Keith, Many thanks for your welcome and reply. Obviously I am please to see someone believes my combination works. As you detected I am/was having serious doubts about the wisdom of all this. I am quite happy the IR is correctly placed. Over the last three weeks all operations have both worked and failed. Time of day, usage lapse time, product switching

Hi Everybody We have recently taken delivery of a new 7/40 blue ray television together with two beo5 remote controls to add onto our existing avant & beovision 3 masterlink system. To date our experience of the consistency of these remote controls (beo4 & new beo5) and this new device has left us feeling somewhat disappointed with our purchase