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Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

PhilLondon — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:18:39 GMT

Trip, I suppose you mean half of BS5+BM5, otherwise that'll be too good to be true!

Do you know if it'll just do music, of if it'll have some multimedia capabilities (video, photos), like the BM5.

I also guess, that it will be a product reserved for people do not have a system currently due to the impossibility to integrate it, until they come up with the ML-Beonet converter.

Philippe

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

TripEnglish — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:11:32 GMT

About half BeoSound 5.

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

koning — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:57:19 GMT

What price must we think for the Encore

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TripEnglish — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:54:29 GMT

Last I heard, the adaptor will surface toward the end of summer/early autumn.

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

Electrified — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:29:41 GMT

PhilLondon:

I'd really like to see what the new CAT7 Beonet is going to be like in term of features, and how they are going to interface it with the "old" MasterLink.

P.

Yup, me too. Perhaps it can be done wirelessly with an adaptor or two.

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

PhilLondon — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:26:56 GMT

Electrified:
From what I understand, it doesn't have Masterlink.

I'd really like to see what the new CAT7 Beonet is going to be like in term of features, and how they are going to interface it with the "old" MasterLink.

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

Electrified — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:22:58 GMT

beolion:
Encore must be masterlink enabled first before I would consider it.

From what I understand, it doesn't have Masterlink.

I don't know for real, as it's from gleaming this and other forums, so it's pretty much based on rumours and murmurs.

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

beolion — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:57:20 GMT

Beobuddy:

But I'm probably one of a few who only have a BM5. So the chances that B&O changes this, is unfortunatelly probably zero.

I do also only have a BM5, actually, I am the only customer at my dealer who only have the BM5, so there are only a very few out there of us :)
I would also like to keep the navigation option on my TV's.

I kind of liked the idea of combining BM5 with the Encore, wonder if B&O have thought about that? Encore must be masterlink enabled first before I would consider it.
Going to be interesting to see what is going to happen in 2011 in the digital area at B&O.

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

BeoFab — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:48:47 GMT

Beobuddy:

@ Elephant. Thank you. Feels good when it's appreciated.

The only thing which holds me of purchasing the BS5 is that this way of controlling disappears.

I would rather like to have both options.

But I'm probably one of a few who only have a BM5. So the chances that B&O changes this, is unfortunatelly probably zero.

Probably I am wrong but you could have both features with the new BS5 encore since it does not need to be connected to a Beomaster 5

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

Beobuddy — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:19:56 GMT

@ Elephant. Thank you. Feels good when it's appreciated.

The only thing which holds me of purchasing the BS5 is that this way of controlling disappears.

I would rather like to have both options.

But I'm probably one of a few who only have a BM5. So the chances that B&O changes this, is unfortunatelly probably zero.

No why ?

Olof — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 05:11:22 GMT

Last year I renovated my holiday flat and let install a CAT7 based "Masterlink" system. In the living room I have a BeoSound 5 and in the kitchen a vintage BeoLab 2000. It works perfect, I have my homecountry radio stations in each room and/or my favourite CD´s which i copied via iTunes to the BeoMaster5.

Up till now I dont know any other system, which can combine this digital music with high grade of design.

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

elephant — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 04:32:00 GMT

Beobuddy:
I've taken some pictures and screendumps to illustrate.

Thank you so very much.

That's truly fantastic -- the best illustration of the capabilities -- when it was a first announced I read the manual, but your photos bring it all to life and are so much better.

Really appreciate you taking the time to do this for us -- I feel these pictures should be in a FAQ !!

Re: Should B&O get out of the digital media market and concentrate on what they do best?

Beobuddy — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:11:54 GMT

So I think B&O suits me well.

All the critiques about "it's just a pc with windows on it". What about all the other mediaplayers out there? They all have the same principal. A (kind of) pc mainboard shrinked to the least possible with mostly some kind of Linux version on it.

I think it's a smart black box. I haven't seen another mediaplayer which can update it's windowssoftware, ML board software and it's own BIOS from the mainboard almost simultainiously on automatically base.

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Beobuddy — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:03:28 GMT

If you go to the "List Root", you'll get this:

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Beobuddy — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 17:01:43 GMT

Some options from the menu.

Mind the 'Random On" option, which isn't available if you have the BS5 connected.