scott451:
i am curious to know how it functions from a user point of view. if i set things up correctly i should get my tv channels and bluray player output (as an example) running down the same cable.
For me (I have some old, non-B&Os CRTs as my link room TVs) the behaviour is as follows:
-- the TVs are tuned into Australia's 5 standard analogue TV signals that I believe the RF Amplifier is re-broadcasting from my roof aerial, I switch between these using the TVs non-B&O remote and the audio comes from the TVs
-- the CRT TVs are also tuned to a sixth channel which is the link frequency of the mb BV8-32
Now assume I have switched on a CRT TV to the link frequency
-- if I use my Beo4 in the link rooms and I press [TV] I get the standard analogue channel re-broadcast from the BV8-32, and my Beo4 up [ ^ ] & down [ v ] buttons change the analogue channels that the BV8 is transmitting on the link frequency ... my audio is coming from the CRT's channels AND from the link room's BeoLabs
-- if I use my Beo4 in the link rooms and I press [DTV] I get the standard Australian FreeView digital channel re-broadcast from the BV8-32, and my Beo4 up [ ^ ] & down [ v ] buttons change the digital channels inside the BV8 and a new show appears on the CRT's link frequency channel ... my audio is coming from the CRT's channels AND from the link room's BeoLabs ... the Beo4's volume control only changes the BeoLabs and not the CRT's speaker
-- if I use my Beo4 in the link rooms and I press the soft button [V-AUX] I get whatever my Foxtel box is tuned to re-broadcast from the BV8-32, and my Beo4 up [ ^ ] & down [ v ] buttons change the Foxtel's channels, and I can interact with its menus (via [MENU] etc) ... my audio is coming from the CRT's channels AND from the link room's BeoLabs
-- if I use my Beo4 in the link rooms and I press [DVD] I get the DVD re-broadcast from the BV8-32, and my Beo4 buttons control the DVD player ... my audio is coming from the CRT's channels AND from the link room's BeoLabs
I really set this all up as an experiment to see how it all works and to enable my sons to use the CRTs for their late night watching or for watching when they were working in their rooms, but for my wife and I 99.99% of our TV watching was with the BV8-32 ... now that we have an iPad in the house we use that as a small portable TV, but there we are leveraging the MacMini and its Elgato eyeTV which is connected/tuned into one of the RF Amplifiers 4 output cables
First B&O (1976) was a Beogram 1500 ... latest (2011) change has been to couple the BL11 with the BL6Ks *sounds superb*