mr_anders_son: I heard 5800€ I was told over £4000 in the UK, which sounds about right if you convert the EUR down to pounds sterling. It's going to have to be a rather compelling device for me to justify a £4000+ purchase to play back compressed audio. I'm going to pay a visit to my dealer soon to see if I can find out more

I'm not sure how effective BeoCare are, exactly. I don't know who is responding to the incoming emails. I had major issues with my BV8 installation which went on for nearly 4 weeks - I received one reply from BeoCare and nothing since. It was only due to my local dealers perseverance that we got it sorted in the end. I don't know how B&O's

jk1002: First I am think "here we go again". Too tempted to ignore and not to chime in. Again. I don't think the BVs namely the 4 and 9 range are for people who care about money. Disagree. People who have this money aren't stupid. They understand about 'investments'. My landlords are classic examples. They now own 10 properties

Stars: ..but I believe it would be a good investment for the future. How on earth can it be classed as an investment? An investment, by nature, is a commodity that generally rises in value or you believe the risk taken will result in a possible rise - thus you'd make money from your investment. Think fine wine, gold and so on. Also, by definition

Weebyx: So i was wondering if we could help B&O out.. /Weebyx I'll help them out if the bother to ask me to offer some assistance instead of responding with either 'no-one else has the problem...' or 'we're still looking in to it'. If I sold my BV7-40, BL9's, 7.4 and BL2, I could buy a Kuro and have a lot of spare cash

Grrr! My BV7-40 is turning off more than ever recently. Had a few friends around last night watching the England match...TV switches off (and it feels like ages - embarrassing, too). Again this morning. Ridiculous. Weebyx - we ought to be moving away from B&O and not considering 'supporting' them further by upgrading to a more expensive

Weebyx: What puzzles me is that Peter Pans BV7-40 MKIII, who has had the SW 4.24 upgrade, isn't showing any build version, my tv i showing build 344 and H8 as 4.17, DVE FEP SW as 4.17 and PW SW as 4.17, mind you that i have had mine downgraded from 4.24, but what puzzles me is that the PW SW isn't showing the same SW version as the DVE FEP SW

Jez: You would just use the PS3 for DVD's. Of course you can. However, what I was trying to imply was that if you wanted a B&O DVD player for your setup, you have to spend thousands more. 355f - I disagree with you slightly. Although you're right that upscaled SD-DVDs are very good these days, the colours you get in a Blu-ray are much enhanced

Alex: the BV4 + BS3 combo really is streets ahead in terms of picture and sound... True, no-one is denying that. However, realistically you need BV4-50, BS3, BL10 to make this combo happen. With the recent price increases, this is approx £13K in the UK. That's £13K for a plasma and mono centre speaker. However 'streets ahead'

BTW, I used to think the colours on the BV4-50 were better than the BV7-40, but my dealer has the BV9, BV4 and BV7-40 MKIII next to each other and we were watching a few HD pictures the other day. Both my dealer and myself decided that the BV7-40 was actually more 'natural' looking. Colours are better. The plasma showed reds more intensely.