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Re: What is the latest on BV7?

fnrd1 — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:27:38 GMT

Well, the technical specifications for the BV-7 are updated on the B&O site. Everything seems as expected, full HD etc.

Now I just need to see and order it...

Koert

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

symmes — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 06:20:29 GMT

Here is a nice article that describes the North/Central America version of BeoVision 7.

http://www.hdtvsolutions.com/BangOlufsenBeoVision7-40Review.htm

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

jk1002 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:35:27 GMT

Yes. This is probably a mistake on the site. Also the description talks about a cinema module which the US BV7 wouldn't need. Then again, the BC2 description talk about DAB for a while now which is Europe only so I am guessing they won't fix that anytime soon.

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

fnrd1 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:48:39 GMT

I can now see the BV7 in the US Video list on the B&O website. http://www.bang-olufsen.com/page.asp?id=330

However it seems the technical specifications link still points to the old Europe BV7 (no full HD etc.)? Am I right? Are they just trying to confuse us or what?

Koert

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

Molotow — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:17:52 GMT

What a great artical.

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

jvezina — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:59:00 GMT

Are the detailed specifications available now as well as the user manual in PDF format ?

Best regards,

Jean Vezina

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

jk1002 — Sat, 19 May 2007 13:57:55 GMT

http://www.mensvogue.com/design/articles/2007/04/bang_olufsen

In case you missed it in the main forum, can't be far out now.

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

moxxey — Tue, 15 May 2007 05:50:42 GMT

Morgan - that's just what B&O dealers in the UK have been telling us for the last couple of months. New all-digital BS3-based chassis. The only issue is, when! No-one knows for sure, even the dealers.

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

Morgan — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:28:49 GMT

All the people are saying that BV7 will have a new chasis based on BS3, at least a reduced version. I hope that they will be right.

Thank you very much.

Regards.

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

jk1002 — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:12:09 GMT

Not sure. But we do keep hearing for a long time that it will use the BS3. Also note the price difference between Europe and US. If you add stand and HDD which I think the BV9 has you get a pricing structure between products that is somewhat realistic giving the BV9 is 10"larger. The BV7 in Europe is priced much lower, more like mid class. Keep in mind overthere they qoute with taxes which can be up to 20%.

Selling the BV7 in the US without full BS3 would be a bad deal, selling it with BS3 in Europe would be too good and throw their pricing structure off.

Again I am just assuming based on what I read and what I heard. I am following this topic for a very long time, it popped up actually 2 or 3 years ago where they (B&O) tried to explain why they don't have LCD TVs in the US.

Lastly, TV standards are very different between countries. The BS3 is mostly designed at controlling an outside box, which is very common for the US while in Europe customers are all after fully integrated tuners.

Will see what happens. Personally I would hope for some sort of BS3 mini system for the US because that would give us more hope that they introduce smaller TVs. Which is not on the horizon I believe.

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

Morgan — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:20:24 GMT

Are you sure about two different versions for USA and Europe? Why?

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

moxxey — Sat, 12 May 2007 16:40:15 GMT

jk1002:
http://www.hedmag.com/The-Latest-The-Best/BANG-OLUFSEN-LCD-TV.asp

Confirms that US BV7 is built on BS3.

Absolutely no-one has said it won't be based around a BS3. However, have you ever seen the size of the BS3 and the BV7-40? You can't simply stick a BS3 on the back of a BV7 - it will be too large and cumbersome (it's already very heavy). What's going to happen is that the BS3 will be integrated in to the chassis. The same TV (with the new chassis) will appear worldwide, but will be launched in the US first.

The most important bit of this entire discussion is when it will be released. In this discussion, someone said 24th of April, but that's been and gone..

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

jk1002 — Sat, 12 May 2007 15:48:00 GMT

http://www.hedmag.com/The-Latest-The-Best/BANG-OLUFSEN-LCD-TV.asp

Confirms that US BV7 is built on BS3.

http://www.nbc.com/The_Apprentice_6/mansion_tour/living_areas-08.shtml

I do not watch Mr Trumps show but it seems they used the BV7 in there.

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

jk1002 — Thu, 10 May 2007 09:07:53 GMT

>>B&O aren't going to produce two different versions of the same TV<<

They did that before though with the Avant. There are significant differences between standards for Europe and US. The economy of scale for the US might be achieved by using the BS3. Everything that we head sofar says that the US BV7 will have the full BS3 functionality while everything we heard about the European one says there is a mini version of it.

I guess we will see but I wouldnt be surprised if US has BS3 to get economies of scale with BV9 and BV4 and Europe works based on a mini BS3 / new chassis not to cause the overlapping product line / pricing issues that the US will have.

If it would be easy to use the same global chassis we in the US would certainly see more TVs like the BC6 which we will probably not.

Cheers

Re: What is the latest on BV7?

jvezina — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:24:51 GMT

"B&O aren't going to produce two different versions of the same TV. Economies of scale dictate against this. There will be one BV7-40, upgraded with a mini BS3 based chassis, improved panel and more. Estimated to be released in August, first in the US and soon after elsewhere."

I notice that members from Europe seem reluctant to see a Beovision 7 with a complete Beosystem 3 integrated inside it. On the contrary, I think that this is a very good thing: HDMI connections, high performance scaler, full surround capabilities, etc. There are so many complaints with the current European version that a major upgrade is certainly welcome.

I will test the TV at the end of May.

Regards,

Jean