LifeStyle:

If so, will it be available until the end of this year? I wonder if B&O will produce a 10-50, who would then buy the 7-55 or the 4-50..?

If they stick with Samsung edge lit panels then it would have to be 55", there isn't a 50".

Moxxey posed the teaser about the purpose of the BS3 ... I would have said:

• integrated support for projector
• sound stage rotation (part of the above) 

but what else ? Apart from Raeuber's rumour that is

Raeuber:

I was told a hard disc is coming before christmas, but only for the TVs based on Beosystem 3

I see there's a little questioning about the advantages of the BeoSystem 3. They're the same as they've always been, but the most surprising is that no one is perceiving the blatant PQ difference between the BV7 & BV10!

One interesting thing about my shop versus the others I've seen is that I play a single source on all the TVs at the same time. Gives the shop a nice calm look. Anyways, you can easily look at a single wall and see a BV7-40, BV7-55, and BV10-40. The PQ on the BV10-40 & 46 is no where near what it is on the BV7-40 & 55. This is partially due to the edge-lit v. back-lit difference and partially due to the inclusion of the full BeoSystem 3. Colors on the BV10 are not as accurate, blacks are no-where near as deep or nuanced, and motion is significantly choppier. Still better than its Samsung brothers & sisters, but can't hold a candle to the BV7-55. Of course if you're watching two different things it's harder to see that difference.

Back to the BeoSystem 3:

7.2 v. 5.1

Dual viewing mode with two separate sound stages

More source inputs

More PQ horsepower (this is the most valuable in my opinion)

Dual link master

AST

Mux out

All that being said, I've repeatedly argued for a scaled down version like the one built into the BV10 or BV8-40 to be sold as a standalone product for 3rd party screens. So I'm not saying this to somehow counter anyone who's commented on its usefulness. Many people don't need the home cinema related advantages it offers. 

TripEnglish:

One interesting thing about my shop versus the others I've seen is that I play a single source on all the TVs at the same time. Gives the shop a nice calm look. Anyways, you can easily look at a single wall and see a BV7-40, BV7-55, and BV10-40.

IMHO that is exactly how all B& stores should be set up!

I think I only saw one store like that once and it was not in Australia -- (somewhere in Asia I think, my memory is failing !!!)

So I applaud you Trip on doing it the right way to make the decision making process easy

dual link master

um what's that ?

(being lazy today sorry)