Halo and Theatre?

[355f]

Many seem to view the halo as an expensive voleume control with poor battery life.

 

i wonder if experiences are any better with the theatre combo?

 

What will i be able to do with it? will it do what a BR1 will do for example

[Sandyb]

The Halo doesn’t yet have the television control (beyond volume) that it does with the Harmony/Eclipse (if thats what the question was directed at).

 

[NQVHNWI]

Funny enough, Ive just slammed B&O via a Customer Satisfaction Survey on the Halo I purchased a couple of months ago. I did purchase the Halo primarily to control volume via WiFi on the BL90s but its a very under-developed product that could be so much better if B&O put the effort in towards the useability rather than a nice clicky wheel volume controller. With the device right in front of me now…..

1.  Approach and this is the Theatre display automatically shown Photo (Halo1)
2. Press either the < or > and the Theatre asks for a USB stick to be inserted.
3. Volume control indication. No numerical display only a % of a tiny circle. Should match the source display.
4. There is no direct source selection. Swipe up, and you have photo (Halo4) but that is only favourites.
5. From the initial display (Halo1), Swipe down in live TV mode, no TV guide button, no keypad.
6. Swipe down again (Halo3) – Now you can select source
7. When selecting source – say Oppo DVD, you cannot control unless you thumb up back to the display in photo Halo2. Even then, limited controls compared to the BR1
8. Swipe down to the next level, you can decide to go to single or multiple B&O Standby.
9. Whenever you swipe up/down, the screen defaults to Halo1 after 5 seconds – so almost useless?
10. Power. I think for £700, the Halo should have had either a proper (BEO5/6) dock, or as a minimum, a Qi charger as standard. I purchased THE EXACT Qi charger as the B&O one for £13. B&O wanted +£100. Really?

I think the Halo has all the potential to be a killer remote. It just seems to me B&O wanted a bit of high-value tactile hardware out there but with zero consideration to the usefulness or the interaction of a standard customer? Further, given the development of Software over the years, and what has been done with Beoliving Intelligence, how difficult would it be for B&O to include an IPconfig page to configure your own Halo settings (without BLI) or just drag and drop from the iOS app?

B&O just didn’t put any real effort into this.

[Carolpa]

the Halo doesn’t control the Theatre?

not correct, it actually does!

sorry MR10%, I saw your photo’s after I logged in to post mine.

[Sandyb]

apologies, honest mistake!

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