[quote user="Dave"] Well said daniel! [/quote] Fair enough - I'm happy to be corrected, I have no particular axe to grind, it was more a comment on the current pace of modern TV (and broadcast format) development. Just out of interest (I notice Trolle upgraded from his BV7-40 MKI within the 5 year period) how many members still have and

[quote user="Daniel"] [quote user="Puncher"] Remind me to ask you in 5 years if you still have the same LCD TV. [/quote] I never sell a B&O, and I promise you I will not sell a 20k € TV after 5 years. [/quote]

Remind me to ask you in 5 years if you still have the same LCD TV.

[quote user="Daniel"] [quote user="beolion"] My 7-40 was a bad production, a lot of parts have been replaced, and at last (?) it crashed and the dealer could not turn on the TV again. I also had SW updates made several times, and it must be frustrating to be a dealer at B&O with all those SW problems. [/quote] This kind of information

It was very common on Sony TV's of the last year or so - although, if I remember correctly they denied it was ever a problem although many folk returned there TV's to their dealers becuase of it. There was a lengthy thread about it on the Whathifi forum (W4500 sets I seem to recall). Start by setting contrast, brightness and colour midway and

Do I take it you've fiddled with all the picture controls and still can't get a picture to your satisfaction?

This has been discussed before - this THREAD discusses the issue in quite some depth and you may find it informative if you haven't read it before.

[quote user="Puncher"] [quote user="mfirst"] how do you rip your DVDs to a hard drive? more details please???????? [/quote] As mentioned earlier, AnyDVD and CloneDVD will do just about anything you can think of to do with an original copy. [/quote] ImToo probably allows more "save" format options than CloneDVD

[quote user="mfirst"] how do you rip your DVDs to a hard drive? more details please???????? [/quote] As mentioned earlier, AnyDVD and CloneDVD will do just about anything you can think of to do with an original copy.

Also B&O need to make test samples available to the press for review! Below is a post from the Audio Editor in response to a thread on Whathifi forum about the BV8-40. Posted on Aug 26, 2009, 9:00 PM Andrew Everard Re: the bang-olufsen beovision 8-40 As ever, we request – if B&O chooses to supply, then we will test... Consulting Editor