RussR:

I have not seen anything yet which leads me to believe that you could not have both in the system at once.  Depending on details of the BeoSound 1, and just where precisely the PowerLink outputs are, I should think they will play well together. Of more concern, at the moment, is wether you will want both.  I have had my 9000 since January of '97, and I love it.  But this past winter I bought an AppleTV, which is attached to my Avant...and I hardly use the 9000 at all anymore.  A bigger hard drive for my iMac, and some time ripping CD's and I'm pretty well done.  That, and iTunes Music Store, and Amazon, and a couple of other sources (in various resolutions),  have kept me from buying CD's for a while now. I will reserve judgement until I get to play with one myself,  and can judge the 'lust' factor for myself, but I would consider very carefully.

Try it this way, works just fine:

 http://poocs.net/2007/4/21/apple-tv-and-crt-tvs 

 Edit: mor was faster! 

Sorry Paddy,

as most of you know , I'm in the US.  The Avant/US came with one Component/RGB input meant for a 480p signal, which is the minimum advertised for the ATV.  So, for me it was a straight-forward, if tedious, process.  Longest process was getting the ATV set to 480p without being able to actually see the menu screen.  But with a recent software update installed, the Avant is even managing the ATV for me.

Notcertain if the VCR Avants will handle 480p.  Others here will be better suited to answer that.  

here is my response in another thread

Puncher, upon purchase of the BeoSound 5, your dealer will send your entire CD collection away to be ripped and have a backup file made, either onto a seperate hard-drive or USB device.

The only reason you would need an editing PC is on occasions in the future when you need to rip a new CD that you have bought.

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bayerische:

(...)In Lossless format, this will take days. 

There are services that do this already, it is not your B&O dealer that will do it with his little fingers!

The way these services work, is they scan the barcode of your CD and if they have already ripped your CD in the past, they just have it already in their database. They would really rip a CD that they do not already have in the past and then they would keep a copy.

I am not sure I would let royal mail transport my whole collection... as lose it. 

p.

The whole idea sounds stupid. I would never hand over my CD collection to B&O, have them forward it to some third party, shipping back and forth and paying a monstrous fee I'm sure.