Well got my beomaster up and running now,also my bv7 mk3 up dated with the latest softwere,which has sorted out a few things like the skybox which switches off and on now and now plays the crow blueray which had sound on the tv but no picture!

Did you only buy Beomaster 5 without Besound 5 ???

My dealer says he can not at present time order just Beomaster5[:'(]

Hi mr anders son,yes I did get a Bomaster 5 box on it's own from a very helpful dealer.I had to go to a few to get one ,as my local dealer would not sell me one,only both units even with the right order number at the time it was still 2 units only.

Keep looking around and trying,as you can get the box on it's own as proved on the forum with many happy owners as  well as myself when I finish setting it up😁

Good luck and hope you find one!

Hi Bv7Mk3,

Great you have hold of Beomaster 5 on its own, although at the moment is it true you will have no navigation of anything stored as N.MUSIC until a software upgrade later in the summer?

Hope I'm wrong.

StUrrock

Bv7Mk3 wrote:

Hi mr anders son,yes I did get a Bomaster 5 box on it's own from a very helpful dealer.I had to go to a few to get one ,as my local dealer would not sell me one,only both units even with the right order number at the time it was still 2 units only.

Keep looking around and trying,as you can get the box on it's own as proved on the forum with many happy owners as  well as myself when I finish setting it up😁

Good luck and hope you find one!

Cynical may be my middle name but I think the whole marketing push is to sell the BS5/BM5 combination. The fact that MOTS isn't enabled unless you have the BS5 is very questionable from a technical standpoint. If rumours of a soon-to-be two way remote are true it'll be really interesting if it "needs" the BS5 to work correctly. Of course it shouldn't but then the BM5 shouldn't need the BS5 to operate in the MOTS mode. I have asked in several related threads for anyone thats knows to tell us why/how the BS5 is necessary for MOTS operation but no one has posted a reply as yet.

Surely, as the two units are priced seperately, it would be unethical to demand you buy both, or none at all!

Jandyt wrote:

Surely, as the two units are priced seperately, it would be unethical to demand you buy both, or none at all!

I would agree, but what about if certain features "weren't available" unless you had both components?

Of course I'm speculating, but there is a perfectly serviceable PC twiddling it's thumbs, doing nowt, while streaming music to the audio out - why on earth would you need any computational input from the BS5 to provide MOTS functionality?

Puncher wrote:

Jandyt wrote:

Surely, as the two units are priced seperately, it would be unethical to demand you buy both, or none at all!

 

 

I would agree, but what about if certain features "weren't available" unless you had both components?

 

Jandyt wrote:

Puncher wrote:

Jandyt wrote:

Surely, as the two units are priced seperately, it would be unethical to demand you buy both, or none at all!

 

 

I would agree, but what about if certain features "weren't available" unless you had both components?

 

Then they should be priced as one unit!

 

Agreed!