[StephenJCW]

Cant comment on B&O Radio or Stage with Mozart support.

I can confirm you can use the Stage as a stand alone speaker without turning on the screen. Both the Beovision Contour (aka Stage) and Beovision TV (aka LG C2) appear as Airplay sources on our various Apple devices. They are quite responsive; taking a few seconds to start streaming from when selected; whereas our old BV14 with Android TV would take a good 5 minutes to start streaming (if at all).

[StephenJCW]

Our Contour is coming up to being a year old. No burn in or other faults.

As per the LG instructions, we simply leave it plugged in and it completes pixel maintenance… after we switch off the TV.

We went from a BV14 (already 4K) to the Contour (also 4K plus OLED) and it was a huge leap in picture quality. Especially impressive on any Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos programming.

[StephenJCW]

Hi Steph. Yes indeed we have the silver aluminium frame with light oak speaker cover. We got silver so that it stood out from the slate floor in our living room. The other option of the anthracite frame (and floor stand) would just vanish against the floor and window with garden behind.

The aluminium frame is quite luxurious, not at all flimsy, but it is a satin finish, not a mirror finish like on our old BV14. If the TV image is especially bright then a diffuse colour is reflected on the frame, but until you point it out, all it does is slightly extend some of the colour beyond the screen (it’s a very diffused reflection, that blurs with the screen edge). If I really concentrate on finding the reflection, I only notice it’s on the top edge, during bright images.

I don’t think of it as a design fault. But if we had a light floor, and the contour was against a solid wall then sure, anthracite may be a better option.

[StephenJCW]

Moved from a BV14-40 with motorised floor stand, and BL6000s, to a BV Contour 48 with the rotating floor stand, almost a year ago.

The Contour gives us:

• Far superior picture, with increased size, and picture quality (especially HDR), plus much more responsive (the BV14 was notorious for how slow it was to turn on, or not turn on at all).
• Comparable sound, without all that extra cabling to the BL6000s. It’s surprising how much cleaner it looks, and how much easier it is to clean around the Contour – we now don’t have any cabling on the floor (or any visible cabling at all). The sound quality of the Stage is equivalent (if not better) than the old setup.
• Comparable control of remote devices (Apple TV…) using the one Beoremote 1 using HDMI CEC, as we used to have using PUC on the BV14. We migrated across our Beoremote 1s from the BV14 to the Contour (our installer said it is very traditional for B&O owners to carry something across from the old to new setup).

The only aspects I miss from the BV14 are:

• Motorised floor stand. But the Contour is extremely well balanced, and takes no effort to rotate (one finger, which to visitors is almost as impressive as the motorised floor stand).
• Electronic curtains and B&O logo when the BV turned on (assuming the BV14 turned on). But you can remove the LG logo from the Contour display, visitors are none the wiser that it’s a LG screen.

I don’t miss Android TV from the BV14 at all. It was a major disappointment from Day  1, notoriously buggy and we are very happy to see it gone.

All in all extremely happy with the Contour – it is a very high quality, integrated TV that is hard to find anywhere else other than B&O. Like all great B&O designs it even looks great switched off.

I am sure the Theatre is better again (you would hope so for the extra cost). But the move from a 40” to 48” screen was enough for us, and life is so much easier without all the extra cabling.

Sorry for being late to this conversation.

[StephenJCW]

We have a Beovision Contour – which is the Stage with a C2, in an integrated B&O stand. We received a LG remote (it comes in the C2 box), but have never used it. The BR1 controls everything on the C2, via HDMI CEC passing through the Stage. There is a B&O app you download from the LG App Store after that it’s quite robust.

[StephenJCW]

Sorry for being late to respond, but I suspect it was waiting for a PIN to unlock. I have a BV14 40 as well and notice that sometimes it doesnt display a screen while waiting for the PIN – perhaps the ultimate in security (if not unintended).

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