Hopefully the august SW update for the Avant will help the PQ Moxxey. 

olvisab wrote:

If I quite remember you own an oppo, did you try to use it for the upscale ? Maybe the results will be better.

You can't upscale the Sky content via the Oppo (well, you might be able to, but you can't control the Sky box via the remote, if you do). As it's not setup this way, I've not tested Sky upscaling via the Oppo.

But football/sport on the Avant is mediocre. B&O started a thread about the Trusted Reviews Avant review, I posted a comment and a few Avant owners agreed with me: https://www.facebook.com/bangolufsen?ref=br_tf

I expect B&O's social media team to have those negative comments erased by tomorrow, so read soon.

Football via my Avant is like very high quality SD, not HD. I think it's the fast motion across the uniformly coloured grass that doesn't help.

Interesting feedback, Moxxey - I still haven't received my Avant, but I was planning on routing the STB signal through an OPPO 103d and using the latter for 4k upscaling. Can't you set the Oppo to "always on" in order to control the Sky box via the remote? The OPPO 103d/105d are among the best video processors out there at the moment IMHO.

B&O has a special cable with a mini jack at the end of it, so you do not need to glue the IR-blaster to the front of the OPPO but instead you can just insert the mini jack at the IR-IN port on the back of it.

Roger

I guess the problem will not be controlling the OPPO, but PUC-controlling the STB connected via the OPPO.

How about using one of these for connecting the STB to the BV:

http://darbeevision.com/darblet

MM

I plan on running a PUC cable to the OPPO 103d and a separate cable to the STB, the only identified obstacle seems to be input selection on the OPPO to make sure the HDMI-signal is routed through it without having to operate the OPPO.

The Darblet box linked above (DVP-5000) does the same thing as the 103d, but the 103 can also process video without applying the Darbee-trickery. And the Darblet costs $349, but if you buy the OPPO 103 with Darblet it only costs $99 (OPPO 103 is without Darbee-processing, the 103d has it for just $99 more).

OPPO also offer a special firmware version of the 103/103d/105/105d without the logo if you prefer a sleek look on your BeoVision without 3rd party logos on the screen. These OPPO's can be bought through any B&O dealer.

Roger

Roger wrote:

I plan on running a PUC cable to the OPPO 103d and a separate cable to the STB, the only identified obstacle seems to be input selection on the OPPO to make sure the HDMI-signal is routed through it without having to operate the OPPO.

Let me know how/if you achieve this Roger.

I did follow this advice from the Trusted Reviews review and it does appear to sharpen things up a bit with a good HD source: "And once we’d turned off the noise reduction and overscan features (heaven only knows why B&O decided to leave these on with footage as pristine as 4K/UHD), we were impressed with what we saw."

@Roger

I did mention the Darblet just in case it will not be possible to route the signal from one of the inputs on the OPPO without first turning on the OPPO. (I already knew the price of the Darblet!)

But you seem to be more interested in the general video processing (of the OPPO) than in the Darbee (trickery), which I can understand. Would be interesting to know, whether the Darbee processing does any good on the Avant (or on the 7-55), or if we should turn it off?

I am also very interested in hearing, if the OPPO will do the 'routing thing''. I could not find anything to clarify this - I guess it's just interesting for B&O users.

As the OPPO has two HDMI-in's it would be nice to be able to connect an ATV this way too.

MM