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This is the second Archived Forum which was active between 1st March 2012 and 23rd February 2022
Since I'm in quarantine (in my own house!) due to a Covid exposure, I thought I would get Beolink video working so my GF and I can watch the same show at the same time, but in different rooms. My dealer observed I'm probably the only person in the US who actually tried to make Beolink video coax distribution work! I have a Masterlink system with a BV7-40 MKIII in Option 1 in the main room, and a Beosystem 3 in Option 6 in the link room. I am trying to play a DVD on the BV7 and watch it on the BS3. I ran a coax cable from the Link output to the analog input on the BS3. The BV7 is in Modulation AUTO, and I've set the channel to 80, and also tried 69.
While the video and audio play on the BS3, it cycles about once a second between 4:3 and 16:9, playing audio briefly while the image is up. Since the audio is off between flashes of the different format, so I know it isn't an issue with the projector. Interestingly, if I disconnect the coax to the BS3, it will continue to cycle with a snowy picture between 4:3 and 16:9, so it may have nothing to do with the BV7 source signal. I've fiddled with the FORMAT command on the BS3, and it just causes the display at the top of the screen to go between FORMAT 1 and FORMAT 3. I set the FORMAT TO 4:3 on the BV7. I also went into the service menu and changed the M, B/G, I options on the Modulator System setting. All to no avail. Also, I can not seem to tune in to channel 80 or 69 on the TV as a workaround. Note that I have not tried resetting the BS3 to defaults, as that would be a pain to reconfigure everything.
Any ideas, Beoworlders? Is there a mysterious setting that I'm missing? Or is there something amiss in the BS3?
-Gregg