After the lengthy debate about the BeoVision 7 costing up to seven times more than it's rivals, and how B&O need to install freeview to UK supplied versions at least - Bang & Olufsen have come up with their own innovative solution.

Freeview will be 'compulsory' in all BeoVision 7's as of March 1st 2008.

'Hooray' i hear you say. Well, maybe not quite. Yes, it will be compulsory - and you will be charged £400 for it, taking the already slightly high average retail price from £6,550 to £6,950.

9 LEE:

'Hooray' i hear you say. Well, maybe not quite. Yes, it will be compulsory - and you will be charged £400 for it, taking the average retail price from £6,550 to £6,950.

Gulp. Yes, my BV7-40 MKIII shipped with the Freeview module as default and, yes, this is now factored in to the price of the TV in the UK. Isn't it funny how we have to pay extra for simply watching TV :)

9 LEE:

After the lengthy debate about the BeoVision 7 costing up to seven times more than it's rivals, and how B&O need to install freeview to UK supplied versions at least - Bang & Olufsen have come up with their own innovative solution.

Freeview will be 'compulsory' in all BeoVision 7's as of March 1st 2008.

'Hooray' i hear you say. Well, maybe not quite. Yes, it will be compulsory - and you will be charged £400 for it, taking the already slightly high average retail price from £6,550 to £6,950.

in that case i will say ta ta simply for the price (welcome  to rip off Britain )

Puncher:

Still £400 is a bargain when it costs less than £50 anywhere else.

no it is the expensive material they use to wrapped -up possibly a samsung free view

sinuhe:

Will it still be an add-on (although compulsory) module or is it going to be the only tuner in BV7 in GB?

No, the analogue tuner is still in there. DVB-T is just included as 'standard' in the UK (the BV7-40 already includes it as standard, since the launch). DVB-T is assigned to DTV, analogue to TV.

I have my external Sky HD box assigned to V.MEM.