You must have a new DVI or HDMI  cabel instead of the coax to your link TV to get HDTV resolution...

Regards 

Well,

actually you need to exchange the RF cable with HDMI or DVI as posted by BeoLab. Depending on the length of the connection you will need something like HDMI repeaters.

 The ML + HDMI combi should work

Regards

Alex

ok,

assuming that i can pull out the coax and pull through a hdmi cable...

how would the ml+hdmi thing work, do recent b&o tvs have a sort of hdmi out port ? would i control the hd source with my beoremote.

thanks for you ideas,

scott

 

The answer is to go outside the "link" world just a bit.

I'm currently managing a job in which we're distributing HD sources throughout the home to over 10 B&O televisions (though this could work somewhat with a few non-B&O tvs thrown in). I'll try to explain this as clearly as possible.

Instead of relying on the B&O tv to take all the signals in and send them back out, use a distributor/amplifier (I'm using Key Digital) that has as many outputs as you have televisions. Let's say that you wanted your Blu-Ray player to be accessible and operable from 4 rooms. Here's what you'd do:

1. HDMI out to Key Digital dist./amp.

2. Audio out to whatever TV is closest

3. IR Flasher from that same TV's PUC to the front of the Blu-Ray player

4. HDMI out of the Key Digital dist./amp. to each other television

5. Connect all components with ML 

Now as long as this is in place, I can make the HDMI input on, say, the BeoVision 8 in my bedroom "DVD" just like the BeoVision 7 in my main room and the Avant in my office. Sound and control are fed onto ML and video is sent through HDMI (which can be CATV between rooms). Essentially the DVD player is hooked up to all the TVs simultaneously as opposed to only being hooked up to one and distributed to the rest. 

I can clarify anything here, but this is the only way we can currently do this. 

Clarify for me, please..

1. Does 1 TV control the DVD, or is DVD controlled by any through ML? 

2. Each B&O TV other than the master is in option X?

Thanks

Free your mind...

It took me almost a week to figure out exactly how this works, but trust me it does. The best way to understand it is that MasterLink is parallel, so if something is controlled in one place, it's controlled everywhere. If sound is linked in somewhere, it's linked in everywhere.

Think of a row of televisions with a single blu-ray player in front of them. An HDMI cable runs out of the player into a distributor and then an HDMI runs to each TV. That takes care of sound and picture, right? So if these are all B&O tvs, I connect that HDMI to AV2 and set it to DVD. I then run a single IR flasher from any BeoVision to the Blu-Ray player. Now, as long as these tvs are linked with ML, they can all access the Blu-Ray player as though it was attached only to it. If one can control it, they all can.

So if I turn on one TV to "DVD," the player will start up and I can start watching a TV. If I go into another room and press "DVD" there, too, I will see the DVD in progress. I can then pause it, access menus, whatever.

It's the same way that you play a CD in one room and can walk all over the house controlling it.

Option Programming is irrelevant. All the TVs can be in Option 1, 2, or 6. The idea is that by running HDMI through a distributor, you're feeding all the TVs as if they had their own player (or media center, appleTV, STB, whatever). You're simply taking advantage of the fact that any control will exist over ML if the source is engaged.

PM me if you want to make contact and have this explained further. Or I can continue to elaborate here.

hi trip

so, hd signal is broadcast to all tv and the control (ir) signal goes over the masterlink. cool. the b&o tv is connected to hd device by a b&o controller. can the hd device be a stb and work through the stb-c ?

will this work if, by some miracle, the blu-ray player is integrated in the tv (think bv7) ? do they have a hdmi out option ?

does the b&o tv connected to the hd device have to be 'engaged' first or can it be launched from any tv (like with cd).

as an aside, how do you assign "dvd" to av2. is this some sort of trick with the beo4 ? 

thanks for all your insight !
 

scott 

Another thing you could try is this: