Does anyone know why B&O did not make use of a touch screen??

Puncher: XP embedded is everywhere - your life (and certainly your money) may even depend upon it. Some medical systems, widespread use in Industrial automation, POS, ATM's, among others, all use XP embedded. While you may be right here, please do not confuse B2B with B2C products here ... if give an option, I would never go for a product that relies

linder: ...Having 2 different places to store your music files is a good thing. Hard disks do fail... I am at ease about that because I use automated back-up with time-machine :-) linder: The target group for Beosound 5 is age 30 through 50 who are comfortable ripping music on their PC. The reason I know this is I was invited to a Beosound 5 focus group

Flappo The Grate: my dad is 71 , he has always hated computers and thought they were pointless and over complicated a year ago i gave him my imac dual core , now you can't get him off the thing he's got itunes full of jack jones , frank sinatra and all sorts of golden oldies stuff , he surfs the web all day , loves google earth and even plays

It only has computer features (digital music, cover art, net radio) ... why not compare it to a PC (or a Mac for that)? I cannot see any feature from the audio industry that would make it a true audio product but the powerlink and masterlink sockets ... Just so I understand it fully: I have to load CDs into the computer to play them? I have no FM, no

PhilLondon: I was just answering your point regarding the XP "problem". I would also like that the beast can play CD, DVD and FM Radio. I see your point that you rightfully made - but the existing Beocenter, Beoport, BM-Link integration for me appears more advanced (or should I say better suited) than the Beosound 5's solution.

PhilLondon: XP or not, no other brand will play your iTunes music because Apple does not license the DRM... For all the music you have in iTunes that you have ripped yourself or that is iTunes+ (wihtout DRM), then the Beosound can play it just fine. I am not questioning that at all ... but what does this system want to be? Music system or computer?

I buy most music online in the iTunes Store ... so now I will either have two computers sitting at home for music or I will have to convert the entire library to move it to an additional XP system. This system to me is a gimmick, probably one that will regularly break down due to an underlying OS that B&O has no control about. I simply do not want

For me that's good-bye to B&O products! The Beocenter 2 is probably the last AV product I have bought from them, sorry ... for me they're going down the wrong road.

Craig: mor: The dealer I went to quoted € 270 (about £ 210) for the pair - of which I would only need half. That seems excessive to say the least. Cannot believe they cost that much, is there another dealer you could try? Craig jep - Luckily there's another dealer in town - two more actually... I will try them next week. Don't want