[quote user="bayerische"]I would be devastated if I had bought a BV5 3-5 years ago, and lost over 12.000 euro on it... [/quote] Well, it must be a paper loss: you only lose if you sell, right?

Pioneer quits TV market and cuts 10,000 jobs Electronics company heads for $1.4bn loss ... [quote user="rednik"] And I haven't even started on the wages for the workers that actually build these things in China or wherever the manufacturer can get the cheapest labour rate. [/quote]

[quote user="Stars"] It is a plain fact that there are wealthy people, cultures and nations that love gold[/quote] Indeed, many buy into gold to hedge their investment portfolios in these difficult times - one could always sell the golden speaker cover, or TV frame, to compensate for the depreciation on the electronic gutts of the product

Indeed, beobuff - they turned the original character to "small", spelled its name with "h" and placed it geographically to "Sturer"!

When I saw what you quoted, Andy, I was horrified at first. (Prematurely) I concluded Fortune rather rudely attempted to relate Kalle and B&O to certain question Hamlet asked himself ...

They are certainly all impressive numbers, a sophisticated collector might though always consider the latest make, ie no. 1500. While BS9000 is not a print, there is certain symetry to that and he who is the last shall be the first ... until they introduce all-black limited version.

I share your frustrations, Simon (went through similar 'experiences' recently) - and, of course, one can only agree with Chris mentioning the current sorry state of things ... pitty as I personally like the BS3 a lot! Still, there's more to the problems according to B&O: BeoSound 3 cannot play files with embedded covers Information valid

Pushkin: Hi - I for many years have been a very serious B&O fan and their products have connected emotionally with me like no other - I remember the magic in July 1998 when I spent my first evening with my brand new BS9000 - and until recently have owned just about every beovision, beolab and beosound created in the last 15 years. .. and I am not

I, being not in your business, think it's great that you and others are retailers etc. participating here on this forum. I'm not sure what they think/can do about this kind of 'anarchy' in Struer, but that's luckily not my problem ... Anyway, whether you work for the company or you are one of its customers, I believe that 2+2 will

I'm quite frankly curious why Pioneer is delivering their screens to customers without such a calibration - especially as it additionally only costs what you stated (which might include the margin of the one who does the calibration) - and thus give up on differentiating themselves perceiveably from their competitors, not to say matching them, as