Calvin wrote:

I have a BV7 up on my wall that I purely use as a computer monitor for work and occasional youtube or BBC iPlayer. I was thinking about (my wife asked me about) being able to watch regular TV on it and I guess that my options are either

Get a proper TV decoder box that's B&O compatible, run cables down the inside of the wall and have to switch sources when I change Get a USB adaptor, plug the ariel into the back of the Mac and be able to click onto local stations in a web browser or the dock

Two seems easier/tidier but there's also a mountain of "computer tv adaptors" and I guess there's good ones and bad ones. Anyone have experience with these things?

The North American version of the BV7 has a built-in ATSC tuner. Just connect an antenna and it will receive OTA (over the air) broadcasts. The tuner can be accessed by pressing the DTV button on the Beo 4 remote.

Regards,

Jean

I'm wondering whether that's only certain models or it needs to be enabled as a firmware thing? If I click DTV on the Beo4 model (middle left button at the top) it does nothing. That (and the TV showing static) is what lead me to believe you need a decoder box.

I don't know about that B&O TV, but if you see static rather than complete black, that suggests there is some tuner, attempting to tune onto *something* -- perhaps an old analog frequency (e.g. tuning to 12 rather than 12.1)?  In answer to your original question, I keep an old Mac Mini running EyeTV under MacOS 10.6.8, and either use an old EyeTV box or a networked Silicon Dust "HDHomeRun" box.  Surely more modern solutions exist, but with an old TV and ATSC 3.0 on the way, inexpensive used equipment fills the bill.

I am currently using my BV7-40 with its ATSC tuner and it works well. Check if the DTV input has been reassigned to some other function. If you press MENU after the DTV input has been selected, you should see a menu using a different font showing options to search channels, etc. If no, it has been reassigned to another input and you need to assign it again with the tuner. To my knowledge, all versions of the North American BV7 has a built-in ATSC tuner.

Good luck,

Jean

To ensure that the ATSC tuner is enabled, press the V.MEM button on the Beo 4, select TV TUNER and set ATSC to ON if it is not. (I just checked on mine).

Good luck,

Jean

When I click DTV on the Beo4, the screen on the remote changes (so the button is working) but the TV does nothing at all and there's no sign of ATSC in the menus. It's like it doesn't know what DTV is. To clarify, the back of it says BeoVision 7 (Model 9371)

(I guess I'll post a new page on the forum if I don't hear back anything further seeing as this is no longer about Mac tuners)

Then do the procedure with the V.MEM button described above to see if ATSC is enabled or not and enable it.

Jean