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Hi All,
I'm really pleased with the second-hand BeoVision 7-32 Mk III I recently purchased and it's working well Masterlinked to my Besound3000 and BeoPort (fed by DacMagic and Mac-Mini). It sounds great feeding some BL8000s at the front and BL6000s at the rear
However, I'm curious about the previous use of the 7-32 but can't find on the menu how to display the statistics page that I believe exists to track hours of TV and DVD use. Some help from the Forum would be much appreciated thanks! How do I find the usage stats page?
Best regards,
Rob
You should press: TV - MENU - 0 0 GO and then you check monitor information
Dimitris-
Thanks Dimitris; always wandered if there is a way to actually RESET those figures.
Hi Mindphaser,
Good question, I'd like to know this too!
My secondhand 7-32 has some very odd figures which makes me thing they might have got corrupted in some way. For instance 14,800 boots since new. Given the TV (Mk III) can't be older than 7 years that means the TV was power cycled 5 times a day! I find this hard to believe.
Dimitris if you can advise if we can reset the logs that would be much appreciated.
Best,
There is a way to reset to default settings through this menu. Also you can reset the errors on the menu (i think it is twice the left arrow and then RED). But i believe as customers we cannot reset the counters. Maybe a dealer can. But again that is the purpose of the counter. Imagine buying a second-hand TV set which is like new but instead it had many hours on the counter before reset...not nice. :-)
The boot counter giving crazy readings is down to a software fault, which causes it to go into a crazy loop and register boot counts like the altimeter on a plane falling out of the sky! Ignore it - it has no effect on the TV and usually sorts itself out. Of course, the boot counter cannot be reset - but don't be scared.
A lot is made of service counter readings. Nobody ever bothered with them before it was made an issue - and nobody was the worse for it. Only in the late 1980's, when Plasma screens had a very short and finite lifespan did it really matter. By the introduction of the BeoVision 5, technology had moved on so much it was predicted they would last a dizzyingly high 60,000 hours. I've had them in stock with 100,000+ hours on, and the image quality and colours are still incredible. These days, technology has moved on even further - so sweating over a TV which has done 5,000 hours or one that's done 8,000 hours is a pointless exercise IMHO.
Finally, no - there are no ways to reset the service counters. They are essential for B&O to investigate warranty claims and monitor faults, so they'd never have a tool or the option to do this i'd guess.
Clearing the fault codes is as easy as pressing GO when you're in the Monitor Information menu. Next time you go into the menu, you'll see they have disappeared. The fault codes are actually a waste of time on the whole as even the B&O engineers in Denmark have no idea what most of them mean..
Lee