Roger wrote:

No new info, just me thinking out loud 😁

Roger

That would be a happy day. 

A positive

Steve at Sounds Heavenly wrote:

Hi MM,

That is an interesting thought!  Looking at the setup video, the C9 TV is programmed so that it will work from an external set-top box only, without using the TV tuner.  The Harmony then becomes the external set-top box from the LG TV's viewpoint.

The key to whether you could use BeoRemote One with just the C9 panel is to ask whether the Harmony (ie. B&O part) accepts the remote signals and passes them to the TV via HDMI, or if the TV has a bluetooth receiver that can access the BeoRemote One signals (to pass to the Harmony processor via HDMI).

Anyone know the answer please?

[EDIT]: Whilst typing my question, Michael has answered this!  The C9 panel won't function directly from a BeoRemote One, as the Harmony sound bar controls the pairing and gives instructions to the LG panel.

Kind regards, Steve.

Probably you and Michael are right - interesting though to investigate how this is done.....and if if opens up for further combinations of (LG-)tv’s and B&O sound/soundcenter/s.

@Steve - I did notice this ‘using the Harmony as an external set-top box’, but did not get how to understand this.

But why should that disable the tuners of the LG?

An ‘external set-top box’ can be many things - does not necessarily have something to do with tv tuner/s.

Would be odd to have to built-in tuners (today there are several different types of tuners) to the BeoSystem located in the stand.

The Eclipse uses the tuners of the LG-tv.

MM

Hi MM,

Looking at B&O's setup video, when the installers go into the LG TV menu, they have to choose between "TV Tuner", "Set Top Box" and "TV Tuner + Set Top Box" - they chose "Set Top Box", which implies to me that the internal TV tuner is disabled.

Kind regards, Steve.

1990 wrote:

Steve at Sounds Heavenly wrote:

[EDIT]: Whilst typing my question, Michael has answered this! The C9 panel won't function directly from a BeoRemote One, as the Harmony sound bar controls the pairing and gives instructions to the LG panel.

So we have:

The LG TV is connected through HDMI and CAT to the Sound Centre, and needs a special WebOS-B&O App installed.

The Sound Centre controls the LG tv, the surround sound, the stand and provides the screen with metadata in 'Audio mode'.

Some questions remaining:
* Can audio settings be configured through the WebOS-B&O App? (Speaker Groups?)
* Will there be controls of the B&O Sources through the WebOS-B&O App?
* Can the internal tuner of the LG tv still be used? Or will every customer be forced to use STB's and the Sound Centre-connections?
* Will there be an on screen menu for Home Control (BLGW/BLI)?

Will my-buttons work?

poodleboy wrote:

Roger wrote:

Also, B&O is getting very close to becoming an audio supplier to LG - in much the same way as they were for the car industry, before they sold the name...

Roger 

Is that new info?

B&O was with LG for audio for cellphone and TV in 2016, but that did not alot. It is now Meridian. Is there something happening newer than this?

link

 

This is a misunderstanding I have seen before on this Forum,

B&O have supplied sound/Branding to LG phones,

And LG have supplied TV to B&O

B&O have never had the same deal as MERIDIAN,

And IMO I hope that will never happen, that would be very bad for the B&O brand.

That B&O sell the Brand to Cellphone, Car audio and Laptop Audio, I understand as they do not sell those product them self (Any more)

Good questions, Emil!

Here is a link to an (the first I have seen) unboxing of the stock C9.

Millemissen wrote:

B&O would have had to engage in the whole tuner business again - unless the have been able to integrate ‘the C9-tuner option’ into the sound/stand-center.

No, today the tuner is pretty much a SOC, making it entirely a software exercise, Or you simply buy an OEM module at around 15 us$ in quantities.

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Agree, Emil - but the Harmony is a stand and sound solution only compatible with the C9 panel from LG. Same goes for the new sound bar.

Roger

Roger wrote:

. Same goes for the new sound bar.

Roger

Oh, well - and when will we be introduced to that 😉

MM