Merry Christmas all,

I recently picked up a junction box from my local dealer. He informed me that they could now come out and re-program the BT vision box/remote in order for the Beo4 to control all functions. I did ask this forum a while back to see if this was possible (as it is with Sky) Keith told me back then that it was not a possibility - does anyone know if this has now changed with a new BT vision box or some kind of revised sofware since my dealer seems to think so..?

Cheers

Bebs 

 

I think it's a software upgrade for the TV - I'm waiting for confirnation though

My local dealer just rang to confirm that the software upgrade is NOT available as yet for 'old' BV5s..  it seems its for new TVs only..

Support for BT Vision was made available for PUC's which means flash updateable from a PC in September 2008

However, BT Vision is NOT available in any of the STB chips.

Last year B&O decided to group STB IC's by region due to the limited space in the software IC, the set-top boxes have been split into 5 ICs as below:-

North Europe, version 4.00 (part number 8344784)
West Europe, version 4.01 (part number 8344785)
Central Europe, version 4.06 (part number 8344786)
South Europe, version 4.03 (part number 8344787)
Asia, version 4.04 (part number 8344788)

This was also seen as the final chip update, in other words they were not expecting to update them again because BeoVisions which have shipped for some years now have PUC's which are soft updateable.

So, to be clear a STB (Set Top Box) Controller and a PUC (Peripheral Unit Controller) do exactly the same function for the user, however the STB controller can only be updated by chnaging a chip, but the PUC can be updated using a PC.

Unfortunately your Beovision 5 has a STB controller, so you do not have support for BT Vision and I would be surprised if the chipset is updated again.

Thanks Keith, as usual you know what you are talking about - unlike my local dealer clearly!  and he is even the actual owner of the shop (Canary Warf)  Unbelievable.. or perhaps I haven't spent enough there to warrant decent advice - bl00dy amateur!