Posts by JoC (archived)
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Recent purchase - Eames Lounge Chair
in LifeStyle Discussion · Aug 25, 2009 16:03Very nice setup. Can I ask what is the BV7 sitting on, I have been looking for something low, yet deep to put my BV7 on, and that actually looks very nice - for what I can see of it. Thanks.
Best NAS Server for use with a PS3
in General Discussion & Questions · Aug 25, 2009 14:05[quote user="scott451"] i have been looking at a qnap nas solution to serve media files for my stb. i have two, slightly off-topic, questions. * is the license for twonky included, or is it a trial version ? * what made …
Best NAS Server for use with a PS3
in General Discussion & Questions · Aug 23, 2009 04:38Well a Nas is just a that, a mini computer... Just packaged very small(ish), and designed to do the one job - to store data. Even your WD World Edition is just a Linux computer with an ARM9 processor. Nas's from the like…
Best NAS Server for use with a PS3
in General Discussion & Questions · Aug 21, 2009 07:27At the moment I am using a QNAP TS-509 , it's populated with 5*1.5 TB disks, currently storing about 5500+ TV & DVD rips, so approx 2.5TB of storage used, with only another 3TB to fill 🙂. It streams to the PS3 via the b…
BV7-40 MKIV specs?
in General Discussion & Questions · May 8, 2009 07:18The only details I have are from an email from my dealer, sparse to sat the least, but here goes... <snip> Visually the television remains the same but with 2 important upgrades: Blu-Ray Player The DVD player has been re…
Updates
in General Discussion & Questions · May 5, 2009 18:27[quote user="moxxey"] [quote user="Peter2"] Trade - in value may be painful now, but only if you opt in to the upgrade game :) [/quote] But the whole point in B&O was that it kept an excellent trade-in value. I guess I'm…
Updates
in General Discussion & Questions · May 4, 2009 07:52I was talking to my dealer, and to get swap out the MKIII for the MKIV I would have to pay in the region of approx £3.5k (but then I suppose we do get an upgraded screen, BluRay, and whatever the new BeoSystem3 can do!!)…
Bang & Olufsen Virtuoso Card
in General Discussion & Questions · Apr 3, 2009 07:38I never heard of the card, but when I went to buy my BV7-40, the dealer told me about it. So I paid for half the TV when I signed the order, then the other half a few days before the years interest free credit ran out, w…
PRIZE DRAW date. A rethink, perhaps??
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 3, 2009 18:42Hmmm, just checked, 24 in IE and 339 in FireFox...
PRIZE DRAW date. A rethink, perhaps??
in General Discussion & Questions · Feb 3, 2009 18:07Well according to the front page the next draw won't happen for about another 339 days. So I think whatever option is chosen, it'll give plenty of time for us all to arange our schedules 😕
bv7-40 w.a.f. situation
in General Discussion & Questions · Nov 29, 2008 04:58From the bottom of the DVD, to the stand base is about 23cm, when the DVD is opened this drops to about 21.5cm. The height of the BL3 is 23cm (top of the acoustic lens bit), and about 20cm if ignoring the acoustic lens. …
bv7-40 w.a.f. situation
in General Discussion & Questions · Nov 28, 2008 13:35Here is a photo of my BV7-40 on the motorized tablestand, I decided to go for this because my ceiling comes down quite low. I already had the BL8000s, but I'm thinking of getting the BL9s or BL3s instead so the height di…
Prize Draw October
in General Discussion & Questions · Oct 31, 2008 18:08PrizeDrawBot: Sixth Prize - A B&O Gift direct from Struer - we have a Bang & Olufsen branded Rucksack with more pockets than you would ever need, and a very natty mobile phone holder on one of the straps! Very high quali…
Beovision 9 SKY HD Lip Sync
in General Discussion & Questions · Oct 25, 2008 05:21Yes HDMI can do 5.1, uncompressed audio etc, but as far as I am aware there is a limitation of the Sky+HD box, as it can't do 5.1 over the HDMI. As for the lip sync problems alot of people seem to be having them, the pep…
IR to BR converter
in General Discussion & Questions · Sept 7, 2008 13:32mr_anders_son: I have it, but buy this instead: http://www.schmartstuff.com/ Hmmm sounds interesting, but was wondering, If I decided to get this item, what STB would I set the PS3 to be in the BV7 connections menu.
BV7-40 mkIII doesn't show PS3 start-up or bluray
in General Discussion & Questions · Jul 2, 2008 09:38seanklemis: I did not think of the reset settings function i have used this b4 i woudl liek ot ask I have just ordered my MK3 and willbe connecting PS3 to my TV via HDMI and wanted to know if you have the HDMI and SPDIF …
BV7-40 mkIII doesn't show PS3 start-up or bluray
in General Discussion & Questions · Jul 1, 2008 11:15If the PS3 is off, press and hold the power on button for about 10secs, the PS3 will beep, and the video/audio settings will be reset, you can then step through the PS3 init procedure again. Sometimes on mine I loose the…
Sw 4.24 has now arrived for BV7-40/BS3/BV9
in General Discussion & Questions · Jun 30, 2008 16:22moxxey: JoC: Good news that the playback of BluRays are a tad better, bad news that the 'white flash' is STILL happening. It was eliminated in Blu-ray playback in sw 4.01. The latest sw 4.24 seems to prevent the white fl…
Are you using a NAS to store your media?
in Beo-Mac · Jun 30, 2008 15:54jk1002: I settled on the readynas duo. The ReadyNas Duo is very nice, and a good NAS, but a big brother to the Duo (the Pro) is about to be released in the next month or so, it has 6 bays instead of 2. If you could hold …
Sw 4.24 has now arrived for BV7-40/BS3/BV9
in General Discussion & Questions · Jun 30, 2008 15:41moxxey: Back on the original topic. I've had my BV7-40 MKIII upgraded to sw 4.24a this afternoon. I'm actually slightly disappointed. The white flash hasn't completely disappeared - you still see it in 1080p mode, when v…