Hopefully Peter will be along later to post his picture of an extraordinary number of Beograms all lined up! Simon

[quote user="Stonk"] ....when you see something on Ebay that you previously had no interest in buying and try to figure out a way to work it into your system. You buy it anyway and it just sits in the spare room. [/quote] That could be me you are talking about! I already have two pairs of Beovox' s I don't use (in addition to the five

I didn't draw the same conclusion from the article that you did! B&O now own the patents but it will be interesting to see whether they have done this to maintain a competetive advantage or if the technology will start popping up everywhere like ICEPower amplifiers or (many years ago) Dolby HX Pro. It sounds like they are already licencing it

I'd love to see a thief climbing out of a window with an Avant on his back!

Adoption won't become widespread until there is a clear industry standard and that's a long away. Most Tv output is still made and watched in SD and not HD because of cost and bandwidth issues and this will apply x10 to 3D Avatar cost over $200 million to make and the costs will stay sky high for years to come so 3Dtv will remain a niche product

Thanks to everyone for the excellent replies to this thread! As a final postcript I checked through my Amazon account this afternoon. In the two months since subcribing to a Spotify premium account which in theory makes it less necessary to own CD's, I have downloaded 2 albums via paid-for MP3 and purchased a further 14 on CD, which is way ahead

Another 40-something bloke here! My father has B&O at home but it was always out of my price range when I was grew up. I spent many years trying various combinations of new and second hand kit without ever being very happy with what I had, then around 3 years ago bought a second hand pair of Beovox S30's on a whim and the rest is history. There

I love the fact that thay are doing something different with laptop design as most 'designer' PC laptops haven't gone much beyond the purely cosmetic like fancy case design. I think this laptop is aimed squarely at environments where a desktop PC/Monitor wouldn't work in design terms rather than as a truly portable machine, and given

John Have you by any chance been waiting a very long time to make a post like that? Simon

[quote user="John"] I agree that in the future we will not own "New music" in the sense that we do now. The advances in miniaturised storage will make it unnecessary and people are also used to tapping into a common pool for entertainment. Something will be lost however, there are some who like to own physical copy of performances