Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision 7 LCD grows to 55-inches, makes room for Blu-ray not frugality

Willing to pay anything for your home entertainment system so long as it's Danish? There's a good chance that Bang & Olufsen's BeoVision 10 40-incher just wasn't enough for you. If you're dropping the kind of dough that thing costs ($8,700) you want something impressive, right? Enter the BeoVision 7, shipping in a few weeks. Despite having a lower model number it receives a 15-inch boost, up to 55-inches total, but drops the refresh rate to 120Hz from the 10's 240Hz. It's LED-backlit with local dimming to boost contrast, has not one but two different motorized stand options, and manages to make room inside for a Blu-ray player. The cost? $18,700 with (non-motorized) stand and the custom-tailored center channel speaker you see above -- roughly twice the BeoVision 10 and a good bit more than this was originally supposed to launch for. Consider this the recession-buster cousin of the $93,050 BeoVision 4.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2009 8:30AM]

I'm in the wrong business. With (one) born everyday, I should design a piece of audio/video gear that cost a thousand to make....Give it a name only a fancyboy can appreciate....Make it hard to acquire....Give it a look that people can talk about while smoking Cuban cigar's, sipping wine distilled from grapes grown on Neptune while wearing jackets with family crests embroidered on the breast pocket....Ship it in crates that cost more than the actual product cost to make....Market the fact that The Sultan of Brunei was our first customer....Publish spec's that are out of this world when bench tested at the summit of K2....and so on....and so on....and so on....