Adjusting for inflation, that £11k in the 90s could probably buy you nearer £20k today.

Thanks for that - not a goer then! Didn't know that's what they were. Will have to have a think. I suppose the only option for placement as I suggest is two BL4000s? Else I would have to wall mount a BL7-1/2 - though placing this above the tv may be too high.

Hi I'm hoping to eventually replace most of my AV kit, and I have a question about the centre speaker. I have a long tv 'bench' that my Panasonic TH-42PH10 stands on. Wall mounting is out of the question, as it appears my flat walls are mainly made of paper (well, plasterboard). It'd never take the weight. BV7-1/2 seems to be the only

j0hnbarker: there's a whopping premium to pay for that wonderfully extruded aluminium frame encasing someone else's panel. That's not the only difference though - the panels are calibrated (which is expensive to get someone to come and do properly - around £300-£600), and they have other electronics (auto-contrast, brightness

Chrisreunion: I think that if we talk about prices, we should compare B&O prices to ...B&O prices! - 10 years ago the BeoLab 8000 was costing EUR 2,800 , now it is priced at EUR 4,000, which was the price of BeoLab Pentas if you remember.. Taking inflation of circa 3% for 10 years into account, that puts it at €3,763. I'm not totally

seanklemis: as far as i am aware the remotecodes are the same no matter who makes the box as the remote is the same This is what I would expect, as it is the case on the older boxes. The codes are not the same, however - the Thomson box just happens to respond to both. By this I mean the Sky HD remote will only control the Sky HD box. The Sky+ remote

Interesting. What I was getting at is that our Sky HD box will respond to the old Sky+ remote, so I would have guessed that the STB-C would control the Sky HD box using the Sky+ codes. I can't check our TV until I go home in a couple of weeks, so I can't tell you what controller profile we're using. There's also a possiblity the new

The Sky HD box will respond to the Sky+ remotes (much to our irritation at home when using normal RF distribution!). Try setting it up as a Sky+ box it and see what happens! Our BV7-32 works with SkyHD, so it's defiinitely possible. Don't know how it's setup though.

The BBC might be recording in 1080p, but I really doubt they're broadcasting in it. The bandwidth required is a huge step up, and a BBC HD blog from the end of November says the transmission bandwidth has remained the same since it was launched.

Release 'imminent' then. You would have thought it should follow very shortly after the software.