[quote user="355f"] The picture is dark to offer a better black- as a result you gte black crush and lose all the detail. [/quote] I agree with this. One of my friends tends to use my PS3 around my place and notices a massive difference between his LG and my BV7-40 (MKIII). The BV7 doesn't seem to process dark screens well within PS3 games

[quote user="benjnz"] Oh well hopefully they'll get is sorted and the sw will settle down. [/quote] Yep. If my MKIV wasn't crashing, too, I could live with this HD/SD balance on the basis I'll watch more HD content in the future. MKIV isn't crashing anywhere near as often as it did when I first received the TV - it can go more

[quote user="jjcox"] What an absolutely lovely light on the ceiling! Looks as if you can actually move it from the table to the chairs? Fantastic! [/quote] You should be able to get one of those from: http://www.twentytwentyone.com/ Take a skim around, if you want to replicate this look, this place is a good start. No, it's not my company

[quote user="beolife"] Just a thought, but it could be the new HD freeview module is probably using a new chipset for the HD which may not be very well tweaked for SD. [/quote] But that wouldn't explain why Sky SD channels, such as BBC1, offer a poorer picture on the MKIV than they did on the MKIII. Something has changed between the MKIII

[quote user="elephant"] conclusion from my youngest son was that the SONY was sharpening the upscaling and that is what gave it the nice clean image certainly the SONY had a myriad of options for controlling picture quality that we spent well over an hour "playing" with [/quote] One thing that came to mind is the whole Beosystem

Done and it works. How absolutely bonkers is that?! Not intuitive at all. Well, at least it's sorted now.

BTW Simon, I wouldn't judge a TV based on the best possible image that could be displayed on-screen. A Blu-ray will look good on ANY modern 1080P TV, whether it's a Sony, Pioneer or Panasonic. The true definition of a picture is the day-to-day use, whether that's through the supplied DVB-HD 'Freeview' module or attached Sky. Again

[quote user="elephant"] And then my delivery date slipped by a month and I got busy and had not been checking Beoworld ... [/quote] I didn't see that at first. By a month? How did it slip by a month? I can understand a week or two...! On a sidenote, my dealer uses Sky HD boxes to deliver BBC HD on their TVs and, as you can imagine, the

But I'm assuming this 'wonderfully engineered' BV10 won't come with a BS3. So it's basically a BV8-40 in a new shell?

[quote user="elephant"] BV7-40 Again, similar distortions as the BV8-40 were apparent around BV7-40 menu's text. Not as poor at the BV8-40. And standard def freeview through a set-top box was still chunky/blocky in parts. [/quote] I'm not going to go through my entire thoughts again, but the BV7-40 MKIV is *worse* for standard def