I quite agree.

In 2 to 3 years time this tv will hopefully be awesome .

BeoGreg wrote:

Am I wrong saying that Avant early adopters majority didn't have a BV11 before it ? Saying the picture and sound are excellent is one thing, but compared to what ? A 5 years old sony, a 12 years old Avant ?

BeoVision LX5500 from 1991.

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BeoGreg wrote:

Am I wrong saying that Avant early adopters majority didn't have a BV11 before it ?

Saying the picture and sound are excellent is one thing, but compared to what ? A 5 years old sony, a 12 years old Avant ?

Two BV8s which is why I am giving the Avant serious consideration ...

Inhibitors on the decision (apart from cash flow) are how to transition from/integrate with the BV8s -- which is one reason for doing a bunch of wiring simplification that past two weekends.

I have now totally disconnected the RF modulator for link room support - and I have run a split aerial connection to the two BV8s - downside (or is it an upside 🙂) is I have lost Foxtel support in the link room, and unfortunately our preferred channel's signal strength has enough drop-off to become unusable.  I shall have to dig out the RF Modulator's installation instructions, and see if I can simply repurpose it as a signal amplifier ...

And I am looking forward to the official Australian launch next week ... 

A new software update came today with no info(?) but it might have updated with gui on 4k - Im too tired to get a hdmi cable and try with my macbook pro now. I hope it deals with the colour temperature sensor also.  

update 1: Nope, the sensor issue is still apparent, still sucks. Setting room adaptation to basic makes it a little better (I might be wrong). The temperature sensor is not very good - yet - I hope B&O will improve this. My screen is going brighter/darker in crazy ways - very easily to spot on paused images it just goes up and down, up and down... 

update 2: GREAT, there is a GUI/OSD on UHD(4K) now, and electronic curtains(!) BUT pixelated - obviously not 4K rendered but surely FHD OSD - running on native 4K/UHD without any antialiasing (which it has on FHD sources). This makes it choppy/pixelated and I am actually surprised they "cheated" like this but I hope this is just a rush job to have a OSD to show in stores in the mean time instead of nothing. It´s not that bad and not very obvious so I don't think many will even notice - it looks okey but I´d _like_ if it was proper UHD, it should be easy to fix. Picture included below. (NOW I have to sleep! 😴

update 3: okey, 4K is really beautiful! Watched some 4K on youtube and wow it is lovely. Flappo, if you ever find yourself in Båstad this summer, please come by and be positively surprised. Not only by 4K footage but also about the scaling of other sources (which might be better in this software actually). 

update 4: HOME MEDIA is not working anymore. It takes very long to find a DLNA-server if it even does and when it does the TV crashes and reboots - takes about a minute or two. Big issue since I have a lot of media that I access this way. I have just used wifi but I am going to connect a network cable instead anyway. I don't expect it to work better tough. 

update 5: now a boot screen/splash screen with the same flashlight-effect as on beoplay V1 but with the BANG & OLUFSEN logo. Not sure I like it as it was discrete without any logo before - nice and subtle with the moving stand. I would prefer an option to choose if I want the start up logo or not. 

other: My avant 55 won't show my Apple TV in the source list on HDMI1, I have to select it from the Beoremote one to get it to show the source in the source list. If I don't then I can only see the built in sources (TV-TUNER, RADIO, HOMEMEDIA, WEBMEDIA, WEBBRADIO (two B? decide on one spelling), YOUTUBE, SPOTIFY and DEEZER).

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I got the latest software update.  Unfortunately no improvement with the motion issues.  I put on the Star Trek (2009) Bluray and it is still as juddery as ever.  On default settings it actually gives me a headache.  If anyone with an Avant has this Bluray, take a look.  With all the camera movement and people running around it really shows up the problem as clear as day.  (And on any other TV i have, it works just fine. )

i'll wait for mk 3 , thx

Flappo wrote:

i'll wait for mk 3 , thx

Honestly Flappo, you only make me sad nowadays and its just frustrating that you stand in the way of progress. Things are never perfect when they are new, they have to be polished and that is what is happening slowly. mk3 - yes you wait for that but this is software and it can be dealt with.

I wish B&O let their developers talk directly with customers as myself but unfortunately they don't. The only thing I can do is to tell B&O about the things I want to change and then they will forward to the developers. So your mk3 will be better - thanks to us. 

elephant wrote:

We are spreading our love around 😁

 

 

we were in a different suburb picking up an XC60 to test drive and so we walked around the corner to see the new B&O store and take our 3rd look at the Avant

 

 

"Oh look" said she/we, "the store is modelled on the BeoLab 18s" 😂

 

 

 

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BRILLIANT!!!!!!