As long as you are prepared to be patient, it may be best to wait for a donor TV to come up as non-working on eBay as non-working B&O TV's from that era routinely attract no bids at all so it should cost you very little.

Simon

If it is an L rather than an LS or LX with the screen missing, you will need to change the whole of the front section ... trying to mount a contrast screen on the standard L front will result in misery ... I know ... it happened to me.

I have a screen, but not the front plastic section.

Neil

Hi:

I was going to buy this too based on the archive photo that was at the top of the bid. It looked really nice. A quality period piece. Then I scrolled down and saw the pictures of the actual item for sale and thought that it didn't look half as nice. Perhaps the contrast screen makes all the difference. I guess it makes the "box" of the set look more uniform.

 Either that or it was/is an absolute pig of a set and b&o commissioned a photographer to photograph it at its most flattering angle!

Thanks

Graham

The LX is quite a beautiful beast ... I was watching my father's last night ... the piano black with polished aluminium trim ... looks contemporary even now, 20 years on.

If you are "STILL" waiting for LCD and PLASMA to catch up, you wont go far wrong with this!

I was in a very large branch of Tescos (Supermarket) yesterday and they had maybe 50 flat screen TVs of all sizes, brands  and prices in there all showing the same SD terrestial TV output. I didn't think a single one of them had a picture that looked as good as my LS5500 would have done displaying the same output. Many of them had truly horrible PQ.The idea that you can improve picture quality for normal non-HD broadcasts by upgrading from CRT to LCD is the biggest con trick foisted on the buying public since the oil companies convinced everyone that cars running on lead-free petrol are environmentally friendly. There are reasons to go flat-panel, but day to day viewing of SD broadcasts isn't one of them!

Simon

cheers guys

I am picking it up on Thursday so I guess I will see how it looks from then - I get the remote anyway so that is a plus

I reckon a bit of love and some TLC and the TV will scrub up nice - but I agree - the stock photo looked awesome - I often find that pictures do not do justice to stuff like this - I tried to get a good pic of my MX4000 when I cleaned that and I could just not get one looking anywhere near as nice as the naked eye

If you ever get the chance, go for the successors of the LX4500 (25") / LX5500 (28").

The LX5000 (25") or the LX6000 (28"). The picture quality is even better. The light sensor on the LX4500/LX5500 only adjusts the contrast, but the sensor on the LX5000/6000 also adjusts the colour and brightness during the day. They also have the newer Black Line/Black matrix screens (better black levels).

The speakers of the LX4500 / LX5000 (25") are quite impressive, but the speakers of the LX5500 / LX6000 (28") are even better (Bass-reflex speakers).