Bang & Olufsen’s BeoSound 5: looks daft, but hey By Devin Coldewey November 12th, 2008 1 Comment First, I have this to say about it: if this device works as well as its website , I hope it’s banished to the innermost receses of the earth. Please, web designers: no more autoplaying music and pointless intro videos that show nothing .

BANG & OLUFSEN Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 5 is a Reasonable Media Controller (For Your Megayacht) By John Herrman , 6:28 AM on Wed Nov 12 2008, 4,767 views When Bang & Olufsen, maker of very expensive things that use electricity , let slip a photo of their upcoming BeoSound 5 home media controller, I saw a lot of potential. The interface looked

Bang & Olufsen's BeoSound 5 lands next year, is pure insanity by Paul Miller , posted Nov 12th 2008 at 2:25PM Bang & Olufsen knows as well as anybody that you can't (usually) compete only on design and quality these days, people want functionality, and the much rumored , newly official BeoSound 5 is just such a monster. The unit is controlled

Without any personal hands on I can only compare MOTS to my Tivo finding shows to record based on the shows I chose to watch. After about two weeks of suggestions that I really hated and filled my hard disk up all the time, I had to turn off this feature to keep from throwing my Tivo off a cliff.

What software version is on your BV8 and on your brothers?

Mine now seems to always open the phone book when I open it? It also likes to move the cursor when I am dialing the number so the number is wrong. If I shake it in my hand just a little I can get it to scroll through the phonebook. This is all after about one year use.

This looks like they spent all of 5 minutes on design. Why would you ever want this on your wall? It looks terrible. Talk about a wall wart.

£3500 equals $6102.00 at todays US exchange rate. This seems to match.

This looks a lot like the concept for a new B&O remote discussed here some months ago? http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/01/panasonics-ez-touch-multitouch-remote-control-concept-hands-on /

My dealer said the white speakers looked interesting and you now can have a red, white and blue speaker system, good in Texas. Customers he said always ask for white but then usually buy black or grey to be safe. The white BS9000 with the alum plate painted white with and blue black side panel just looks goofy he said. The Beosound 5 was cool but delivery