Well, that article certainly brought several Beoworld members to the B&O BeoLounge who would otherwise not have visited. It's a nice article and it does seem that after a difficult introduction for B&O, there is a greater acceptance of the Beosound 5 in the marketplace. For me, from day one I could see that the design and general style were

David, A warm welcome to Beoworld and your first post. The Beo5 does not have intelligents to do functions like searching as I think you have in mind and you cannot enter text as such You could program it to go from artist to artist with one click or album to album with a click. You could even get very clever and program the volume control when controlling

Everyones comments about this situation are correct, you cannot switch on all linked rooms from one room by user action. However you may be asking yourself, technically why this is the case, the answer is that B&O's Masterlink protocol uses what they call a " Lock Manager Protocol " which uses a " KEY " which any product

The current list of STB's supported for the AVANT DVD can be found in the GROUP section of this forum HERE B&O have made a recent surprise updated chip(s) for the STB-C

The Beovision 1 was not made for the North American market and as far as I am aware was never formally marketed there either. There was six versions of the Beovision 1 as follows:- First generation BV1 with type numbers 860X BV1-L with type numbers 866X BV1-LS with type numbers 865X BV1 Update 1 with type numbers 861X BV1 Update 2 with type numbers

Lars, The short answer to your questions is "Yes" The long answer can be found HERE

The Beovision 3 will have been previously linked to a audio master via masterlink and the audio days will be when using the CD or Radio etc through the TV

Geir, A very Warm welcome to Beoworld and your first posting. You may download the two logos you are looking for HERE I have re-sized them to 100 x 44 pixels which is the standard icon size on the Beo5

I understand that the latest software version for the Beosound Ouverture was 2.1

As far as I am aware the "Functions" have only been used with Lintronics to date and are intended for 3rd party control. The Lintronic relay card is a good example and teh following are the "Control" and "Function" commands CONTROL COMMANDS Control 0 = All relays Control 1 = Relay 1 Control 2 = Relay 2 Control 3 = Relay