While I will agree that the product line is globalizing over time, and one day the North American forum may be relegated to answering questions strictly concerning older equipment, we aren't there yet. At the moment, even the intentionally global BeoSystem 3 chassis is listed as having 2 distinctly different socket panels available as spare parts (EU and US/JPN for the obsessive).
Some may recall not too long ago the "spirited" discussion of the BV-7 with, oh say myself and Trip, staunchly defending the qualities of a TV which we had for half a year or more before it debuted in the EU, while it turns out that the criticism was aimed at a BV-7 that we over 'there' will never see. If opinion forums can so often work at cross purposes, then I think that support forums ought to remain sequestered from one another for now. We may not have done a lot of Avants, but the BeoSystem 1 was a prety good seller, and there are a LOT of BeoCom 6000 MK1's and BeoCom 1's out there...and our BeoCom 3 wasn't like yours either.
Perhaps that's the solution for moxxey's concern...at least for the Anglosphere...make the NA forum a support forum for Video and Telephones as well as service issues, and ask that all other threads appear in the General Forum.
What say?
Russ