[quote user="Kokomo"] I retired early from the UK to Spain and am now priced out of B&O. Not because I'm poor (although I have far less disposable income than I used to have), but because I have been left behind as the brand has moved onwards and upwards out of my reach. That leaves me somewhat saddened. Not out of self-pity, just

I enjoy this forum and many of the contributors including Trip and many in this thread. Some entertaining contributors seem to have left the forum or have drastically reduced their input.......... Elephant is not the only contributor who has spotted that the isolation of the Wednesday non-B&O thread on a different server has had the apparent effect

Merry Christmas to all Beoworlders from the former viking territory of Vestri Kirkjubyr. Graham

[quote user="Kokomo"] I'm not trying to start or re-ignite a "B&O are finished/doomed" thread, but I have been reading the below concerning a meeting in Beijing involving LG and Chinese manufacturers. http://tinyurl.com/35gn978 Far East companies seem to be developing TV technologies at such frightening speed that companies

Juxst to add to jldmelb, the Beotalk must be connected to the primary phone socket and not to a secondary socket. You have to use the B&O splitter (others will not be wired correctly internally.) Check for loose connections and use elastic bands over the splitter connections if anything seems loose. Graham

Steve, I've taken advantage of the Lintronic website in the past to compare coding on different STBs. It might be a way to prove that the Foxsat is completely different from what you might think are similar models (or if you are very lucky, to find another STB in your current PUC list that shares some command codes.) Graham

How do they treat Mexican hats in the post? Graham

[quote user="tournedos"] There's a more low-tech solution for this that might actually work better for some setups - a regular master-slave extension cord. When the device connected to the master socket pulls enough (an adjustable amount) current, the cord switches the rest of the sockets on. [/quote] Good idea Mika, but (if my theory

Further to my last post, I suspect that a lot of STBs go into standby when they are first powered-up, and then need to respond to a remote control signal. With the B&O IR blaster, the signal simultaneously hits the Ecotek IR sensor and the STB itself. The Ecotek switches on the power, but the STB then goes into standby and will not respond to a

The Ecotek Standby Saver (originally featured in the UK on Dragons Den) is a clever device for avoiding having to leave all your TV linked STBs etc in standby so probably will save quite a bit of power (£43 per annum per unit claimed by the manufacturer. Units retail between £15 and £22.) It's a 6 socket extension lead/ adapter