I think the best you can do is buy replacement remotes, either the 5000 or the 7000, used on ebay or some other source.

The 7-4 is a dedicated center mono speaker and the 7-1/2/6 are stereo speakers that you can use in a mono setup for the center OR as a stereo speaker.

Graham, I did realize that , and obviously at the point of buying the phono stage you could just buy another deck for the same price!

By the way if you live in the UK Soundsheavenly.com can make you a kit.

Although I am no expert, I find it hard to believe that there is not a phono preamp that one can buy that will not provide acceptable results. Might have to spring for a decent one costing a few hundred, but these phono stages go up to the thousands of dollars, even 10s of thousands so I'm sure there is one out there.

As I stated above you can setup the Samsung to act as a "monitor" under the PC setting where the image processing is turned off. Personally, I would rather have an LED based LCD any day over those thick power hungry Plasmas.

Well don't get worried just yet because I didn't have it set up right! Excuse my ignorance because this is a new unit for me (purchased about 1.5 months ago) so I haven't even begun to play with it much. Can you tell me what kind of product to get (maybe an amazon link to one that would work) and will pick one up? I figured maybe somehow

I hooked up a camcorder to V.tape and got it to work, had a black bar on the side but I'm sure that can be corrected. The screen was not jumpy or anything like that. I don't have any hi-def sources to try that would use the Y/B/R connection on top. The curtains worked and everything. I tried the code entered in the service menu under the monitor

beojeff, I haven't played around with the Beo4 remote too much but there are lots of threads on the Zektor switch and using the Beo4 as a universal remote, etc. For me, I just don't have the time to play around that much and have been content to have a couple of remotes for the TV and the BS1 separate. Basically now I just use the Beo4 to switch

I will see if I can get some time to plug in a Y/B/R source to the BS1 and play around with this.