What are you drinking!!!!

My dealer is asking £370 but down the road they are asking £395 There is no set price, they can charge what they like.

Suggest you contact Tim Jarman at www.beocentral.com and I'm sure he will fix it for you.

Reprogramming is not possible I'm afraid. The only way is to change the pcb.

Agree 100% with David. I have seen many many Beo4's and have never seen a screen with any burn in. The batteries will last so long you will forget when you last changed them!

The BC8500 has a built in phono preamp and phono socket.

The Beonic Man: Thanks for some really helpful replies. A very good point about the 50Hz consideration Bingo, thanks for that. Just like you Nobby I too would rarely make use of the masterlink functionality although I do have that option in my current setup should I need it. I looked at the BeoCenter 1 which is interesting in terms of playing DVDs but

Bingo: Be aware that the AV9000 is 50 HZ TV. If you now also have 50 HZ then you are used to it, but if you now watch a 100HZ or at least aflickering-free television, maybe it is difficult to go back to 50 HZ. I beg to disagree! (polite way of saying "that's rubbish"). I have MX6000, MS6000, MX7000, AV9000, Avant 32DVD, BV6-22 and several

Connect the beolink converter between the AUX on the 2300 and ML on the 3500. Worked a treat on the one I tried. Both powerlinks on the 2300 are empty and can be used for other speakers.

If you only paid £500 Nigel then there had to be something wrong with them!!! I will take all the 8000's you can get me at that price and I won't want to see or hear them.