Puzzled by your Airport base station being slow - you might want to look into the settings. I've got liquid internet and streaming video throughout the apartment after I installed mine. Look at placement also. iRed is Leopard compatible, it's just their interaction with iPod Touch that they are working to sort out. Here's a nice add-on program

Well, your amplifiers are in the speakers, which means that factor is out of the equation. Since the BV8 doesn't have a surround module, you're then left with choosing the best path from the dvd/cd-player to the speakers, which means that you should run the TV sound (from your STB) to the BC2, and connect your speakers to it -- and I do believe

I currently use my Mac Mini to play music (itunes) via Airport Express with Airtunes connected to my BC9500 which I love to use and the sound quality is ok for me. I have read with interest of the last few months about the iRed software and think that it is a fantastic idea and would like to take advantage of this facility. My Mac Mini is operating

Full-HD is for projectors and VERY large flat panels, it's unnecessary and actually obstructive on screens under 60-50" - upscaling of SD and DVD gets messed up, and those formats are going to be around for a long, long time. HD-Ready is the perfect format for flatscreens in this size range. (Adding: I see that Mr Katzmaier and I are in agreement

moxxey: Yes, you're right. Indeed, SD-based DVDs are not great upscaled on the 1080p screen. Full-HD is a miss, a shot in the dark. Only relevant if you have access to Full-HD sources, which from now on is Blu-ray discs. Downloading a fully enabled BD production, with full transparency audio channels, would require a lot of time, meaning the format

Blu-ray will be a niche format. Downloads to harddisk are taking over, and fast -- in maximum two year's time this will be ubiquitous. (And Apple-TV users are enjoying the convenience today -- though there are many other providers offering their own downloads.)

Think you want to go TV>A/V>CD (or whatever you want to listen to on the BS3200. That works for me.

camshaft: However, I still consider a synthesizer a "real instrument". Austin, I'm a great fan of the music of Yes, Laurie Anderson, Pet Shop Boys, Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten ... Which means you can breathe easy when it comes to my opinion on synth's. But I don't like synth tracks that have been mechanically generated

All they have to do is play a minute from selected portions of the Salonen/LA Philharmonic Rite of Spring if they want to demonstrate what the BL5s can do -- those bass beats push plate glass windows as if they were balloons. There's quite a bit of good house and trance -- what they're putting above is home-made. The trouble with generated music

Went to the official site, and was assaulted by some truly detestable synthesizer music completely lacking in acoustic temperament (which is a way of describing music played by something that is alive.) Why does B&O use such execrable music? Can you remember when they launched the BeoSound 3, and made a movie for it, with music that could be used