Given the need with Blu-ray to frequently update firmware,what provision is B & O making to address this requirement?

[quote user="Beolab"] [quote user="TerryM"] [quote user="Beolab"] Pioneer BD 80 and Denon´s new BD transport are the best. Then Sony S350 and S550 are placed at second. And the new Oppo BD with the Anchor Bay chip i think will be a hard one to beat! [/quote] How can one place the Sony S350/550 ahead of their flagship

[quote user="Beolab"] Pioneer BD 80 and Denon´s new BD transport are the best. Then Sony S350 and S550 are placed at second. And the new Oppo BD with the Anchor Bay chip i think will be a hard one to beat! [/quote] How can one place the Sony S350/550 ahead of their flagship BDP-S5000ES? It is a superb player,which is rated in some quarters

Have you,or an engineer,tested the signal strength received by your aerial? Has an upgrade of aerial been suggested as an option for improved Freeview reception? If you are definitely in a poor reception area,then Freesat would appear to be your only option if you do not wish to subscribe to Sky. Of the Freesat boxes available,comparative tests in AV

Is there a possibiility that B & O will incorporate in the BV4,and BV7,the Neo? plasma,and (LED backlit) LCD,panels announced by Panasonic,and Samsung respectively at the recent CES? As for an integrated Blu-Ray player,unless particular attention has been paid to SD DVD replay quality,will it not be retrograde step re one's dvd collection?

I was given to understand that for a 50" panel,at a 3-3.5 metre viewing distance,it would be difficult to discern a difference between 720p,and 1080p,images. As for the alleged poor picture quality of SD material on a1080p panel surely this is dependent on the quality of the sources. The SDDVD PQ produced by my Oppo 983 into my Pioneer LX608 is

9 LEE: I wouldn't get too caught up in 720, 1080, camera etc etc. I have a 720p non-camera 'leper' BeoVision 9 and frankly it's absolutely amazing. The difference between the 720 and 1080 panels is minimal and nowhere near as dramatic as people like to wax lyrical about. Do Sky transmit in 1080 ? - nope... If you can grab a great deal

One cannot consider a loudspeaker in isolation from it's accompanying amplifier. The longstanding valves versus solid state debate? Which gives a "truer" sound? A given speaker can sound great with one and inferior with the other. As to how to save Bang & Olufsen--is there a magic answer? They are producing high cost equipment for

Would a more realistic alternative to the B & O be the Jacob Jensen T80?

Is the Maplin DECT Wireless Phone Line Extender(£49.99) of any use?