Loewe Xelos A32 Software Update

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Loewe’s back. Loewe is, of course, the German TV maker much beloved of Australian video cognoscenti of the early 2000s. You could have your Japanese and Korean TVs back in those days, or you could go for quality German stuff.

Indeed, I did just that. For several years my own reference TV was a Loewe Xelos 32-inch model. (I mention that for a reason to which I’ll return.) Under the local management of Indi Imports, the brand is being reinvigorated in Australia, once the company’s largest non-European market. Here’s the first model from its new wave on which we’ve laid eyes: the Loewe Bild 3.55 OLED TV. Equipment ‘Bild’ is German for image, or picture, or photo, scene, sight. That’s what my elementary Google skills tell me.

OLED means what it says. The ‘3.55’ tells us that this is part of the 3 series, which also features a number of LCD panels in the lesser models, and that it has a 55-inch panel. It’s priced at $4499. In fact, it costs only 10% more than the entry-level OLED from the brand famed for the technology, LG. And it costs $500 less than the mid-level 55-inch OLED model from that brand. (Although to be fair, you’re more likely to find some retail discounts on those.) I measure the panel at 4.8mm thick at the top. There’s nothing like a thin panel to make a TV look great.

It’s thicker at the bottom so as to fit in electronics and connections. It sits on a swivel stand, although there are various other mounting options available. Slung underneath the panel is a soundbar powered by 2 × 40W ‘music’ or 2 × 20W ‘sine’. I guess the latter is closer to a traditional continuous power rating. The speakers fire forwards, although it isn’t clear what drivers are contained in the bar. For external sound systems, one of the four HDMI inputs supports the Audio Return Channel.

If you’re using an older home theatre receiver without ARC, the digital audio output from the TV is coaxial rather than optical. That’s often better if you’re got a longish distance between TV and receiver because long optical cables can be quite expensive. There is also both a headphone output socket and an analogue line-level socket, both on 3.5mm minijack sockets. There are also the usual extras, such as three USB sockets. One of those is USB 3.0 and supports recording and time-shifting if you plug in a hard-disk drive (not a stick). The TV can also act as a DLNA server, so that you can play back the recordings on any DLNA-compatible video device.

If you have old SCART sources, then you can purchase an optional SCART adaptor. The remote uses infra-red. For smart functions an on-screen arrow appears, which you can move around using arrow keys. It had a ‘punch through’ capability with connected equipment. I could bring up the menu of a connected Denon receiver and navigate that using the TV’s remote.

(It switched to this mode automatically, and I would have been lost as to how to get back control of the TV itself, except that a pop-up message on the TV told me how. Loewe is very good at adding such useful hints just when you need them.) Finally, the TV has dual-tuner PIP, a rare feature these days. You can watch one station while monitoring another in a window. Setting up To confess: I was a little frightened of setting up and learning to use this TV.

In days gone by I came to quite the mastery of my Loewe Xelos over time, but that was with everyday practice. Sometimes we’ve found Loewe’s menu systems and TV operational controls quite counterintuitive.

Well, that’s no longer the case. If you wish to translate your old-timey Loewe TV skills to this model, you’re out of luck. But if you want to move to Loewe from just about any TV of the past decade, you’re good. You’ll find only minor changes, and a remarkably clear interface. A set-up wizard guides you through. At one point you select country, and Australia is listed there along with many European countries.

This suggests that the TV is the same as the one in Germany. Tamil tv serial actress sonia hot. And it reflects that Indi has been working intensively with Loewe to make sure it works well in the Australian context. For example, the FreeviewPlus function works perfectly. The wizard takes you through network set-up — this worked quickly and surely for my Wi-Fi connection and TV tuning. When you get to that part, I’d suggest you set ‘Accept Logical Channel Number’ to ‘Yes’ (it defaults to ‘No’).