Beomedia 1 has now been "tested" by many of us for an extensive period of time. The Apple TV has taken the rest of the world with storm. Clearly the latter has far greater upgrade potentiality and this puts us B&O devotees in a strange kind of vacuum. We don't want to leave the wonderful B&O environment but we can't deny that things are getting more advanced elsewhere in the media-universe. So what can we expect from Bang & Olufsen? A Beomedia 2 that will be able to compete? This has been discussed several times before (whithout much detailed info), but maybe there now is some new insider info. Please let me know what you know (or dream of).

/Munin

For the time being i use an Apple Mac Mini as my media center; b&o doesn't cope for what i want, till it has a new reliable up-to-date product i'll use mac mini.

I'll wait for the development of a the BeoMedia2 and see what new feature it will bring us.

 

The next BV7 is rumored to be able to control the AppleTV (via PUC) but still Beomedia 2 is what I'm hoping for. But maybe this is just wishful thinking, maybe B&O is already too far behind in the media-race.

/M 

Just because a product takes the world by storm doesn't mean it's a good product. Probably means it's a cheap product! Since when do B&O folks follow the crowds?

Apple TV is a different device from BeoMedia 1, made for somewhat different purposes; it's unfair to compare the two.  ATV's main point is to play video/TV information on a different screen from one's computer, hence the "TV" in the product's name.  BeoMedia 1 doesn't offer video.  (Unless the US version is different from other countries??)  We can wish that a future BeoMedia would offer video, but I highly doubt that feature will be offered any time soon. Copyright lawsuits would be too high of a possibility.   Look what happened to Kaleidescape.  They spent 3 years fighting a lawsuit from the DVDCCA, finally winning, but I'm sure there was a lot of expense!  

I'm not saying BeoMedia 1 is my favorite B&O product.  But I would buy it in a heartbeat if I could!  It is really a nice unit, and it does what it does with finesse.  My only complaint would be that they used a Windows platform for the OS, and I don't trust Microsoft.  But anyway, BeoMedia is easy to use, stores and plays back music and photos, and has a huge database of internet radio stations.  And really, ATV isn't that great of a product anyway, from the things I've read about it. 

Maybe I'm the wrong person to make such comments, since I'm more of a music person and not really a TV/movie person. If I do watch a movie, I want it to be really good quality, not a silly compressed file...

I don't have any gossip about future products, but if I could dream, I'd want the next generation of BeoMedia to have a terrabyte of storage and a disk slot, so I could import full-quality CDs into it, instead of having to go through the computer and use compression. 

Cheers! 

Aj