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Hi I have a Beocenter 2, what is the best method to make the DVD picture clearer and Crisp?
Any better up conversion receiver or add ups?
babagentle: Hi I have a Beocenter 2, what is the best method to make the DVD picture clearer and Crisp?
To be honest, you'd be better buying a Blu-ray player, an Apple TV (stream HD movies) or a PS3. The BC2 can only play SD DVDs and, whilst that's fine on a BV7-32, BV10-32 or similar, move up to a bigger screen and you see a lot of pixelation. Not much you can do about this. You can't simply take an SD DVD, a SD DVD player (BC2) and turn it in to HD-level quality.
You could always rip out the DVD drive and install a blu ray player. I heard its quite an easy job. Just a few rolls of Sellotape , a hammer and half a pint of vodka and voila !
Im pretty sure that's how all bno gear is designed.
Flappo: You could always rip out the DVD drive and install a blu ray player. I heard its quite an easy job. Just a few rolls of Sellotape , a hammer and half a pint of vodka and voila ! Im pretty sure that's how all bno gear is designed.
Maybe you just try to be funny, but a serious question from a forum member deserves a serious answer. Your quest on this forum to throw garbage at B&O is embarrassing.
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Hiort: Maybe you just try to be funny, but a serious question from a forum member deserves a serious answer. Your quest on this forum to throw garbage at B&O is embarrassing.
You have to wonder how these guys find the time to bother! It's like me going on a B&W forum all day and simply wasting their time. I'd rather be earning money so I can buy better kit, rather than compromising on a Samsung TV
I make plenty f money , honey. I just don't waste it on rubbish like poseur watches, tarted up Samsung panels in shiny plastic etc.
Please don't take offence at that comment , it's only the Internet after all.
Flappo: I make plenty f money , honey. I just don't waste it on rubbish like poseur watches, tarted up Samsung panels in shiny plastic etc. Please don't take offence at that comment , it's only the Internet after all.
Of course. Each to their own.
What Moxxey said is quite true. I haven't used my BC2 in years. It just sits on its stand and looks pretty. The image from it just can't compare with the upscaling that my recent Samsung blu-ray player can do on DVD movies. It's sad, really, because the BC2 is such a beautiful player and the opening mechanism is pure B&O magic. It's unfortunate that the BC2 never even came equipped with component connections and certainly not HDMI connections, which were becoming the standard at the time and essential for upscaling.
Some hope for you might be in having the software updated. I remember that several years ago I had the software updated on the BC2 and found a very big improvement in the quality of the video. I can't remember what the old software version was that I was using. It's worth checking with a B&O technician to see which version you have and if an update might help. Even with the software update, the video still isn't as good as that from a recent blu-ray player. Still, it might improve from what you have now.