Had the same issue with a BV10-40. These displays are all very very specific and you´ll get obsolete searching for replacement. There is simply none - not even on EBay.

The issue with these BV10´s is that the have another priciple of operating then regular TVs have, Normally the backlit illumination is controlled by the mainboard and fed with power directly via the power supply print.

In the BV´s, there´s a customized T-Con-Board that has a data-communication interface to the dimmer-board of the backlight. This means that if your display fails then you´d have to replace the whole display-unit. If you only replace it with a spare-part from another (Samsung-)TV then you´ll find out that the new panel will fit into the frame from the phyiscal dimensions but can´t be adressed electronically. You´ll simply get no control signal to the backlight. That´s the really annoying *** about this TV ...

I´ve been looking around to find a replacement display (even from other Samsung TV-Sets) - no success so far - please do keep me informed when you have an idea! Good luck so far!

Cheers,

R.

Thanks for the detailed reply sir.You've obviously put time in on this issue.It seems incredible that such a well made item can be deemed scrap,but yet another sad example of B&O's current attitude to product support.?

Regards,

Nick

This idea is total pie-in-the-sky, and doesn't really help you, but I'd like to put it in this thread for other BeoVision 10-46 owners to at least think about: Build a Hackintosh!  What I mean is: Keep the case and the speakers but replace the screen and the electronics with more modern (or at least working, in your case) components.  The metal case of a PowerMac G5 was a work of industrial art, and people have torn out all the innards and replaced it with a PC, hacked to run OSX.  

I can imagine how to do the BV speaker system, without having to know what the engineers did to EQ it: a MiniDSP plus Hypex Class-D amps. (The BV10-46 speaker system wasn't such great shakes anyway.)  BeoLink 1000 remote control translation can be done with a Lintronic box.  Mounting the display is a problem, and carving up the boards will be model-specific.  The hardest part to get perfect, as with Hackintoshes, is matching the rear panel and the power supply/airflow.  

What would be missing from such a BeoHack is what BeoNuts want, namely the multi-room multi-system integration.  But I like the BV10-46 for the way it looks, and everything else is above average but nothing special.  (Here in the USA even the antenna ports are capped because it doesn't have a tuner.)  So emulating it doesn't seem like a huge amount of work, because you're only aiming for good-enough.

I have a BO television BV10-40 installed new in June 2013, and faulty since July 2018.

The diagnostic has been determined as a faulty T-con card. I am explained by BO that the entire LCD panel (the television itself) needs to be replaced (as the T-con card is inside the LCD panel and cannot be changed separately!) and this is not possible as the model is obsolete ... after 5 years.

I do not accept such a commercial strategy of a Company such as BO: dropping customers after 5 years explaining them that what they have purchased is obsolete and just needs to be replaced by a new equipment!

I have written to Mr Henrik Clausen, the President of BO in Denmark, explaining the above situation and I got a response from the BO Customer Service explaining the same: they cannot do anything for me. I just have to purchase a new system!

This situation is not acceptable to customers of BO who do pay a high market price for an expected reliable product which is declared obsolete after 5 years, in my case.

I propose to the colleagues of this forum to make their problems with BO equipments known around them and to write to the President of BO in Denmark for him to realise that such a commercial strategy is not acceptable to customers. In my particular case, BO should provide a replacement T-con card and I can see around the forum that other BO equipments remain faulty because of lack of replacement parts.

Good day to all, Francis.

Yes, you are completely right. It is a shame how thesedays the customers are treated.

But do you really believe that Mr. Henrik Clausen or any of the guy from B&O management don't know that???

Of course they are aware of that, I would even say that this IS the actual commercial strategy. Of course this is nothing special for B&O, almost all players on the market are doing the same... That's the time we are living in. Nobody wants to produce the product which last forever. Turbo capitalism, that's the name of it ...

And do you think that hundreds or even thousand emails or complaints would change anything? No way...

All those manager looks only to their next bonus-milestone. 2-3 years contract, next stop...

I am pretty sure that these T-Con boards could be repaired at the component level. Would it be possible to ask the service technician if they have an idea about which component failed on the board? As the problem appears to be common in all BV 10 TVs, this is probably the same components that fail in all of them. It is very frustrating to discard a TV that costs several thousands of dollars just for a transistor or chip that cost only a few dollars.

The modern way of repairing electronic equipment  by swapping boards simplifies greatly the service procedure, but at the expense of reducing significantly the useful life of goods. When the inventory of replacement boards is exhausted, the products can no longer be repaired. With repairs at the component level, electronic equipment can last decades. Older B&O equipment of the 70s through 90s (and even older) can still be repaired.

Regards,

Jean

Has anyone figured this out yet? Or found a panel that works? Is the backlight control really needed/important?

Has anyone figured this out yet? Or found a panel that works? Is the backlight control really needed/important?

Hi, the T-Con is separate from the LCD Panel 6 screws, not a problem to replace but finding one is, usually from a 10-46 with faulty chassis!

BV 10-46 MK1 has a diffrent Panel Type as that from a MK2 this means a different T-Con,

I have a BV10-46 MK1 with faulty T-Con but I only managed to buy a T-Con from ebay for a MK2 BV10-46

MK2 has 3 HDMI connections

BV10-40 T-Cons can also use T-Cons salvaged from BV 7-40s

Regards Douglas Cunningham