Just to add more details of the setup we use:

We added wireless HDMI to connect the projector using a Sony IFU WH1

BTW, your Epson is 4K and the Beosystem is Full HD only.
Does the Epson "expect" a 4K HDMI 2.x signal?
Hope you get it all sorted out.

Ralf

Hello Kallasr does the sony wireless hdmi function well? Is there a difference in picture quality with wired hdmi connection? Thank you

Cannot say if there is a difference, was always connected wireless.

With normal viewing very stable. 

When we are watching football matches with several persons there can be dropouts - espacially if there is a lot of movement (=people getting another beer... ;-))

Ralf

Hi Ralf,

The Epson automatically adjusts to whatever the input is. I chose it because it had some great reviews regarding how it deals with HD and 4K content (and other facilities).

My cinema room has a Sky Mini box and a blue ray player which both output full HD and as I had intended to use the Beosystem 4 as the AV processer then everything currently is Full HD. The Projector upscales HD to 4K which is actually gives a impressive picture which is pretty close to native 4K.

Norman

 

Hi Beojeff,

The HDMI cable to the projector is Optical and HDCP compliant, unfortunately when I powered up the BS4 to on Tuesday, I wasn't getting any output at all.

I checked the cable by directly connecting it to the Blue ray player and the picture came up on the projector....cable ok. I then tried connecting the BS 4 to my TV and still no output at all, so I've sent the BS4 back to the dealer to sort out....which he is doing as we speak.

Interestingly, I had raised a ticket with B&O support regarding the error message (suspecting it was a HDCP issue as mentioned in this thread), and received the following very unhelpful response today:

"Dear N,

Thank you for your patience

According to our product specialist the challenges you are experiencing are due to HDCP protection. These were implemented some time after the last sold BS4. which means that we cannot you with this challenge unfortunately. we are very sorry. 

If you need help with anything else, please contact us again"

Unbelievable!!

Anyway, doing some research on the web, It's suggested that using a HDMI splitter would enable me to 'get around' the HDCP.

Have you guy's heard of this, and if so would anyone be able to recommend a particular splitter to use (apparently not all splitters are the same!), of course I'm assuming the dealer will fix the BS4....fingers crossed

All sorted !!!

The dealer returned the BS4 and everything now works (big shout out to Jonathan Hill and Christian Jones of Sounds Integration for all their help) despite the total lack of support from the 'finest minds at B&O'.

Anyway, the full setup is as follows:

BS4

Penta labs MK1 - Front Left and right, Lab 8000's - Back left and right, Lab 7.1 - Centre, Lab 2 - Sub woofer.

Epson TW7400 Projector, 120 inch screen

Beosystem 5500 connected to the AV out on the BS4 and uses the Penta's.

When I configured everything, I played the Terminator Dark Fate Blu ray disc to test the setup.....all I can say is OMG, the sound is fantastic. The picture from the Epson is extremely detailed and does an excellent job on upscaling the HD from the BS4 with no problems with fast action scenes. All in all, I'm completely blown away with both sound and picture.

My only ask of B&O now is to please, please produce a BS5 (or a new AV processor) updated for 4 or even 8k passthrough so I can use in my main living room with my Lab 5's & LG OLED.........

 

 

 

 

Hello all,

I am planning to get a beosystem 4 to upgrade my current setup and I was wondering about a couple of things.

First of all I already have an atlona switcher (AT-UHD-SW-52) which I am planning to use in my new setup in order to exploit the cinema mode feature. My first question is if I need any special number to activate the matrix under the product integration menu as I had to do with my V1. Which brings us to the second question which is if the cinema mode will work with an atlona switcher other than the AT-HD4-V42-B&O.

Furthermore, I am planning to add an oled lg later in 2021, do you have any experience with lg oled tvs connected on beosystem 4 as far as controlling them (turn on/off) is concerned.

Last but by no means least is there anything I should double check before proceeding with the purchase?

Thanks in advance

Tasos