[deaddruid]

Has anyone found a way to get the Product Configuration Guide (PCG) to run on Linux under the Wine application? It installs fine, but when I try running version 2.7.0 under Wine, I get an “Internal VXT error”, which is generally connected with printer drivers!

Mark

• This reply was modified 16 hours, 18 minutes ago by deaddruid.

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Ah! That makes a lot of sense. It does imply that I need to get the B&O technician to set up the NL/ML converter, though, so it’ll be important to plan out future upgrades to get those included, too.

It was the use of BLC in the diagram that made me think it was talking about the 1611 BLC, rather than the NL/ML converter (you used the correct term, but the diagram didn’t – hence my confusion).

Thank you for all your help.

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Just thinking about the diagram that you referenced…

The two ML networks are connected through back-to-back BLCs. How does one access the other? Is it (for example, from Core) N.RADIO gets network radio, whilst LINK, N.RADIO gets the phono from the second ML network?

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

OK, thank you for the clarification – it’s very helpful. Now I can plan out what we need to do.

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Also depending on software versions most of the products should be able to work as link room products (option 5 or 6) and be able to get the source from the Audiomaster with a Link + Source command.

I’m not sure whether I understand you correctly here. I’m familiar with the idea that a link room TV can access the sources attached to the video master. With later link room TVs, it was unnecessary to press LINK before the required source, as long as the link room TV didn’t have that source itself. However the LINK prefix command simply meant “get this next thing from the video master, not a local device”.

Are you suggesting that if (say) the BC2 is the audio master, there may be a way to access the BS3200 via the BC2 over MasterLink, by using the LINK command?

Or did you simply mean that commands can be routed to the audio master by using the LINK prefix (which is what I’m used to)?

Mark

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 4 days ago by deaddruid.

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Mark C, thank you for making such a wonderful offer to the group. Unfortunately I was overseas at the time, or I’d have rushed up to Leeds!

Mark T

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Safely home now from such a wonderful trip.

A big thank you to Mark C for not only planning and arranging such a great time, but also for taking time to escort us. It must have been a bit of a busman’s holiday looking after us B&O fans, when you could have been busy back at Multicare.

Please pass our thank you back to B&O for letting their staff spend so much time with us, to the museum guys with their enthusiasm and to our favourite Beonist Grethe for bringing history to life.

Also an extra thank you to Pepps for sharing your travel plans. It helped us to plan our own smooth route to and from Struer.

Mark and Janet

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Highlight for me was speaking with the lady in the repair dept who replaces the large surface-mount chips. She was really enthusiastic about her work.

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Pepps, sorry to take so long to reply, but I’ve been pretty much offline for the last month. Anyway, all sorted now!

Your plan seemed good, so we’ve gone for a variation of it: LHR to CPH, then the 1119 train to Struer. Looking forward to lots of scenery!

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Thank you, pepps. I was looking at flying to Billund, but as you say, the flight times are not so great. Still planning…!

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Has anyone from the UK sorted out their travel arrangements yet? If so, would you care to share your findings on the best way to travel, and why you rejected the alternatives?

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

That’s a shame. It also seems to go against B&O’s usual approach of only making visible those options that are available to you.

I’ve been trying to establish what is meant by “a 3D TV”, but haven’t yet found a website to explain it. In fact, I get the feeling that all the many websites that claim to have their “experts” give the “lowdown” on 3D have all been written from the same source, by people who have no understanding. A 3D Blu-ray player makes sense – it needs to be able to read layers 3 and 4 on the disk. But what part does the TV play? I can only guess that it’s about synchronising the 3D glasses to the TV images… in which case a 3D Blur-ray player should be able to do this!

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Good idea, thank you, Guy.

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Thank you, MM.

Moving the TV is something that doesn’t really bother me. However I’ve noticed that B&O dealerships tend to be located where you can’t legally park nearby… and carrying the 7-40 a long way might not be a good idea!

Well, I currently have the Dreambox 8000 controlled by my Avant DVD, and it works great. I just assumed that if it was supported on the old Avant STBC, it would be supported on the PUC. I guess the dealer can check that easily, though.

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Adam, sorry that I hijacked your thread – I thought I was being daft, too.

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Terrific! Thank you.

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Thank you, guys. It’s great to get things resolved so quickly. Just a couple of oddities noted.

1. In the new BV7 area: Page 7 of the Instructions area lists:

Blu-ray Guide MKV – EN -BeoVision 7-40 MKV Blu-ray Guide

However the link is to a BV7 Mk3 service manual, instead of the correct document.

2. The Service manual area includes manuals for Mk1 to Mk4, but nothing for Mk5 and Mk6. Are those manuals unavailable?

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

Thank you. I had missed that thread, so I was unsure whether the new Products page was intended to access the manuals.

However this is why when I update a website, I keep the old structure there in parallel with the new one, until I’m sure that the new one is complete. It would be sensible to have an “old site” link to enable us to reach the old document store.

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

I’m struggling here, too. I need the manuals for a Beovision 7-40, but the product page for Beovision only contains two Avant entries in the the main scrollable part of the page, and links to three Beograms and a Beolab along the bottom. Any ideas where I can find the 7-40 Mk5 manuals?

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

[deaddruid]

The product pages on the new website appear to be for “products for sale”, rather than “product information”. Can someone tell me where I can find the old product pages? Today I had to go to the Internet Archive to find information about the Beovision 7-40, as I couldn’t find it on the new website.

Mark

Location: UK

Favourite Product: Avant 32 DVD

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