New product launch – beosound theatre?

[Sandyb]

@BeoMedia……Dont believe so – the only way of achieving your scenario is (and forgive me, I dont know what other speakers you have in the same room) is to directly connect a music source to your (lest say) front left and rights.

I have a music source direct (via RCA) to my BL50s (which are also powelink connected to my BV)….in that way I can keep the BV screen on (let’s say with some sport on), switch it to a centre only speaker group (muted or low vol, up to you), and then the 50s are free to play music when I trigger my music source.

So this kind of thing is do-able, provided you have speakers with power-link and some other connection options, and you have a separate music source connected that way,

 

[Millemissen]

BeoMedia wrote:

Is there really no user manual for the Theatre and app?

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As far as I am aware there is no dedicated manual (yet).

However, you can learn a lot about how the Theatre works reading the articles in the blog of Geoff Martin………
…..starting here/86:

https://www.tonmeister.ca/wordpress/page/2/

P.S.  The app is still a work in progress – a manual for this would have to be edited many times in the coming months.
You can find a lot of hints to setting up Listening Positions in this thread.

MM

[Severed_hand_of_skywalker]

Anyone else having their Theatre hard crash every couple weeks? I get a flashing white light on the front with nothing working and the only solution is to unplug it to reboot.

[NQVHNWI]

I think 3 issues I’ve seen:-

1. Changing PUC on an active source hangs the BeoApp and limits BR1. Factory reset

2. Changing BR1 names in Lists hangs the BR1 rename. Factory reset.

3. Yesterday, LG updated and the Theatre/BeoApp hung up needing a soft reboot

[beojeff]

I haven’t seen the mentioned issues. However, I’ve been seeing for weeks that if the Theatre has been in standby for over about an hour that starting the Theatre does not turn on the LG screen. If the Theatre has been sent to standby and is restarted within a short time, then the LG screen turns on and there is no problem.

[NQVHNWI]

Beojeff,

I have heard this problem from someone on the forum. I do not experience the issues you discribe above on my G2 Panel.

I suggested previously that people check the LG screen functions. IIRC, there are two settings for quick-start (quick start+ and the 2nd I cant find 🙁  or not sure if its a combo of another setting plus quick start+)

This may help, but I think others reported it did not?

[NQVHNWI]

Incidentally, I think Millemissen was asking about muting the picture?

I dont think this is the exact same thing, but again in the LG Panel settings, energy savings, you can kill the picture off.

I dont think this can be mapped to the BR1 except for MyButtons but maybe a feature request?

[Millemissen]

Muting the picture would be for when you listen to music, that comes from a video source e.g. a Bluray Player or the ATV/Apple Music….
…..and just want sound.

This was part of previous BV’s, called ‘P.Mute’.

I can imagine that this will be hard to achieve with the seperated LG screen – nonetheless I asked…..just in case there should be a solution.

MM

[NQVHNWI]

The only other way to do it is to thumb-down List >> Options OSM and continue to thumb down to power savings, screen off.

I know of P.mute as per previous Beovisions. That is why there is no direct mapping to a function within the LG settings. Im sure B&O will get on with it as the last update before EoL of the Theatre?

Edit: Which, given the problems they have incurred with a lot of early LG panels having burn-in issues, you would think they implement as a lesson learnt (and you did buy a Beosound – not a Beovision)

[etype76]

I’m following this thread in a linear fashion and picking up some great info so sorry if I’m throwing out Qs that seem to be off topic.

What kind of expectations can I have regarding sound quality through the Line-in adaptor? As I said previously, increasing the gain on my phono pre-amp helped but still it’s not great. Some muddiness  and the cracks and pops are pretty audible over my previous system. It’s making me think about changing my pre-amp but I wonder if that adapter will always be the weakest link to play from a Beogram.

[Millemissen]

I hardly ever see or use the LG menu/OS (after having set everything up).
And I am not interested in a workaround.
However, since the screen mutes when you go from a video source to an audio source (e.g. B&O Radio), it must be possible to do this….and create an entry in the List for it.

We’ll see – in any case I will put that on my ‘wishlist’ for the support.

MM

[BeoMedia]

Try adjusting the input sensitivity on the BeoSound Theatre instead and see if that improves. It is in the settings.

[BeoMedia]

I also liked this function on the previous BeoVisions.
Would it work if you did AV-TV to the BeoSound Theatre. I.e. pull in the audio from the video aource to the speaker while it wouldn’t turn on the LG display?

That approach used to work on older BeoVisions as well.

[Hutsefruts]

Hi

As a fresh new owner using it a couple a days now i see the Beosound Theatre does evidently not handle DTS audio streams? Is that correct? No sound from several movie files I’m runing  of which I expect they only have DTS audio inside as audio stream.

Any chance if so that DTS audio capability (codec) becomes available later on?  (license cost of it should be peanuts i guess).

Furthermore, very satisfied and curious about further developments as this product matures in the near future

[Severed_hand_of_skywalker]

Hutsefruts wrote:

Hi As a fresh new owner using it a couple a days now i see the Beosound Theatre does evidently not handle DTS audio streams? Is that correct? No sound from several movie files I’m runing of which I expect they only have DTS audio inside as audio stream. Any chance if so that DTS audio capability (codec) becomes available later on? (license cost of it should be peanuts i guess). Furthermore, very satisfied and curious about further developments as this product matures in the near future

Correct is does not and I wouldn’t hold my breath on it. Not sure they can even add the feature without billing us customers after the fact?

[NQVHNWI]

I think B&O have been hammered endlessly in the past for going their own way with standards and have listened it seems to their customers and integrated the “current hot potato” of movie sound formats: Dolby Atmos.

People can argue this way or that but despite the success of the BS Theatre, and it’s price point, they won’t be selling thousands of them like the mainstream manufacturers. As a consequence, I guess they needed to lockdown a design and a licence, rather than trying to buy them (formats) all in.

[Mark]

What’s interesting is that the Harmony and Eclipse supports DTS but the Contour does not. DTS is not that big of a deal for me since I have an LG G2 that does not support DTS, but it would be nice to have it on the Theatre.  I could plug the device directly into the Theatre which is a really nice option.

[beojeff]

Most blu-ray/UHD players should be able to decode the DTS and then send sound to the Theatre. Where we really need the Theatre for decoding is with DTS:X and the new DTS:X Pro formats.

I think that B&O is making a mistake in listening to claims that only Dolby and Dolby Atmos are the only formats needed because DTS is hardly ever used in streaming (excepting the Kaleidescape system — which is a difference creature altogether and more downloading than streaming). For people with lower-end audio systems, streaming might be fine. However, with higher performing speakers that you get with B&O you can tell a HUGE, MASSIVE difference between streaming and physical disc (or Kaleidescape). In looking through my huge blu-ray/UHD collection, I was surprised to see how many titles really do use DTS.

[Mark]

I didn’t even think that my 4K players have DTS!  I bought a Panasonic 4k player out of fear that when my Oppo 203 dies, there wouldn’t be any good players left.

Since some of the BeoVisions support DTS, is it really a licensing issue for the Theatre?

 

[beojeff]

Mr10Percent wrote:

I think B&O have been hammered endlessly in the past for going their own way with standards and have listened it seems to their customers and integrated the “current hot potato” of movie sound formats: Dolby Atmos. People can argue this way or that but despite the success of the BS Theatre, and it’s price point, they won’t be selling thousands of them like the mainstream manufacturers. As a consequence, I guess they needed to lockdown a design and a licence, rather than trying to buy them (formats) all in.

Do you see many DTS:X movies on your new Kaleidescape?

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