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Hi
I am finally the owner of a mint Beo4. Question....does the display never go off? So if I select cd...will it stay on showing cd forever if I never touch it again?
Thanks
Ben
Yes, it is!
Brengen & Ophalen
Sorry...just to clarify...is that yes it stays on or yes it is supposed to go off? lol!!
Yes it stays on!
Thanks for the help!! Quite a wierd idea that it stays on all the time :)
BenSA:Thanks for the help!! Quite a wierd idea that it stays on all the time :)
If all your equipment is on standby and you press GO on the Beo4, it will turn on the most recently used source = the one that is displayed on the Beo4. If the display went blank after use, this feature wouldn't be quite as handy.
- Dennis
That is very useful and clever!! Thank you for the tip and help everyone
BenSA: Sorry...just to clarify...is that yes it stays on or yes it is supposed to go off? lol!!
Yes my dear friend, the display is always on and will never gett off unless the batterie is out of power!
Leslie: BenSA: Sorry...just to clarify...is that yes it stays on or yes it is supposed to go off? lol!! Yes my dear friend, the display is always on and will never gett off unless the batterie is out of power!
I suspect that the display technology draws little or no power .... I think it relies on flipping the "bits" to create a pattern that reflects the letters under light.
After all it does not glow in the dark ....................................... does it ?
BeoNut since '75
elephant: I suspect that the display technology draws little or no power .... I think it relies on flipping the "bits" to create a pattern that reflects the letters under light. After all it does not glow in the dark ....................................... does it ?
It's a regular LCD display, based on light polarization that can be changed by an electric field. It doesn't emit any light by itself and there's no backlight either. In theory, they could be driven statically (only requiring power when a pixel changes state) but in practice that would damage the display in the long run. Therefore the controller electronics need to work all the time and drive every "on" pixel with AC voltage - however, this needs very little energy, and the Beo4 (as most other B&O remote controllers) seem to be extremely well designed regarding this. Even if a remote doesn't have a display, the microprocessor in it still needs to wake up & run regularly to scan the keyboard, so a simple display doesn't add much to the power consumption. All of this is dwarfed by the power needed to actually send something via IR.
I have yet to replace a set of batteries in any of my Beo4s!
--mika