According to Bose, only one in three homes have home theatre systems installed at home. That’s not good enough! To try and get more people enjoying the wonders of high quality home entertainment audio, Bose has gone and created its very first TV, and stuffed it full of high quality audio speakers.
Dubbed the VideoWave, the product consists of a 46-inch 1080p LCD panel, plus a collection of 16 speakers targeting different frequencies that are able to be shot around the room, creating an immersive surround sound feeling. The TV is connected to a single receiver console, which offers five HDMI connections plus an iPod dock and a universal remote that can control all components in your home theatre system.
The Click Pad remote is possibly the most interesting element of the whole system. Working a bit like a classic iPod, the remote features a touch sensitive square that when touched, brings up a contextual on screen menu around the outside of the picture, which only relates to the device you’re controlling.
The TV itself is chunky, looking almost more like a rear projection screen, but it still works with most 46-inch VESA wall mounting brackets, and comes with a dedicated stand designed to prevent toppling over.
For $7,999, it’s definitely still in that premium product space that Bose occupies so well, even though it’s relatively easy to spend more than that on a quality home theatre setup. But if you have concerns about managing multiple remotes or running cables through your home, it’s definitely a unique and workable solution.
Johnny P
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 12:32 PMBOSE = Blatantly Overpriced Sound Equipment
Adam
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 1:34 PMName something that outdoes a BOSE, you get what you pay for and i’ve been using Bose sound systems for years and nothing has come close to quality
Taskey
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 2:21 PMMy Pioneer LX-62 amp and Jensen 5.1 System completely overwhelm my friends 5.1 BOSE Lifestyle V20. Bought them for roughly the same amount of money. You dont get what you pay for with bose, you get less than what you paid for
Andy
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 3:00 PMMy Studio Monitors & 24bit sound card would blows away my mates $8000 Lifestyle system. And mine is actual studio quality. He did not like mine because it cost 25% of his, and was 500% better sounding. Simple fact. Bose USED to be good back in the day, when they built big quality sound systems. Now they are nothing more than computer speakers.
Big Windows
Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 10:20 AMRega
Cambridge
Mission
Sonus Faber
Primare
The problem is that the list goes on and on and on and on and on … etc… Sure some of these are high end but that is where bose likes to put itself with it’s pricing. The other question I have to ask is with the AUD so high why are the Bose prices still so high? I would like to see this whole setup reviewed before throwing the proverbial stone though. It’s uniqueness might count for something and set a trend.
Dave
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 12:55 PMBOSE = Buy Other Sound Equipment
I assume this will be cheap parts installed in nice-looking packaging and will be outperformed by gear worth less than 50% of the BOSE asking price, just like all their audio gear.
TSH
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 1:02 PMTo quote a mate from the hifi industry: “No highs, no lows, it must be Bose.”
:–P
Personally, I like separate components for a truly custom setup. But I can see the appeal of this approach.
sampi singh
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 4:41 PMdid you use IPS panel in LCD?
sam013
Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 8:59 PMOnline shopping always needs trustworthy outlets, I prefer audio solutions to buy genuine Bose Products not stuff from hongkong.