hi,

a couple of comments to keep the fire burning...

one of the biggest differences between the us and france is the precense of cable operators in our lives. in france, the big cable companies dropped the ball and have no real presence on the market.

i, for example, get telephone, internet, and hd tv from internet provider. this means that the cable running around my house is used only for basic television (and i have no cable subscription). my set top box is connected to my adsl modem.

my stb is one of the most important hd devices in my house because it provides hd tv, hd vod, and hd playback from its intergrated disk drive. i hope someday that my b&o equipment will be able to control (at least a part of) it.

with this is mind, i ran second coax cable in my house for b&o video distribution. the cable is hd quality. imagine my surprise when i realized that b&o only distributed sd tv.

it's a little depressing really. i can only hope that technology will sort something out for us someday - and that b&o will adopt some part of the technology thereafter.

thanks for all the good advice,

scott
 

Q: I currently have a Sony television connected to my BeoSystem 3. I am going to replace it with a BeoVision 4. I have ML run throughout the house connected to Active & Passive Kits.

Is there a way to have the Sony TV connected to the BeoSystem 3 in a link room and gain access to the HD sources? 

A: Theoretically yes, though it wouldn't be as streamlined since there is no Bang & Olufsen PUC connected to the Sony. In the scenarios we've been discussing on this thread. We've been taking advantage of a property of ML wherein commands issued onto the network will act at all points through the network. You'd be able to pipe the signals in, but no way to control them. 

I don't think there's a practical way to use the Sony with anything but local sources unless you keep it attached to a BeoSystem 3, in which case it will work just as the other scenarios we've discussed.  

Hi Trip

Well I happen to have the a similar setup, my Sky+ TV box is connected to both a Avant (Master) & a Beosystem 2 (Slave) via there own inputs I.E RGB to the avant & S-Video to the BS2, both Registered as STB in there menus. They are also linked via ML& Beolink with a Beosystem 7000 actually doing the sound duties for the Beosystem 2 until I get some active speakers.

Now if I turn off the BS7000 IR eye by changing the option to 0 then I cannot control the sky box at all even though it is all connected via ML which means that the IR signal are not sent parallel ( note I do not have the PUC connected at all from the BS2 it is only connected at the avant as this is where the STB is, the BS7000  does the control as it is normaly set to option 2 so that it reacts to all commands so that I get sound from the avant)

 Now if I remove the STB in the menu of the BS2 then that makes it available as a link source , so if I then call up DTV(STB) via the Beo4 it swithches on & I can control it as normally (remember that there is no PUC lead connected from the BS2 at all only at the avant)

So unless I have done something wrong then this solution will not work as the control will need to be engaged & controlled either as a Link product or with  IR PUC leads from every TV connected back to the source.

So without telling you how to suck eggs I would test this out for your own peace of mind.

Hey Trip,

I think the pond is making all the difference here. Over her we baslically have 5 channels that transmit (an analog) signal on certian frequencies, and B&O use 'another' frequency (that we can set) to transmit any and all linked pictures to your linked TV. We do have digital here, not sure how thats goes into the mix though!

So if I hit DTV (Sky) up in my bedroom, the picture gets sent over the coax at the link frequency, and the audio gets sent over the ML. This would also happen with the AppleTV if the picture was downscaled to 480p. One thing to note though, is you can only distribute one thing, so if someone else in another room wants to watch AppleTV, then the Sky will be switched to AppleTV, as it's all sent on the same frequency.

SkyHD is a Satellite service, and in order to distribute it you need to connect the SCART to the beosystem 3 as the Scart is a SD signal, the HDMI is also connected to the Beosystem so you get HD on the local TV (Beovision9).

If the AppleTV also had a composite out, then this would be easy and you'd simply connect it to distribute it. But I tried it again last night just to make sure, and I'm pretty sure the Beosystem does nothing with the signal, which is why it doesn't work.

Again, not an expert, but this is my understandning.
F.

BeoLife,

Though this thread originated on the General Forums, it might be better suited to the North American Forum. In all honesty, I can't predict what will and won't happen through anything but a BeoSystem 3 or one of its variants. These are the only products I've verified this setup with, and aside from the BeoVision 8, it's the only system in our current lineup. 

My knowledge extends only so far as, "oh, hell, that worked!" Though this idea was originally suggested from HQ. I would be interested to hear if Keith can enlighten us on what exactly is happening within the BeoSystem 3 that may not be happening in a 7000 or BeoSystem 1 or 2. I think if this thread is going to be of any use to the wider BeoWorld audience, we need someone from Europe to chime in and verify that they can make this work and why or why not. 

I would recommend before we go any further that anyone who wants to experiment with what we've discussed prove concept before pulling any baseboards up! 

Hi

 I am just trying to understand this post, as surley i agree for the first TV that the IR blaster is installed in it will control the DVD.. But if you go to TV 2 in another room that TV will think the DVD player is local too it as you have told that TV DVD is in X port (i.e where you have plugged the HDMI) and will not use TV one's IR blaster to send the control to the DVD player as surly it will try and us its own?

 Or am i missing something?

Andy