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Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Dave — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:28:10 GMT

how funny! :D i stuff it in my lap whilst pressing the buttons... why couldn't they they have made it exit & list instead... oh well ;)

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

burantek — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:35:35 GMT

ah, the old beo4 scrum...

i usually stuff it into a pillow too.

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

kallasr — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:25:46 GMT

You just need to cover the sender ... e.g. using a pillow and "pushing" the beo 4 into it.

Ralf

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Jandyt — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:58:47 GMT

I stand at the bottom of my stairs to add things, out of range of any sensors.

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

ajames — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:53:00 GMT

I wondered that too about the Avant parking and thought it was a fault - makes perfect sense to me now.

I wonder how many other things there are. It's always a nuisance when you want to add something to a Beo4 even temporarily and everything switches off.

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Jandyt — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:26:22 GMT

You know, B&O often do 'things' that we don't realise until later. Being a Beoworlder brings these hidden things out.
For exanple, I thought it was a fault that, when doing a hard switch off in a link room (long press of standby button), my Avant wouldn't park up for the night in the main room.
Only by being a Beoworld member did I find out that it is actually a safety device, your baby might have it's head trapped in the Avant while you're in the kitchen!

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Graham1982 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:07:52 GMT

Thanks, that would make sense. Should stop deriding B&Os efforts - they obviously thought about the reasons for doing it and wasn't over engineering!

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Peter — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:27:33 GMT

The SCART for the VHS is not really supposed to be removed - hence, as Andy says, the clip! It has to be removable however so that the VCR can be serviced.

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Jandyt — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:08:45 GMT

I think the clip thing is so it won't come out easily. Handy in a TV that moves back and fore every time you switch it on/off.

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Graham1982 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:01:06 GMT

Success - why didn't I think of that before?

Also, why oh why is there some kind of clip that overhangs the Avant socket so that it is a nightmare to get the scart in - GOD!

As much as I love B&O I have never understood the need for programing of scarts, pulling things out and connecting them in the adjacent socket. I know there is probably a reason but hardly intuitive is it!

Thanks everyone for your help. I can now watch X-Files on a proper TV!

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Graham1982 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:57:10 GMT

Hi:

Its an Avant so the source end is in the case right?

I will give it a go now

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Jandyt — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:52:31 GMT

Graham, mine just says V Tape, without the 1. If you are getting sound, you must be on the right source, have you shoved the scart lead in firmly, both on the VCR end and the TV end?

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Graham1982 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:21:30 GMT

Oh, if it helps, it says "v.tape 1" on the display.

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Graham1982 — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:19:51 GMT

Hi Peter:

Right, done that now there is sound but no picture. It does not sound like the picture is going to be bad or at fault as the sound is very crisp. Is this a programing issue now?

Thanks

Graham

PS I didn't know but now I do I guess!

Re: Can someone please tell me how to use a '96 Avant VHS with Beo4?

Peter — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:08:06 GMT

You know the user manual is on the official site? Not much use, but it should be there.

How many SCART sockets have you? If 3, the VCR captive lead should be in the one on the right , looking at the back of the set.