Great schematic!  What program did you use to create this?

MESM wrote:

Schematic view:

 

I'm a bit curious. Why do you have RCA cables from your devices to the BS3?? And how come you have both a Mac Mini and an Apple TV??

Toubro wrote:

I'm a bit curious. Why do you have RCA cables from your devices to the BS3?? And how come you have both a Mac Mini and an Apple TV??

AFAIK, BS3 can not distribute the sound from the digital signal (HDMI) from the four sources (CableTV, PS3, AppleTV and MiniMac) through MasterLink, so it is needed a analog L+R RCA from each one of this source.

The Mac mini:

• manages/stores my media collection (music, movies, videos and photos)
• provides a DVD / CD player (also useful to rip)
• it is a player to AppleTV2 non-supported formats

The AppleTV2:

• provides a nice interface to media library in the Mac Mini
• has a lot of resources to deal with different sources/media and renting resources
• has no storage at all

kfbilly wrote:

Great schematic!  What program did you use to create this?

MESM wrote:

Toubro wrote:

I'm a bit curious. Why do you have RCA cables from your devices to the BS3?? And how come you have both a Mac Mini and an Apple TV??

AFAIK, BS3 can not distribute the sound from the digital signal (HDMI) from the four sources (CableTV, PS3, AppleTV and MiniMac) through MasterLink, so it is needed a analog L+R RCA from each one of this source.

The Mac mini:

 

• manages/stores my media collection (music, movies, videos and photos)
• provides a DVD / CD player (also useful to rip)
• it is a player to AppleTV2 non-supported formats

 

The AppleTV2:

 

• provides a nice interface to media library in the Mac Mini
• has a lot of resources to deal with different sources/media and renting resources
• has no storage at all

 

How does the PUC codes works for Mac Mini and Apple TV? Do you use them at all?

MESM wrote:

Toubro wrote:

I'm a bit curious. Why do you have RCA cables from your devices to the BS3?? And how come you have both a Mac Mini and an Apple TV??

AFAIK, BS3 can not distribute the sound from the digital signal (HDMI) from the four sources (CableTV, PS3, AppleTV and MiniMac) through MasterLink, so it is needed a analog L+R RCA from each one of this source.

 

Ahh, didn't think about that. Thanks for clearing that up.

It is a shame that HDMI can't send via link or that B&O internally in the BS3 can not downscale HDMI. I am using analog signal (video+sound) for 3 HDMI sources (DTV, BM5 and Tvix). Its a struggle to get all those cables stored away in the rear of the BV7 :-)

Hmm, I just came to think about it, the limitation lies in the HDMI, if the sound input to the BS3 was SPDIF, would you then still need additional cables in order to distribute the sound in the link?

beolion wrote:

Hmm, I just came to think about it, the limitation lies in the HDMI, if the sound input to the BS3 was SPDIF, would you then still need additional cables in order to distribute the sound in the link?

AFAIK, BS3 does not convert the digital audio signal (from HDMI or from SPDIF) to analog to be send via MasterLink.

I hope someone has a solution for this or, at least, explain why.

Okay, think this is time for a new thread guys 😎,.... I want more B&O Setup eyecandy!