Bang & Olufsen debuts 40-inch BeoVision 8 LCD HDTV

Slowly but surely, the BeoVision 8 is creeping up into big screen territory. Bang & Olufsen's latest iteration, more casually known as the BV8-40, pulls those LCD TV edges out to 40-inches diagonally and features a lush 1,920 x 1,080 native resolution. Other specs include 500 nits of brightness, a 3,000:1 contrast ratio, six-millisecond response time, a digital TV tuner (for those in DVB regions) and a pretty swank set of internal speakers to boot. All we're told regarding pricing is that the MSRP is "attractive," but we get the feeling it's only sexy to those who aren't concerned with zeros and decimal places.

[Via GadgetReview]

Bang & Olufsen debuts 40-inch BeoVision 8 LCD HDTV

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 16th 2009 10:22PM]

Bang and Olufsen isn't a terrible company - they aren't pushing Vizios at quintuple the price or anything. From what I see, they don't sensationalize their products with Marketing-Hipped buzzwords. Like saying they have 500,000,000,000:1 super dynamo elite ultra contrast and the crap. They provide (somewhat) sober numbers and you can bet on that product performing to those numbers.

However, the price range is certainly not consumer or prosumer. They build product for AIG execs who make $45MM bonuses. These people, who are only good at swindling hundreds of thousands of people somewhat legally, don't care though that the TV they bought is the best of the best. They buy by pricetag.They could get a larger, far more superior TV for probably 1/10th of the price of the B&O TV. But in their mind the $65,000.00 TV is far more superior than the $3,700.00 TV.

[acme64 Posted Mar 16th 2009 11:22PM]

there's no way in hell a house stays that clean with a kid in it....

[SanFranSoxFan04 Posted Mar 17th 2009 11:15AM]

I find it odd that the photos show the display angled upwards but the kid is sitting on the ground well below the display. Good thing B&O has such lovely chassis and bezel, since it's directly in the kids sight line.

[Woody Posted Mar 17th 2009 6:40PM]

that's not a kid, that's a ROBOT!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 21st 2009 2:13PM]

I bought a £10.000 `B&O and it does not live up to its reputation Im afraid. I have a great big black blob on screen when its sunny out and they have told me to put the TV where the sun dont shine. Its a common fault and the customer care was appalling. My Panasonic was more reliable.