you newbies , ha i recall the days of the original beoworld teemz forum , no avatars , no sigs , nothing but it was still grate fun ! any chance of seeing that ??

concerning trip's comments re the appletv , maybe he'd like to consult alex or sound proof , who seem to love it other users too - in this thread - http://forum.beoworld.org/forums/thread/114359.aspx

i don't think they're out of reach of the common man , i just think the competition has not only caught up , but utterly surpassed bno particularly in the way the whole av world has developed it's all technocodswallop today not the hand built engineering quality that bno could play on in the old days with turntables and other machines with

one design trait i DO note is jj was very horizontal and dl is very vertical interesting.. hmm...

i've always been a rabid jacob jensen fan , imo lewis' stuff is dull and lacks jj's magical genius , with jj it was not just what you saw , it was the extra depth - the hidden features - like the brushed aluminium flaps hiding all the secondary controls on the old beocentres , beomasters and beocords i'd bring jj back asap or his spiritual

they probably put the increases down to r&d costs putting a silver frame on a panasonic plasma must be a real technological achievement for the bno team.. bno need more technicians and less designers it's the entire look and feel of a product they concentrate too much on the 'look' and not enough on how stupid you 'feel' when

i was recently seriously thinking of upgrading the front room tv from an avant to the bv9 unfortunately i was put off after finding that the inbuilt hd recorder can only record the channel you are watching so a tv costing £12,000 is incapable of recording one channel and watching another !!??? vhs in 1980 had that capability !! this is what i

thing is , it's only 1920 x 1080 res , so at 103" it probably looks pretty awful why bother ?

yes , they focus on making as much money as possible with the least amount of innovation it's the stick a metal frame on and charge double and hope nobody notices syndrome

the most ostentatious and hideous tv i've ever seen was the loewe covered with swarovski crystals i think it cost aboot £5k as opposed to £1k for the standard model now that IS a rip off - the crystals probably cost 50p each !!