It was a Saturday and our visit to the Palladium Mall in Lower Parel was inadvertent. We were searching for some factory outlets and visited the Mall accidently. While window shopping I found a Bose store and since I am a big fan of Bose, we decided to pop in.
The salesperson greeted us with a smile. I wanted my wife to experience the Bose effect and so we decided to look at some of the home theatre systems there. During my discussion with the salesperson I told him that I already own multimedia speakers made by Bose and would like see their other range of products. He was more than happy to show us around. He suggested us to take a demo of one of their newest products and we were already excited.
He took us to a small room which had a sofa and a big wall mounted television. The demo room had five black cloths that looked as if they were covering the typical five speakers of a 5.1-surround system. I assumed that he will be talking about some new home theatre product launched by Bose. Nevertheless we were eager to know more.
The demo started and I observed that the brand name of the television was Bose. I started thinking “When did Bose venture into television sales?” “Must be some custom made TV for the demo”, I thought. The pictures were crystal clear and the image quality was very good. Later on we found out that it was a 46” LCD HDTV. Then came a moment in the demo when the salesperson started lifting the black clothes from the wall one by one. To our surprise there were no speakers behind those black clothes. Heck there wasn't even a woofer in the room. We were shocked when he told us that the excellent sound was coming from the back of the HDTV. It was too good to be true. There were no wires in sight which meant that the HDTV doubled up as the home theatre system. The TV was connected to a receiver which accepts connections from all the other devices (like blue ray player etc) making the TV wire free and uncluttered. The icing on the cake was the universal remote which has very basic controls- power, source, volume, channel up-down and a touch based track pad for controlling everything via the on-screen menu. There was also an iPod dock which connects to the receiver and plays tunes from the iPod via television. Amazing isn't it? This is the new VideoWave technology from Bose and we were thrilled with the demo.
Once we were done with the demo we filled in some feedback forms. Unable to control my curiosity, I asked the salesperson the obvious question, “How much does the unit cost?” I was expecting the cost to be a couple of lakh rupees but he surprised me when he told me “4.75 lacs Sir”. The price was mind boggling so was the experience!!!
Read more about the Bose VideoWave technology here:
http://www.bose.com/controller?url=/shop_online/videowave/index.jsp
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