I've got the guy who does all the installations from the Sony Centre in Leeds giving me a visit next Thursday, he's going to look at my setup with the Beosystem3 regarding the replacement of my Beo 50" for the Sony A95K 55" so I'm hoping he may be able to fathom something out.

Does anyone have any tips for him to follow, I've told him that I have no idea when it comes to the technical stuff, also told him that I need to use the Beo5 where possible. I'll keep you all posted, Fingers crossed.

Hi Graham60,

The only suggestion I have at this stage is photograph the current connections on the front of the BS3 and the various connections in the connections menu on the screen. That way you can get back to status quo should anything get messed up.

Is your BS3 the DVI-D OUT version or the HDMI OUT version?

Take a look at the most recent post on the Beo5/6 forum. You should be able to get your original Beo5 XML file to start trying to re program your Beo5 for the new TV. Find a friendly dealer near you and take the Beo5 in to see if they would give you the XML file. If they do, come back and we can help you with updating it.

Stoobie

Thanks for that, good thinking, I've lost things before and for me it can be a nightmare getting it all back to normal !!

Hi Stoobie

My BS3 is the DVI-D OUT version ?? The Sony installer called today and had a look at my setup he said the BS3 to TV cable will need an adapter to connect to the Sony TV, he was also looking at how to get the sound from the Sony TV to to the BS3 ? He is looking at coming back next week bringing with him a smaller 30” TV to to experiment with, he is also looking at doing some more research into connecting everything and getting it all working.

Any information to assist him would be appreciated.

I’ll keep you updated

Jus had the Sony installation guy round, he took the lead from the Beo4 panel and with an adapter connected a Sony TV and everything connected to the Beosystem3 worked fine and he turned on the Humax Freesat all worked exactly the same as using the BV4, but when he went to the Sony TV to use the streaming capabilities he couldn't get the sound from the Sony to the Beo3 so the only sound was out of the Sony TV speaker, would you know how to (regarding lead connection and Beo3 input socket) get TV sound to the Beo3 in order to use the surround sound of the b&o speakers

Any help appreciated

On my very simple setup, I use the headphone socket on my LG connecting to the BS3 via a scart adapter.

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But Millemesen or Tignum may be able to help if you want the surround sound to work etc.

Stoobie

 

Hi Graham, the sound of my TV is coming from its optical out port (Toslink), then using an optical to coax converter, it is fed into an S/P-DIF digital input of the BS3. This allows 5.1 Dolby surround sound to be played over the connected speakers of the BS3.In the connections menu, at sound input, you should choose S/P-DIF.

If you have a 7.1 speaker set-up, you will likely need an HDMI ARC extractor and feed sound into one of the BS3’s HDMI inputs (plus maybe some help from a third BeoWorld member with that experience).

Regards, Johan

The problems here mainly is the way you have to use/control the setup.
As Tignum writes it is possible to get the sound from the LG to the BSys3 - I’d be an advocate for the HDMI ARC extractor there.

If you want to use sources of the BSys3 as well as also those from the tv, it gets complicated….especially, if you have to concider that other members of the household might demand ease of use.

My recommendation would be either to use the internal sources of the tv (including e.g. maybe a blu ray player connected there) and the BSys3 only for sound (speaker groups, volume etc) or to use the tv as a dumb screen and the BSys3 for everything (e.g. a Chromecast dongle, PUC-controlled external tuner, AppleTV etc…).
In the first case you prioritize better picture - in the second better sound.
Either way you will have to deal with two remotes.

I guess you will have to do some experiments yourself in order to find out, what suits you best.

Once Graham has everything set up as he wants I'm hoping to help him program his BEO5 to control the setup. I can only do that once we know the connections etc.

Stoobie