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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>General Forum</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/13.aspx</link><description>The main Meeting Place for BeoWorld members, and the place for General Questions, Answers and things to say! 
If you have any questions about anything Bang &amp;amp; Olufsen related - please ask. If you have anything to say - please tell!</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)</generator><item><title>Re: Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104328.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:18:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:104328</guid><dc:creator>Stan</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104328.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=104328</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;beocool:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Stan:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;And I&amp;#39;m going to guess that &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;00 - 2008&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since that is what my new Beo4 has.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/emoticons/35.gif" alt="Hmm" /&gt; I thought 21 would be more likely... On the sticker are two numbers. The lower one is the serial number and I suspect the other one is the product number. Hope this helps...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No, since neither number matched your list, I double-checked against an older Beo4 to verify which number was which... my top number is 8052757, the lower number is 0037xxxx (xxxx are actual numbers, but I don&amp;#39;t like broadcasting my serial number... not that I can think of anyway that it would matter :)).&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;I would agree that this is odd.&amp;nbsp; Maybe 21 was already used by some other product?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Stan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104110.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:18:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:104110</guid><dc:creator>gorissek</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104110.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=104110</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;background-color:#ffffff;padding:8px;"&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Jandyt:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Is this any help to you, Luka?&lt;br /&gt;Left click on it to see it bigger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font face="times new roman,times" size="3"&gt;Andy T.&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yes, something like that. The one I&amp;nbsp;remember&amp;nbsp;had the whole Beo4s on it, not just the top buttons, on a white background, but it doesn&amp;#39;t really matter. Thanks Andy. We could put it on the Beo4 product page and write something like MKI, MKII,... underneath.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104096.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:06:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:104096</guid><dc:creator>beocool</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104096.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=104096</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Stan:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;beocool:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;p&gt;The serial number can be found on the sticker in the Beo 4&amp;#39;s battery compartment. You can tell it&amp;#39;s age by the first two numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;11 - 1996 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;12 - 1997 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;13 - 1998/1999 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;14 - 2000 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;15 - 2001 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;16 - 2002 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;17 - 2003/2004 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;18 - 2005 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;19 - 2006 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;20 - 2007&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;And I&amp;#39;m going to guess that &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;00 - 2008&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since that is what my new Beo4 has.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/emoticons/35.gif" alt="Hmm" /&gt; I thought 21 would be more likely... On the sticker are two numbers. The lower one is the serial number and I suspect the other one is the product number. Hope this helps...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104078.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:08:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:104078</guid><dc:creator>Jandyt</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104078.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=104078</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Is this any help to you, Luka?&lt;br /&gt;Left click on it to see it bigger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font face="times new roman,times" size="3"&gt;Andy T.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104077.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:05:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:104077</guid><dc:creator>Stan</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104077.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=104077</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://forum.beoworld.org/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;beocool:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;p&gt;The serial number can be found on the sticker in the Beo 4&amp;#39;s battery compartment. You can tell it&amp;#39;s age by the first two numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;11 - 1996 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;12 - 1997 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;13 - 1998/1999 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;14 - 2000 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;15 - 2001 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;16 - 2002 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;17 - 2003/2004 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;18 - 2005 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;19 - 2006 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;20 - 2007&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/BLOCKQUOTE&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;And I&amp;#39;m going to guess that &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;00 - 2008&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since that is what my new Beo4 has.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Stan&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104075.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:23:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:104075</guid><dc:creator>gorissek</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104075.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=104075</wfw:commentRss><description>I remember there was a great photo of all three Beo4 versions next to each other on the old site. It would be great if you could put it on again.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104019.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:51:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:104019</guid><dc:creator>beocool</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104019.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=104019</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;The serial number can be found on the sticker in the Beo 4&amp;#39;s battery compartment. You can tell it&amp;#39;s age by the first two numbers:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;11 - 1996 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;12 - 1997 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;13 - 1998/1999 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;14 - 2000 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;15 - 2001 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;16 - 2002 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;17 - 2003/2004 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;18 - 2005 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;19 - 2006 &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;20 - 2007&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104006.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:18:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:104006</guid><dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104006.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=104006</wfw:commentRss><description>May be &lt;a href="http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=694"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; can help!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104005.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:17:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:104005</guid><dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/104005.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=104005</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;What buttons are in the top sector? The one I have in front of me (an oldish one!) has TV,Light.Radio, then Sat, DVD, CD and finally V.Tape, Record, A.Tape.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What do yours have?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Beo4 serial number?</title><link>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/103999.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:01:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">41a2a90c-3a1e-4bd3-b144-3883695a7f38:103999</guid><dc:creator>iphone</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/thread/103999.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>https://archivedforum.beoworld.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=103999</wfw:commentRss><description>How do I tell the age of my Beo4 remote? We lost the receipt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>