Synergy:

Selling a TV for upwards of ~ £6K with a suspect picture quality on SD (i.e. still the standard broadcast medium for the short to medium term) is unbelievable / laughable (if not criminal) IMO.

Believe me, it's more than 'suspect'. Unwatchable is my description of a signal on the BV7-40 through analogue or via the DVB-T, at least here in the UK. Anyone who has Sky though would say it was an excellent picture, and they'd be right.

Goes to show though that the BV7-40 has stacks of future potential. It can certainly show and display top quality images, as long as you have the facility to receive them!

Greg:

Synergy:

My BV7/3 went back.

The PQ was totally unwatchable on SD.Plus it had a few other 'niggles'.

Got me a Kuro which is sooo much better.Combined it with a £150 Pioneer upscaling dvd player and the picture quality is superb!

I don't enjoy juggling remotes again though... 

Yes, I went with the Pioneer Kuro too, and I don't regret it. Certainly better picture quality (to my eyes) than B&O's offerings, at least with SD or DVD content, and of course much cheaper - so we can see it as an 'interim' solution and maybe look again at a B&O TV in a few years! I'm not sure the Kuro is massively better than a really good CRT, but it's at least as good, and at a larger screen size.

 

G. 

Yeah I agree if you compare to BV7-40 mk3. BUT it will not beat BV9 

moxxey:

Hi Chris,One thing to add is that I've just been testing 300 this morning, which I have on SD DVD and blu-ray. It's really pixelated on the BV7-40, compared to the BV7-32 - the background is almost like one of those effects where you can turn a picture in to a 'painting'. It's annoyingly pixelated. Bizarrely, the blu-ray version is the same, although a little better. Casino Royale and Layer Cake weren't pixelated at all. Weird. It's the same on the internal DVD player as on the PS3, which implies it's the film.

It's the film. A lot of people get confused by the grain in the original of 300, when testing their HD screens. Just google and you'll find lots of comments to that effect.