[BV5] Does B&O overrule the panasonic settings?

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Dear fellowmembers,

 

I've recently purchased a BV5 mkIII from 2005.

I've replaced both frame and cloth by another colour and discovered the buttons on left side below the screen.

As I couldn't resist pressing them, I saw the original panasonic menu's.

There are a lot of settings you can change!

But the question is, if I do change the settings, will B&O overrule these through the RS232 port?

Or, if I accidently change them, will B&O set them again to there own original settings?

Does anyone know this?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Beobuddy.

Location: Utrecht

Quite a challenge to achieve "Less is More" while having the Beovirus.

Sorry for not having the answers to your questions, 

just want to congratulate you on your purchase,

a lovely piece of art....

Thanks Hebo,

 

I appreciate your congratulations 🤒

 

Here is one picture.

 

 

Location: Utrecht

Quite a challenge to achieve "Less is More" while having the Beovirus.

Lovely pic, thanx Beobuddy

I promise to send you a mail if I some day get hold of such a beauty🙂

hebo wrote:

I promise to send you a mail if I some day get hold of such a beauty🙂

Are you talking about the TV or the lady? 😕

Beobuddy wrote:

Dear fellowmembers,

 

I've recently purchased a BV5 mkIII from 2005.

I've replaced both frame and cloth by another colour and discovered the buttons on left side below the screen.

As I couldn't resist pressing them, I saw the original panasonic menu's.

There are a lot of settings you can change!

But the question is, if I do change the settings, will B&O overrule these through the RS232 port?

Or, if I accidently change them, will B&O set them again to there own original settings?

Does anyone know this?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Beobuddy.

 

I have a BV5 connected to a Beosystem 3 and the changes in the Panasonic are overwritten by the BS3. According to me, most of the Panasonic settings you wil find in the BS3 menu, I don't know about an original BV5 which is in fact a BS2.

 

Hi Beogen

Can you please let us know how you have connected the BV5 to the BS3 and how old is your BV5?

Thanks

 

wow! did you change it to green? looks beautiful

[almost or exactly?] the same color as your former TV=avant ? how did you manage that ?

This morning I tried to find out.

The pana panel has some presets for video, like "cinema", "normal" and "dynamic".

So I changed the originale setting from "cinema" to "dynamic". These settings has their own settings like colour, contrast, sharpness etc.

After the change I put the tv in standby and waited for about 20 seconds.

Then I pressed "TV" and it took a several extra seconds to turn on the panel.

And again after accessing the pana menu, it says "cinema". So the orignal settings were restored!

So, I went a little further.

I changed some settings within the preset, like colour, contrast .

And again the changed video settings were set back to the original values.

I've tried changing also some sound settings, but those are not set back. Probably the sound options aren't used at all. (logically).

 

As I know that all the panels (as I'm told by the seller of profi panels) has the same RS232 instructions, I'm beginning to doubt that B&O puts their own software in the pana panels.

So, that would mean that you can change an older panel without any problems with a newer version.

Could someone confirm this?    

 

Location: Utrecht

Quite a challenge to achieve "Less is More" while having the Beovirus.
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