Many seem to view the halo as an expensive voleume control with poor battery life.
i wonder if experiences are any better with the theatre combo?
What will i be able to do with it? will it do what a BR1 will do for example
Halo and Theatre?
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The Halo doesn't yet have the television control (beyond volume) that it does with the Harmony/Eclipse (if thats what the question was directed at).
Funny enough, Ive just slammed B&O via a Customer Satisfaction Survey on the Halo I purchased a couple of months ago. I did purchase the Halo primarily to control volume via WiFi on the BL90s but its a very under-developed product that could be so much better if B&O put the effort in towards the useability rather than a nice clicky wheel volume controller. With the device right in front of me now.....
- Approach and this is the Theatre display automatically shown Photo (Halo1)
- Press either the < or > and the Theatre asks for a USB stick to be inserted.
- Volume control indication. No numerical display only a % of a tiny circle. Should match the source display.
- There is no direct source selection. Swipe up, and you have photo (Halo4) but that is only favourites.
- From the initial display (Halo1), Swipe down in live TV mode, no TV guide button, no keypad.
- Swipe down again (Halo3) - Now you can select source
- When selecting source - say Oppo DVD, you cannot control unless you thumb up back to the display in photo Halo2. Even then, limited controls compared to the BR1
- Swipe down to the next level, you can decide to go to single or multiple B&O Standby.
- Whenever you swipe up/down, the screen defaults to Halo1 after 5 seconds - so almost useless?
- Power. I think for £700, the Halo should have had either a proper (BEO5/6) dock, or as a minimum, a Qi charger as standard. I purchased THE EXACT Qi charger as the B&O one for £13. B&O wanted +£100. Really?
the Halo doesn't control the Theatre?
not correct, it actually does!
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sorry MR10%, I saw your photo's after I logged in to post mine.
apologies, honest mistake!
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