Irrespective of whether I think a product is poor or performs well, I've had so many sw-related problems with B&O equipment since I took delivery of my BV7-40 MKIII. I'd say the BS5/BM5 combo can be flaky. I've had to reboot this on at least 10 occasions and it's only been with me for 3 weeks. Since I had this BV70-40 MKIV installed

My BV7-40 has never created a proper link-room connection since I had the MKIV installed. The link-room TV results in a picture that is so poor it's unwatchable. However, it's not the link-room TV as the internal modulator will display an analogue signal. It's only via link-rom. Now I'm getting red and different coloured lines all over

[quote user="dkresz"] There is nothing superior about the latest iTunes Plus media files (or any other counterpart 256 kbps audio files). [/quote] Does anyone actually READ through a forum discussion before giving their opinion? No-one said that, as a rule, the new iTunes Plus audio tracks are now 'better' or more 'superior'

I have the BS4 and BL3 speaker setup and it's recommend. 9/10. BS4 is superb, well-built and designed. The BL3 are good enough for most homes (it's difficult to have a room too large for the BL3s) and, due to the ALT speakers, distribute audio widely through the room. You can get a good mint second hand pair of BL3s for around £1500, too

[quote user="rednik"] At least they have seen sense on the latest TVs and made the TV command usefull again. At last with the 8-40 you can assign the digital tuner to "TV" and use DTV, and VMEM for set top boxes [/quote] Yep, but as I found this affects link-room TVs. If you assign your DTV or Sky box to 'TV', press 'TV'

[quote user="seethroughyou"] but the a CD is mathematically lossless and uncompressed form. it is a mathematical clone of the studio master file whereas the itunes plus is a compressed from the master with a considerable loss of data so itunes plus will never ever be anywhere near as good as a lossless format... [/quote] Not always seethroughyou

For me, probably the BL9s. Best all-round speaker in the range. I've just replaced a pair of BL5s for BL9s and I think the sound might be better from the 9s. Why? They don't need calibrating. Set them to 'free standing' and they might out-perform calibrated BL5s (in a room where you have wooden flooring and old wooden windows). Worst

[quote user="Puncher"] I understand what you're saying but aren't iTunes plus still only 256Kbps compressed *.aac files? My concern regarding files ripped specifically by the publisher for use in iTunes, iPods etc. would be that they are specifically EQ'd for portable systems, PC speakers etc. [/quote] But you can argue the same

[quote user="TripEnglish"] Boot it in windows and use IE to go to the DIVX website and download the codec pack. Install it on the underlying computer then go back into BeoSound 5 mode. Now video should work brilliantly on the BeoMaster 5. Admittedly I have way more DVD rips than HD, but it all looks great. [/quote] If that's the case,

Situation seemed to fix itself. A couple of BM5 reboots (at one stage, I saw a Windows 'this program is not responding' warning on my TV ;) later and all is fine and working again. I'd be very impressed with this BS5 setup if it had a two-way remote facility. At the moment it's a bit like using a single CD player! You go over to the