To make it worse, there is no storage or anywhere to hide a Freesat box, It's a modern minimal beach house.  The nearest cupboard is up and over the vaulted ceiling. About 30 metres away.  

Bring back my old, old Panny plasma with built in Freesat that went to the tip. It just worked.

Iain56a wrote:

 

***** Answer ***** From a business point of view it has been decided not to be certified for Freeview. Input will be considered for future updates and next generation products.

is this not the next generation of product ?

I can confirm we fitted an Avant in the UK today - i'm in front of it now - full EPG available, working brilliantly, and we have a USB powered 500gb solid state hard drive that easily fits inside the back cover - you could get a dozen in there.

Mark wrote:

Iain56a wrote:

 

***** Answer ***** From a business point of view it has been decided not to be certified for Freeview. Input will be considered for future updates and next generation products.

is this not the next generation of product ?

Unfortunately, this is why I'm slowly falling out of love with modern B&O.  The apparent attitude of the company to it's customers is certainly putting me off buying any 'newer' stuff.  I'll just stick to my vintage and more recent (80's and 90's) B&O.  Why spend all of that hard earned money on a product that won't perform the simplest things and B&O won't help users get the most from their chosen media or get the best functionality from their expensive product which even a basic 300 € TV can do?

I might have expected this from other manufacturers of 'Premium' products but not B&O.

Dave.

Martin

 

That hasn't had the software refresh. When it has, the blue 'Refresh EPG' option will go.

I'd love to know if the EPG still works.

Is that on Astra? (I assume so...) - but Astra says it only broadcasts Curent & next..

 

Lain,

Perhaps something is wrong in your settings? Some info is there and that is strange. Anyhow, could you take some more installation pics? It looks very nice! I have a pair of BL9 also with an Avant and I am considering changing to white covers too. What do you think about the white and have you had any other colors for them also?

 

 

Well, after nearly 4 months still no progress.

 

No change to the EPG, and despite the best endeavours of someone at B&O to stimulate a response from customer services neither I nor the dealer have heard anything.

 

Time to return it as 'unfit for purpose' I think.  After so many years of B&O it feels sad - but Meridian MQA sounds nice :)

Hi all

Only the DVB-T freeview module supports fully licensed software and full EPG listings. For UK residents, the SAT module is not Freesat and should not be sold as, to my knowledge this isn't advertised anywhere that it is and works within the parameters as listed. Frustrating but that's what it is...

Indeed, but it should populate "current+1".  Without that you cannot even scroll down to a channel see what is being broadcast and select that channel, as you cannot select an 'empty' channel