Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision 10 orders up the 'hands-on special'
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 3rd 2009 3:24PM
posted Nov 3rd 2009 3:24PM
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It's hideous.
Who wants to spend that much on a beautiful TV and use integrated speakers housed behind a huge colored cloth that detracts from the screen itself?
If I were rich and didn't care that much about sound quality I'd at least mount a panel-only on the wall with all the wires hidden and have some in-wall surround speakers installed.
Some of them are pretty clever - a friend has a B+O tv, with the speaker built into the stand, which he has connected up to external B+O speakers, meaning the stand speaker becomes a pretty decent centre speaker. For built in TV speakers they're great - plenty of bass certainly.
Am I the only one who thinks that this darn thing has not been fully unpacked? The orange wrapper at the bottom reminds one of a half peeled chocolate. Pity that there is no chocolate under the wrapper though.
Alternatively, this TV resembles a half nude, with a bright orange sarong. Unfortunately the cheap sarong detracts from the top half :-(
The orange panel looks really distracting. Surely something like this couldn't be used anywhere other than an executive's office?
Omg this is Bang & Olufsen, they will make the panel pink with yellow bubbles if you'll want it.
not worth a dime.
B&O stuffs break down way too much for the price paid.
Seriously are they a division of Bose or something?
Who cares about B&O? And anyway that orange slab must be the ugliest sight ever.
Who cares about B&O? No one that can't afford it.
That orange slab makes me want to vomit.
I think this would go nicely with a Bose speaker system, especially if connected via goldplated Monster cables.
And $2000 "power conditioners".
@tomservo
lets hope that was a shot at markup, not power conditioner tech.
@fred. It was definitely a shot at markup.
B&O is like Bose but up one or two levels of wealth. Like a Bentley to Bose's BMW.
B&O and Bose customers have $$ >> Brains. You don't have to be an idiot to buy one, but then you have to have a LOT of $.
Monster cables?
Try Van Den Hul...
But yeah, they look awesome but actually use Samsung panels with some clever circuitry thrown in. If it were me, I'd buy a 60in Kuro and put it on a motorised bracket, de-bezel it and match it with a Bowers and Wilkins MT30 speaker set (you won't really see the amp so won't spec it here), and have change.
Being cool is priced higher than money nowadays
Now everyone can play (midlife) Crysis
The lower panel is magnetic and comes in different colours.
B6O has made some stunner in the recent past, such as their 50" plasma from 2007, but lately in high end design and performance TV screens have been buried by Loewe.
I do not plan to change my beloved 60" Kouro for the next 50 or 60 years, but if I should ever find myself on the matket for another high end top designed TV set Loewe would be my choice.
Who buys this stuff? I have never seen a B&O product in a home.
Come over here to Chelsea - I walked past an estate agent today - about 1/3 of the living rooms pictured had B+O tvs.
ever seen "Batman Begins"? lots of B&O, both speakers and TVs.
Who buys this stuff?
People with good taste for design and ergonomics.
I think most of the people that talk here have never tried a piece of B&O gear. Go try it for yourselves, as someone said, once you try it you know there is nothing better.
I don't need BO, thanks.
The panel itself is just an edge lit LED with lesser specs than newer Samsung models. IF that's worth over $15k to you then go ahead.
You can build the enclosure yourself if you have the aptitude for a couple hundred bucks. Then buy a Samsung set on sale at Best Buy for $1700. Sure you won't get the ridiculous remote, but it that thing really worth the asking price.
B&O can't possibly fab their own panels. Sooner or later, someone will find out what kind of guts this thing has and expose it for the massive fraud it is.
Like Sharper Image, they take something ordinary and resell it for an obscene markup by applying their own, nice finish.
It's not a secret now either. They use Samsung panels. The same ones in the high end Samsungs.
But the image processing and electronics are their own. Maybe.
I dont like the orange speaker, but tne you can get it in anumber of coulors.
BUT really guys B&O is premium class, great quality, great design etc. Just te testing phase at B&O is more than twice that of any sony or Pana out there.
I have a nice B&O television and once you get one you want more, just a simpel thing like the Beo4 makes the price on the TV worth it.
And really Bose is crap. Dont compare B&O to Bose or pana or sony, B&O is like mentioned the Bentley or Maybach or TVs. A sony is a nice VW and Pana perhaps an Audi.
If you want just a TV get a Pana Plasma or a Pioneer (If you can) but if you like design and performance and quality that last get B&O, the speakers in any B&O TV is most likely better than anything else in any TV in the world, fact ;)
Yes I am a fanboy sorry guys :( But I am also Danish, and have visited B&O many times so sorry hehe
#Markarian
Yes they use Pana and samsung panels, they used to also use Pioneer panels, every B&O will happily tell you this, as B&O use the best panels out there, but really do you think the panel is that important? Have you ever seen a test of a B&O or seen it IRL?
Try to look at e.g. Flatpanels.dk
The panel is important but the light source and the image processing is just as important, and here B&O have an edge over most others
I don't care how much money this hideous design costs, I spent around that price for my first Sharp LCD back in the day.
What I care about is the tech. And I'm sorry.
But anyone trying to sell me an edge-lit LED over a local-dimming backlit LED or any of the newest generation plasmas is going to be laughed at. There's simply no way, physically, an edge-lit LED LCD can compete on black levels or contrast with either of the above mentioned technologies. None.
It's really thin, but that's all edge-lit led sets have going for them. There's no way the picture quality, no matter how much it's tweaked, is going to match up.
I'll keep my Kuro which was half the price, 20 inches bigger, and vastly better looking, thanks.
You need to own some B&O equipment to know how good it is. If we were talking about cars, where it is now common for the same engine or parts to be used in different marques and models, you would simply judge the result on its desirability, performance and fitness for purpose. Likewise, we all share a surpisingly high proportion of our DNA with the higher primates but there's no argument that that little extra bit counts for a lot; B&O is like this.
You pay for brilliant design and, as sp4rkz says, some clever circuitry. You also get tremendous ease of use with interoperability between all your B&O equipment from just one remote. When I last changed my B&O, I did wonder whether building a system from carefully chosen components might be a better bet and experimented with separates - the result looked like a dog's dinner, wires all over the place and three or four remotes - not good.
Also, when you need an update you can trade in the equipment for a good price - most electrical equipment is worth zilch when you've finished with it, so while you might not consider B&O a good investment, as such, it is a better investment and turns out to be not as expensive as it seems.
There's a thriving market in second hand B&O products: if new is too expensive, you might consider one of B&O's CRT sets - they still have better pictures and sound than most current LEDs and plasmas, and hey, you'd be doing something for the environment (in my view the destruction of so many great CRT sets for inferior flatscreens was enormously wasteful, only now is the new technology catching up).