My advice, keep away from the DVD1 because if it needs repair it will cost more than it's worth.. I say this in this situation because you cannot test it. Make an offer on the TV alone, you'll love the Avant. It's a great TV!!

btw, if you're looking at an MX look at either an MX7000 or MX8000 as these have active speakers and much better sound. The 6000 is a basic version.

I suggest you  what the Avant is worth to you bearing in mind it is an older model and there is no remote. Something in the 60-80 region is probably fair. Other Avants come up quite regularly on eBay with a Beo4 in place so patience will have it's own rewards.

Simon

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Thanks guys - so by the sound of Lee's post on that thread, early curved-screen Avant 28s have a propensity to blow tubes but early Avant 32s are far less prone to it?

Are DVD1s known to be unreliable?

I'm quite curious how he'd had the DVD working with everything all connected up, operating it with a Beo4, but it wouldn't work just on its own.  Could it be possible that it refuses to respond to the buttons on the front of it, but works fine once you've got a remote to operate it?

The other thing is that it turns out that the remote control I got with my LX2800 is a V-Terminal, rather than an actual Beolink 1000.  It looks pretty similar, though.  Would that be able to talk to a DVD1?

The DVD1 does not have a IR-eye in it. It is operated through the connected BeoVision and its terminal. The system is called Datalink and it works trough the SCART-cable…

The DVD1 is designed to be used through a BeoVision with a Beo4 terminal, but a BeoLink 1000 will do the job too, but not with the same ease.

I am pretty sure that you cannot use the V Terminal to operate the DVD1 even if you connect it to your BeoVision LX2800, which the V Terminal was designed to control.

Later BeoVisions came with a BeoLink 1000, and the menu was redesigned, so you have to set up the sockets in a very different way from the BeoVision LX2800.

Because of the redesign of the menu, I am almost 100% sure that you cannot use the V Terminal with the later BeoVisions, they need as a minimum the BeoLink 1000, to set up sockets and operate connected equipment.

/Erik

Avant is more advanced for sure.

MX is a decent TV.

Avant has weakness of the Philips CRT Grid Cathode short circuit issue.

MX does not suffer from this.

Avant is more expensive to repair.Chassis change as opposed to component level fault finding on the MX.

MX repairs needs a qualified TV Tech` as well to repair.

That said. TV`s should always be repaired by qualified TV tech.

Thanks - I've put the deal on hold for the time being... he may well have sold it by the time I go back to him, but that's the way it goes.  I've been on night shifts for the past couple of weeks and it's amazing how time flies by.

I've bought a Beolink 1000 off eBay for £20 (it's in the post at the moment, yet to arrive) and I figure if he still has the setup then I can test the DVD1 using that.  Is that right?

The question that really puzzles me is, would a DVD1 usually refuse to work if it wasn't connected up to anything?  The vendor said he'd had it working when connected up to the Avant 32 and using the Beo4 (which was the first thing he sold) and had a picture to prove it.  

But when he tried to get it going again to show me (and I think he might be genuine on this, as he rang me to warn me before I set off to see him that there might be a problem he hadn't foreseen) he didn't have the DVD1 connected up to anything and it was refusing to respond to the buttons on the front of it being pressed.

Is that normal?

If the DVD1 aint connected by scart it will not work with a Beolink remote.

The remote signal comes from the Beovision to the DVD1 or whatever is connected.

Its funny when you look at ads for dvd1 and people asking if the remote is included.

The answer is no as DVD1 is controlled through the Beovision where a remote is standard.

yes, Frede has hit the nail on the head, the Avant or the Beovision is the key for the DVD1 to work through the scart connetor, the TV remote operates the DVD player as well, so ideally a Beo4 remote

on a separate note, I would leave WELL CLEAR of any B&O DVD player, I went through 4 of them before my dealer gave me a full refund, if you do get an Avant then get a link and buy an old DVD player off ebay that is on this list

Panasonic DMR-E50 06
Panasonic DMR-E53/DMR-E55 07
Panasonic DVD-A360 01
Panasonic DMR-EH54D 16
   
Philips DVD950 00
Philips DVDR70/DVDR75 03
Philips DVDR80 04
Philips VR200 09
Philips HDRW720 13
   
Pioneer DVDR-3100 05
Pioneer DVR-530H/DVR-630H 15
   
Sony RDR-GX3/RDR-GX7 08
Sony RDR-HX1010 17
Sony RDR-GX210

NB  I have a Panasonic DVD A360 and it plays DVD's superbly on my Avant

Friedmett wrote:

If the DVD1 aint connected by scart it will not work with a Beolink remote.

The remote signal comes from the Beovision to the DVD1 or whatever is connected.

Its funny when you look at ads for dvd1 and people asking if the remote is included.

The answer is no as DVD1 is controlled through the Beovision where a remote is standard.

 

Thank you!  But shouldn't the buttons on the front of the machine at least make it do *something* when a DVD is put in, even if there's no SCART lead connected to it?

Funnily enough I have just managed to buy a red-eye off eBay for £7, so maybe I will ditch the DVD1 idea anyway...