Bang & Olufsen’s BeoSound 5 lands next year, is pure insanity
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Bang & Olufsen knows as well as anybody that you can’t (usually) compete only on design and quality these days, people want functionality, and the much rumored, newly official BeoSound 5 is just such a monster. The unit is controlled by the BeoSound 5 controller, a rather massive “remote” with a 10.4-inch XGA LCD and an aluminum scroll wheel. On the back end there’s a 500GB BeoControl 5 music server running Windows XP Embedded with world wide web connectivity and patent pending intelligent playlist creation. Naturally there are outputs and inputs galore, and it’s not just for audio: the box pumps out DVI-I and HDMI, and can play back plenty of video formats. Oh, but then there’s the price. B&O isn’t budging on this front, with a
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