Hello Marc,

The DVI input on early Beovision 7s just give the picture, so you would need a separate connection for the sound.  You would normally use an HDMI cable ( link ) and DVI adapter ( link ) for the picture, plus a twin RCA cable for the sound (

I have just done the same thing. Add PC to your Beo4 remote and select it to open the DVI socket. On some earlier models you also need to connect the analogue sound output from decoder to the L & R audio input sockets .

Ron

Thank you Steve & Ron for your quick answers ! 🤒

I will try soon this evening.

Marc

Hi Steve,.I am trying to connect a SKY Q box to a beovision 7-40 via the DVI input.I have a HDMI-DVI cable and an optical digital out cable connected to a DAC with a single rca coming out.Could you let me know what I have to do in the connections menu to access the source plugged into the DVI connection and the rca audio input? Thanks in advance.I hope I have explained what I am trying to do clearly enough Thanks.Alan

Hi Alan,

Thanks for your enquiry, I had forgotten about this thread from back in 2016!  Technology has moved on in the past four years...

I am very sorry but I am not aware of any way reliably use current streaming devices such as Amazon Firestick, Sky Q, Chromecast, Apple TV, etc. with older TVs that don't have HDMI sockets fitted.  Adapters or converters don't usually work well, as the HDCP protection software in the streaming device can turn off the signal unless a TV with an HDMI socket is detected.

For this reason, I have to apologise that the solutions which I would have suggested a few years ago can't be recommended now.  I am sorry that I don't currently have a solution to use these devices with non-HDMI TVs, but maybe someone else on the forum has an up-to-date solution that they can suggest?

Kind regards, Steve.

Hello Adam,

It could mean that the 'single RCA' is a digital SPDIF coaxial output. Some newer BeoVision 7 TVs will accept that as an audio input, my older BV7-32 does not.

My way to connect the an Apple TV is as follows.

Apple TV > (HDMI cable) > HDMI Audio Extractor > (HDMI to DVI cable) > BeoVision 7

plus:

HDMI Audio Extractor > (stereo RCA (red and white) audio cable) > BeoVision 7

I have made the (stereo!) audio connections to the L/R (red and white) stereo connections at AV4, in the menu set audio to 'none' and  HDTV to DVI-I.

When your BeoVision does accept the digital coax SPDIF input (the single RCA), you could put it to sockets A1 to A4 and choose the same in the connections menu.

Hope this helps! Let us know if you get it running, it would be great to keep on using such a nice TV a bit longer in the ever changing electrnics world!

Regards,

Johan

Hello Jacob, welcome to the forum!

It is a "DeLock HDMI Audio Extractor 4K compact" that I got for some EUR 30 at Amazon. Let us know how you get on :-).

Good luck, Johan

Thanks for the quick feedback! 

Just ordered one, let's see if it works in my setup ;-)

/jacob