vikinger wrote:

This Beovision 5 has just ended on eBay with no bids and an opening price of £199.

Graham

Sad but true... Crazy times we are living in...

BTW, it would be interesting to see if my "All-white" monochrome 17"  60's Beovision 601 would reach the £199... 😎

I am pretty sure it would... 👍

vikinger wrote:

First a post by Methuselah expecting a Mk2 update in about 1000 years . Now we find he's got a Widows machine.

Graham

elephant wrote:

With TLC nothing is truly obsolete (it may become irreparable) ... BeoPlayer on a Nineties' IBM Aptiva Widows machine playing through my home office BV8-32 via VGA !

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I have a BeoPort laying around - I haven't used it for years in my setup.

I guess it stopped at the time I realized, that ripping to MP3/WMA degraded, what I had on my CD's.

So after I started to rip to FLAC (lossless) the BeoPlayer became obsolete to me.

Nowadays - with the arrival of lossless streaming services - there is really no use for a BeoPort/BeoPlayer.

Yet another piece of B&O gear, that has become worthless.

MM

I've been really surprised recently by the bargains you can pick up on eBay - I've been after a beovision for many years and recently bought a beocenter 6-26 with built in dvb-t for just over £100. It has 2 HD inputs (admittedly 720p but who cares on a 26" screen) via DVI and component so I can connect (with a bit of effort) my Apple TV and a humax youview hard disk recorder. The picture is far better than the Samsung I was using previously at 1080p, and the sound is very good at least to my ears. For 100 quid it's worth it for the speakers alone! The beovision 5 HD was on my wish list but my wife will not allow me to go above the 30" mark so that was shut down pretty quick! Anyway these older and slightly less loved beovisions seem like very good value to me at least - I think lots of people are put off by the size, weight and risk that the older sets won't work with the latest gizmos. At this price I'd say it's worth a punt so it surprises me when these things aren't snapped up!

Incedentally I now have A pretty decent B&O multi-room AV installation in the house, complete with home automation (via lintronic, x10 and insteon); I've bought all my stuff second hand on eBay and never spent more than £200 on an individual component (my record is £10 for two Beo4s!) admittedly a large proportion have required a repair, but in my experience the build quality of B&O and the ease of service is second to none. That coupled with the wealth of knowledge on Beoworld means that I've been able to give a second life to quite a few old products and they all look and sound amazing still. 

Still using and enjoying my BV5, Avant DVD and BV3 !! And a Beoport!

Not to mention my Beolab 5000 system with Beogram 3000! Music and picture all seem fine to me! ( I do have an eye condition that means HD is to a large extent wasted upon me! I considered the new Avant but it would take up valuable book case space!!

Luke Spadavecchia wrote:

..... That coupled with the wealth of knowledge on Beoworld means that I've been able to give a second life to quite a few old products and they all look and sound amazing still. 

That post really made me smile! 🙂

That's what BeoWorld is all about.  We love it, we hate it, we love it, we curse it, but at the end of the day...  we love it - and we all like to help other people love it too. 🤒

Keep going Luke!

Lee

HDMI is important but not something you can't live without it. 

Just use a smart receiver like Technisat Isio technology and you will have all your music, movies, smart tv functionality (apps, spotify or even VOD) via NAS/ Home Network/ Internet on Pre-HDMI TV. 

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For my own tuppence worth I am still using my BV8-32 and 6-26 linked and picture quality is really good - however I got itchy feet when I saw my friends Samsung which knocked both out of court - so I borrowed a projector - definitely the way to go (for me anyway), a fraction of the cost of a new TV, easily upgradable, takes up no space and the fact that my B&O is all linked up means I can watch a massive screen in between the Penta Speakers with the sound and control of Apple TV routed through a BM6500 - sound and picture are excellent - I should add for movies which is 95% of what I watch. later I'll reuse my lintronic box to control a motorised screen and the projector - so everything is controlled via a Beo4. Big screen, big sound, small footprint - ok, not Dolby whatever and maybe not as sharp as a newer Beovision, but a great experience every time.

I suppose in some ways it depends on how often you watch TV and what you watch - a BV5 maybe fine for someone that has a large room and wants a beautiful looking TV and watches say the news or current affairs programs - not so good, for someone that wants High Definition and watches a lot of TV or films etc. The good thing is that there are real bargains out there to be had if you have a use for them -spare room, kitchen, study etc