I don't think the market is stagnating as much as people feared. In the UK, most of the people I describe above make money from the rental market, rather than selling property. My landlords are classic examples. Aged between 45 and 50, eight apartments in Bath, bought for around £50,000 each around 15 years ago, all rented, and their most

My take on this is two-fold: Firstly the problem with B&O equipment is that it can't be interchanged with third-party equipment, which is something that a lot of people like to do. Connect B&W speakers to a Primare AV unit and so on. At least this is the perceived perception - that you need to buy a B&O hifi, speakers and so on, and

Sadly, I think the 'war' is far from won. According to some, Microsoft will announce a XBOX with a built-in HD DVD drive at CES, although Apple is rumoured to be supplying their Mac Pro's with Blu-ray drives. Also, is it Universal and Paramount that only produce HD DVD movies, such as Bourne Ultimatum, which you can't get on Blu-ray

Beobird: If you have really good fronts like the 5's, you don't need a centre to get a nice music image in front of you. A centre is maybe a good option if you prefer surround movies (home-cinema), but B&O doens't have a good centre for the range.. You're right. When I was evaluating the BV4 + BS3 option, one thing that put me off

I would have thought that the dealer will perform this upgrade for you, as it only takes a small amount of time (when my BV7-32 was HD upgraded, they had to perform a SW update, which took less than 20 minutes, if I can remember). You could either pay your dealer to visit you or, if you ask nicely, they may send someone round at their convenience. I'm

Afternoon, Since purchasing my BV7-40 MKIII and my installer damaging my 2m HDMI cable, and replacing it with a 5m cable, I've been wondering if the longer cable may lead to pixelisation issues. However, whilst looking in to this possible problem, I noticed that the new BV7-40 is capable of displaying a 16-bit picture - thanks to the BS3 - but HDMI

Synergy: Selling a TV for upwards of ~ £6K with a suspect picture quality on SD (i.e. still the standard broadcast medium for the short to medium term) is unbelievable / laughable (if not criminal) IMO. Believe me, it's more than 'suspect'. Unwatchable is my description of a signal on the BV7-40 through analogue or via the DVB-T, at

Synergy: The PQ was totally unwatchable on SD.Plus it had a few other 'niggles'. PQ is absolutely fine with SD channels on Sky. They must be upscaled or something, as BBC1 (and others) look fine on the Sky box, but really poor/pixelated through the internal DVB-T. So, Sky HD and blu-ray generates amazing PQ. Sky SD offers decent PQ and SD DVDs

Craig: Last Christmas we purchased a 32" Samsung LCD as a present for our elsedt Son. Looks fine on his Xbox360 games, and as a PC monitor. Try showing an SD source on it and the picture is just plain freaky. Just don't know how else to explain it. After 5 mins of watching it I have had enough. There is life in those old CRT things for some

Graham, once was enough.