10% hit the nail, I belive - the new CEO, Kalle, has to change the direction: The development of the BS5 followed a classic route, where the design was fine tuned by a designer working with the engineers within B&O. B&O will continue to develop their "main" products in the same way, but they have stated that they will not focus on

HDMI: They would have to keep the scart for link room distribution for the time being, so I guess B&O looked at the cost of implementing the HDMI versus the improvements in picture performance and skipped it. Roger

The new BeoVision's will not arrive until 2011/2012 (based on the common digital platform). At the same time we can expect support for 3. party products such as Windows Home Servers, so that customers do not have to move their audio/video content to a B&O product - but will be able to stream it from a WHS to products such as the BS5/BM5. "B&O

"I think this was a question that Lee asked the CEO (or someone!) recently. I think the answer was 'no, as there is no Blu-ray mechanism that will fit the design of the BC2'." Spot on. They could not fit it. A BeoCenter 3 has been, and may even still be, on the launch plan. It would fit nicely with products such as BeoVision 4 and

The BeoLab 7-3 was finalized a long time ago, when we thought it was meant for a 7-46 - but the craving for inches has hit Europe and the 7-55 makes more sense now. The 7-4 and 7-3 should be the default choices for the 7-55, but we are still hoping for a magic touch with the BL10 and the mechanical stand from the BV4-103. Roger

The 7-55 is 'en route' (LED LCD) - will be interesting to see if they scale down the BV4-103 stand to fit the new 7-55 w/BL10. From what I have learned, the "4-103" stand would cost more than 25.000 DKK if they were to release it - perhaps as much as 40.000 DKK... I'm sure Trip has some details. Roger

Trip, Any idea of the price? Roger

This is a well known issue within B&O. The foil can malfunction on serial numbers lower than 20700500 and all serial numbers 94xxxxxx, and should be replaced if this happens. But there are issues with the newer version as well where the touch foil malfunctions or does not function at all due to fault in tolerances in the touch foil (from serial

It comes with motion sensors, too, and looks (sort of) like a flute. A genuine "must have" product for any BeoWorlder. I guess B&O Marketing is looking forward to the launch, as BeoTime will draw window shoppers into stores - a new, but still very B&Oish, look that will work well in any shop window. Roger

B&O completely pulled out of the mobile market after the "Ericsson" incident more than a decade ago. We all "knew" that they would never come back. They changed their approach from just adding a "skin" (to an existing phone) to designing a phone from scratch, and released Serene and Serenata. Even if the Serenata was