[quote user="tournedos"] B&O is different in that they are worth repairing, and you can actually get spare parts for them... [/quote] And now if ever the TV breaks in the future (providing the remote is still working), I can get some money back for it on eBay!

Wow thank you both of you. Two answers, almost simultaneously posted with the same advice. You must both know your stuff! The previous owner of the TV was a smoker (it took months for the TV and remote to stop smelling) which along with grease from fingers etc will probably explain the mess. I'll leave it be for now, and if I ever need to open up

Almost spoke to soon. Put the screws back in, and it started again. As I untightened them, it stopped. Took it all apart again, and this time lifted the opaque plastic cover from the green PCB (I hadn't even noticed this was a cover last time) and there was something white on the "channel down" button. I wiped this off, and put it all

[quote user="tournedos"] It's obvious that the button is now somehow electrically stuck. Does the button itself look to be at the same height than the others, or does it feel any different (don't try to pry it up though, the rubber breaks easily)? Has anything been spilled on the remote sometime in the past, or have the batteries leaked

I have a Beolink1000 remote, which I believe to be a Mk3 (according to diagram posted here - it has the light button, and the top section on the back of the remote is one large section rather than split into 2). The control, controls a Beovision LE 6000 TV Something changed recently, and now whenver there are batteries in the beolink, and the TV is