Bang & Olufsen Beovision 6 Review

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Bang & Olufsen Beovision 6
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omcneill's Review of Bang & Olufsen Beovision 6 LCD Television

1st Feb 2006

Overall Rating

4.5 stars
  • Value for money
    2 stars
  • Image Quality
    4.5 stars
  • Features
    3 stars
  • Time LCD Television Owned
    6 - 12 Months
  • Sound Quality
    5 stars
Good Points

Stunning design.
Gorgeous picture.
All your mates will be jealous.


Bad Points

Price price... price.


General Comments

In the mythical city of El Dorado, street kids played footie with golden balls and used precious gems for tiddlywinks; adults stayed indoors and watched Grandstand on their Beovision 6-26s. For the Bang & Olufsen Beovision 6 TV, if it can be reduced to something so base and functional, drips with exquisite gorgeousness. Even before switching it on, the set screams Danish fastidiousness. B&O created a special machine to brush the vertical metal surround in the same direction as the horizontal. They crafted the remote from Zinc so that it doesn't sweat in the hand. The glass has the same anti-reflective coating as fighter cockpits; and the motorised base is honed from a single solid piece of aluminium.

When you finally deign to switch it on, a silent motor propels the screen to a pre-programmed position, then, and only then, gently activates the picture. The first thing you notice as you gaze over your caviar and Kobe beef is that the picture has more depth, contrast and vitality than any conventional LCD. Colours are subtle but exact: black is black, white is Jacko white, and there is a beautiful lustre to the image. This is all thanks to a clever piece of software called Vision Clear, which meters light levels and adjusts brightness and contrast as conditions change. This makes for a picture fully visible in the brightest and darkest conditions. And it looks wonderful.

The sound too is a notch or three above the best LCD's out there. Using a combination of active speakers and bass port, sound is deep and resonant. There is no distortion - music is lively, and films eminently watchable without a full surround-sound set-up.

I could highlight the technical flaws: no High Definition as standard, compatibility with only the older type cable set-top boxes and so on. Indeed, there are a few gripes if you evaluate any Beovision on a purely technical or price level. But that would be missing the point. This is a piece of art, an ornament. And quite frankly, I don't care about the rest.

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