I found a very interesting thing about the North American Beovision-7. It accepts and displays properly PAL signals from the analogue video inputs! To do the test, I set the video output format of my Sony digital camera to PAL and connected it to the side video input connector of my TV. The image was properly displayed in color. I checked  the "input signal" menu (unfortunately only accessible from the service menu) and the resolution displayed was 720 X 576 pixels (this is the internal digitizer of the TV as the input is analogue) and the frequency was 50 Hz. That means that the PAL signal was properly recognized. A check with a NTSC only TV and DVD recorder produced a rolling black and white picture. Obviously, this is not the best way to look at photos taken by a digital camera as the resolution is severely reduced, but this is an handy way to produce a PAL video signal here in Canada.

Previously, B&O TVs sold in North America were strictly NTSC. My US MX-5000 cannot display a PAL signal properly and I think this is also the case for the US Avant and Beosystem 1.

Probably the standalone Beosystem-3 as well as the Beovisions 4 (current) and 9 should also be able to display PAL signals. That means that the North American and European versions of the Beosystem 3 share the same video processing circuitry.

Best regards,

Jean

Jean,

There has been a general move over the years to get to one version of a Beovision product including items such as mains power.

In Europe where most countries use PAL except places like France with Secam, there is different type of PAL mostly linked to the sound carrier frequency such as PAL I in the UK and PAL B/G in Belgium, yet most recently produced Beovisions are software switchable for the correct country, yet the hardware was/is mostly the same, except for connector types on the back panel.

With the Beovision 7 and others, B&O have really tried to keep the design and manufacturing costs down by keeping the number of variations of a product to a minimum.

As you will see from the major elements of the Beovision 7 spec below, most major countries are covered:-

• Tuning USA/Korea: Cable TV 1-125, Off Air TV 2-69
• Japan: Channel 1-62 and Channel C13-C38
• EU/Other: 45 - 860MHz: VHF, S-band, Hyper-band, UHF 99 programmes, autotune, programme move and automatic naming
• Stereo decoders EU/other: A2+ Nicam Stereo
• US: BTSC Stereo, SAP
• Japan: EIA-J Stereo
• Korea: A2 Stereo
• Taiwan: BTSC Stereo, SAP
• Menu languages English, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, German, French, Italian
• DVD: Build in with playback the following DVD-Video, Video CD, CD-DA, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD -/+, DVD -/+ RW, CD-MP3, JPEG, DivX, Multistandard PAL/NTSC
• DVD region 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6