Bang & Olufsen BeoVision 4 85-inch 3D Plasma TV Announced; No You Can’t Afford One
April 20th, 2011
If you were sitting on your couch, drinking tea with your pinky sticking out as you waited for your butler to bring you your sugar cubes reading about that giant 103-inch BeoVision 4 TV from Bang & Olufsen back in 2009 and wondered what sort of ostentatious prick would buy such a massive and overpriced set, B&O has something slightly less snooty for you. The new set is a mere 85-inches across and is the BeoVision 4 85-inch Plasma.
The 85-incher is notable in that it’s the only B&O set to support 3D content, and it uses active glasses. It also supports full HD content for 2D as well, and looks nice enough sitting there in its aluminum frame. The TV uses the Beo6 remote control and has a BeoLab 10 center loudspeaker underneath to match your high-end B&O surround sound system.
B&O are mum on the hard tech specs, but they’d better be really good at the price this set is likely to cost. It will be slightly cheaper than the $130,000 the 103-inch plasma sold for I would imagine. Naturally there is no price listed, because if you have to ask…
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Im confused. Is plasma technology now better than LED? I thought the latest and greatest was LED for TV’s. It would be nice if someone could enlighten me as to why B&O chose plasma for a such an exclusive TV.
Plasma is better imho. More natural looking colors and more like “cinema”.
LED just means that the backlight of the LCD-TV is provided by LEDs.
The differences are marginal.
Is plasma better now for consoles (Xbox 360) and Fast-paced movies? Has the ghosting and burning-in been eliminated in the newer models?
I did see a Samsung plasma that said 0.001 ms response time that was cheap. I assumed it was a marketing gimmick because plasmas were not getting sold because I thought LCD was superior.
Well I have a 58-inch Samsung plasma, and the contrast is still better than any LCD I’ve seen. It’s much more filmlike and natural than my LCD from Sony. That said, there’s still some (minor) risk of burn-in on all plasmas these days. I play my PS3 on my Samsung without incident, but you need to make sure that you don’t leave persistent images in the same exact spot for days on end or else that can cause permanent burn in.
Thanks. I was thinking of buying a Plasma as they are so much cheaper, but wasn’t sure. Any 42″ model you would recommend?