Last year i delivered a pair of speakers to a customer, and connected them to his BeoMaster 7000 that was taking a feed from his new Pioneer Plasma screen.

All through my install, he was singing the praises of his new screen and his new Sky HD box. He turned it on, and to be honest, the picture was pretty awful.  I didn't say anything though as it may have looked like sour grapes that he didn't buy a B&O screen.

He told me the installer, a young man, had done a wonderful job of hiding the cables - but seemed a little unsure about the connections. He asked me to check if everything was okay.  I politely said it really wasn't my job to judge others work as i'm not a qualified installer myself, and that was the end of it.

However, upon packing up my things - i took a little look on his Sky HD box settings when he went out of the room. 1080p output, check... 16:9 format on the output, check... Plasma screen, so contrast on medium (my personal preference), check... Hmmm.. all seems fine, but still a rubbish image on BBC HD and Luxe TV (the best channels for HD).

It was only as i put his remote back on the stand/cabinet and peered round the back that i noticed there was no HDMI cable... nowhere!  The Sky HD box was connected to the screen with a SCART Lead !!!!!!  😂😂😂

My 'blooper' was very discrete.  I mentioned that 'the installer really needs to be called out to check the cabling he has used. He may wish to reconsider which connections he has chosen' and left it at that...

Lee

 i took a little look on his Sky HD box settings when he went out of the room. 1080p output..............

Was this one of those special SKY boxes that is like no other that outputs at 1080p rather than 720p? :)

Not sure if this qualifies because I said nothing in response (for a change).

A potential buyer of a Beovision 4 HD plasma that I was selling was deciding between my item and that offered by a local Suffolk-based dealer.  He was aware that I had to transport the screen over 100 miles.  And so was the dealer!

He decided to go with the package offered by the dealer and when I queried what had made him choose their package he repeated what the dealer had told him.

'A lof of pixels will fall out if transported over that distance.'

I couldn't make it up, so fair play to the dealer.

Now that was brilliant!

😂

KingOfSnake wrote:

Was this one of those special SKY boxes that is like no other that outputs at 1080p rather than 720p? :)

If you look in the settings in the Setup menu, you can choose 720 or 1080 output in there - the 1080 giving  'everything it's got'....  I'm fully aware that no Sky signal is true 1080!! 🙂

Lee

I use to be an auditor in Sydney.  During the Festive season I went into David Jones which has a B&O outlet and complemented Matt on their unusual Christmas Trees(BeoLab5).  This was after telling him that the Beo Com2 was a Phallus symbol.  He took it very well. H

KingOfSnake wrote:

 

'A lof of pixels will fall out if transported over that distance.'

I couldn't make it up, so fair play to the dealer.

didn't know pixels fell out!! Oh wow that is gullible...

A year or two after I had got my first plasma a panasonic PW4 my best mate phoned me up all excited about his purchase of a Samsung plasma he had just bought & had installed, not wanting to dent his pride I kept my mouth shut. A few days later when I was round there he was showing it off ( looked great turned off!) telling me how the lads had done a fantastic install, the picture looked awful so I said have they connected it up correctly & he assured me it was all done properly but it looked so bad that I said they must have it running on composite, well it got the better of me so proceeded to tell him that they couldn't have done & set about rectifying it whilst telling him that connecting by RGB will make the picture much better. Well I bet you can guess it was already connected by RGB so cue lots of well it could be a dodgy cable etc.

Moral of that story is don't buy Samsung

beolife wrote:

Moral of that story is don't buy Samsung

Better tell B&O that...