Ar yes I agree with Symmes, that was a Samsung player that looked identical to a Samsung player - now that was a total disgrace!A bit dishonest of B&O that one  not funny really is it?

BeoVision A5... Too late on the market... and incorporating CDI.. 

BeoSound 6

All HDR devices.

BeoVision 1-link only

I would personally put Beomedia1 on this list. Although i use it nealy every day, the capabilities of this thing are limited for a 2000 euro product at its launch. B&O has somehow accepted their failure by moving quickly to BM5, ignoring all the Beomedia1 customers...

Paul Winn wrote:

2. My DVD1 - Total garbage

the THREE (yes, count them) DVD1s I tried recently ...

the HDR I had on loan from the dealer ... I could not get it to work consistently

or it could not re-program me 😂 in the two weeks I had it

and my lovely 5000 suite ... only because within 12 months of buying it B&O worked out the MCL was a dead-end and switched to ML 

it peeved me enough that I did not buy any B&O in the nineties [:'(]

The startup time of the DVB-HD module. a half minute, really!

I B&O's defense i have read on these forums that it has been made better on the BV10 with af software update.

Forgot to mention BeoPlayer (anybody using it?). There has been many updates since the initial version, but no significant improvement. On the contrary, the latest version is not even compatible with Serenata since it does not allow new files to be added in the phone!?

There are many other issues with this software, which is totally outdated and not user-frienly. I'm not even mentioning the BetNetMusic tool, which makes the software so slooow!

Griebel wrote:

Well, on the even more recent BV 7-55 3D, the DVB-HD still takes 30 s to start!

Agree on the irritant, however, in my view, B&O allows for two different concepts.

-One to have "everything built in"
- the other one to purchase core function (i.e. panel) and then add DVB, BluRay etc separately.

I would vote for the second: B&O "core equipment" outlasts built-in peripheral equipment which has a higher technological turnover rate. In my view, best strategy to avoid product obsolesence and the irritants described above is to integrate these peripherals with PUC and control with Beo4 or Beo6.

Griebel wrote:

Forgot to mention BeoPlayer (anybody using it?). There has been many updates since the initial version, but no significant improvement. On the contrary, the latest version is not even compatible with Serenata since it does not allow new files to be added in the phone!?

There are many other issues with this software, which is totally outdated and not user-frienly. I'm not even mentioning the BetNetMusic tool, which makes the software so slooow!

I am surprised BeoPlayer still exists. I used it initially with my Beosound 5 but got fed up using a poor interface and coping with slow response times. Clearly, BeoPlayer was not B&Os finest hour...