The_Beonic_Man wrote:

That's a fair enough viewpoint Rednik but I think its naieve to make sweeping statements and assumptions about other people who you actually don't know. I am curious, had you of seen the blue lines on the TV in your dealership at the time of purchase, would you still have bought it?

Simon.

Yes.  Maybe you have a more serious issue than I see, and like I say I don't mean to offend.  The blue lines down the side of my screen are there at all times on certain sky channels, but they really are not a big deal, I can easily ignore them and enjoy the TV but if someone points them out they are definatley there.  My wife had never noticed them before and when I just pointed the out they annoyed her for a few minutes as she kept looking at them.  I changed back to BBC1 for a while and she forgot about them, back to More $ and they are still there but she isn't bothered any more.

I had a friend here the other week who couldn't watch my BV7 because of the reflection of a window on the screen.  I look straight through it and don't see it.  Maybe I can easily ignore things that annoy other people immensley - maybe that's why I'm with my wife :-)

rednik wrote:

However, if I had a major fault like my TV crashing I would think differently, but like I said, it doesn't, and I can easily live with a bit of blue down the side of the image

I think my MKIV is crashing due to some bizarre HDCP issue involving the BV7-40->Sky->BV8 setup I have, across two rooms. If they BV8 is left on, the BV7-40 rarely crashes. If the BV7-40 is on with the BV8 off, it crashes more frequently. When it does crash though, the BV8 carries on showing the Sky programme and is response to the remote commands....proving it's the BV7-40 MKIV at fault. The Sky box doesn't crash.

I'm waiting for the dealer to get back to me on this (again).

Would a trip to John Lewis to see how the competition look on these Sky channels reveal whether this is B & O or Sky? 

That's a good point actually Peter, thanks. I am in Bath later today so I'll check out Curry's to see what's happening.

Cheers,
Simon.

I've heard that Sky have started to receive more complaints about this and it may only take a few more folk from the B&O/BSkyB Sky+HD combination customer base to mention it before it would go onto a 'feature request' process at Sky to be investigated.

I have a friend who is in the development team at BSkyB and I would mention to them but in a way I'm also slightly embarrassed that my £10k telly has such a problem, it is noticeable but I've been told that the wideness of my dark blue lines is no-where near the worst example that can be seen.

I think that B&O holding up their hands is not a great response.

I have seen this on a friends LG tv.

This is the fix

With tv switched to sky, press menu twice to bring up B&O menu.  Choose options then picture.  There is an option 'size', one click to the right should do it

This does not work if you access the menu via tv, because the size option is greyed out

Let me know if this works

Yes there is as my Bv7-40 Mk3 had it but there is not on the Bv7-32!

Hi

I have played with my settings and worked a solution to this

if i have sky set to 720p then the blue lines appear on HD channels

if i have it set to 1080p then the blue lines appear on the SD channels

if set to automatic the lines are gone but the screen flickers when changing from sd and hd channel, blue lines are black.

Sorry , bionic man, in addition to my previous post, I should have made clear that the tv should be switched to sky AND to an HD channel. I have also changed resolution in sky settings to 'automatic'.  This really is the perfect solution.  I get no problems at all on HD, SD or analogue tv,