takktakk wrote:

Anyway - first impressions are really good. Anyone who tweaked and turned on their set - please give recommandations or share experiences you have made.

Mine is back with my dealer and I have a new MKIII in it's place. SD is definitely better than on the MKIV. HD is worse though. A HD picture on the MKIV was about 15% better, sharper and more defined than this MKIII. However, I still think the MKIII has a decent balance between a decent SD and excellent HD image.

Blu-ray drive was noisy, which was frustrating, but what I found more frustrating was having to press yellow+button on the Beo4, to control DVD playback. I can live with the former, but hope they do something with the latter.

My linkroom issues have gone since the MKIII was installed again last week. That might have just been a problem with that MKIV, which was a lemon. I'll test again when the new MKIV is here next week.

The only 'tweak' (apart from turning off film mode) is to *increase* the sharpness. I increased mine to 18 (from 14), someone else said they'd done the same - bizarrely that seemed to both improve the HD and SD picture!

Thank you for sharing. I do hope you get things settled with your set.

Could you tell me please where I can find the film mode setting? I can not seem to locate any such default mode settings.

Film Mode!!
I was under the impression that the BV7-40 did'nt suffer from this problem, only the BV8-40 did?? I'm taking delivery off my new BV7 this weekend hopefully? (without any bluray or DVD player).

splud wrote:

Film Mode!!
I was under the impression that the BV7-40 did'nt suffer from this problem, only the BV8-40 did?? I'm taking delivery off my new BV7 this weekend hopefully? (without any bluray or DVD player).

It has the film mode option in two places, in the engineer service menu and the customer service menu!

it's a bit much you have to into a service menu ( with all the hazards that presents to the untrained ) just to get the picture looking good

on a tv costing nearly £8k !

will the bv10 be more like the good old bno tv's of the past ??

Hi All

I have now had my MK IV for about 2 weeks, and this is my experience.

In contrast to Moxxey´s tv, i have had ONLY one thing that bothered me and that is related to the stand AND will be fixed shortly.

OTHERWISE....

Perfect digital picture: Use the internal DVB-HD module, flawless !!

Perfect linkroom signals, both sound AND picture, regardless of BR, DVD or anything else playing.

BD drive makes a little noise and is a bit slow.... SO F...... WHAT???, makes NO diferent in the overall experience of at TV that is supposed to display a good picture. Furthermore, is is very silent during playback..(take a PS3 for instance, is is almost impossible to hear the sound comming from the tv during playback)

And yes, DVD´s also look very very good on the screen...

SO moxxey, we can only hope that you will get a working tv this time...and may i suggest that you let your dealer do the setup, that way, they cant blame you for doing something wrong..

moxxey wrote:

My linkroom issues have gone since the MKIII was installed again last week. That might have just been a problem with that MKIV, which was a lemon. I'll test again when the new MKIV is here next week.

Well, maybe this is because BS3 does not have to downscale anything whan you only play SD content. My MK IV had NO trouble downscaling HD channels, BD signals or anything else ON THE FLY... Yours had issues with this, so lets hope that is also solved on your replacement tv..

Ehlerz wrote:

Perfect digital picture: Use the internal DVB-HD module, flawless !!

BD drive makes a little noise and is a bit slow.... SO F...... WHAT???, makes NO diferent in the overall experience of at TV that is supposed to display a good picture. Furthermore, is is very silent during playback..(take a PS3 for instance, is is almost impossible to hear the sound comming from the tv during playback)

And yes, DVD´s also look very very good on the screen...

FINALLY something POSITIVE :-D

Thank you for that input Ehlerz! My impression is also that the BD makes some noise during startup, but that is quite normal for some reason i do not know of. Do you know if yours has the most recent SW?

Also I am curious about two more things: DVB-HD module. I have a sat dish, and told the dealer to supply the DVB-S module. It seems he has not gotten around to that. It is my only option with a dish, isn't it? Also I have HD channels. Do you know if the DVB-S will support that (Conax)?

Also - the 10 000 dollar question: Did you, or did you not, do anything to any system settings at all? Sharpness, Film Mode or other?

Thanks :-)

Hi Takktakk

The noise is because the BD drive spins much Much faster than an ordinary DVD drive. That is the official explanation from B&O themselves.

I guess your satelite should work in the build in digital tuner, as it is a combined DVB T/S/C/HD.

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As you see in the upper right corner, the third and lowest antenna input is used for sattelite, this will probably require you to by a CA module for your card and place this in the inbuild cardreader (Dont know if this is the way with sattelite, can someone maybe confirm?)

And finaly, no i did not make any changes, at least not yet. I am still in the process of learning and obseving everything.