Beoworld Fun

I think I was about 13 or so when I saw it, and yeah, she haunted my adolescent dreams!

There were several things about it though that were ahead of its time though. The aliens being in oxygenated liquid to increase their G tolerance for one. The harvesting of human organs for transplants for another. And they were fairly dark at times, the one where an alien sniper shot out the window of the moon station causing people to be spaced. I did love the purple hair.

Interestingly enough, the TV show The Expanse (originally a SyFy channels show) had a Belter (a person born and raised in microgravity in the asteroid belt) being tortured by being subjected to full 1 G Earth gravity, finally the UN powers that be stopped it and they kept him in a tank full of water with a breathing mask. The movie Event Horizon had the crew get into liquid filled capsules before a high G boost. So, UFO was ahead of its time.

loved the car phones and the moonbase silver miniskirts

Re Syfy shows: I watched The German show “Raumpatrouille”

Re fun: I am missing the Wedthread, which was partly drowned in too much alcohol...

Peter the Biker:

Re Syfy shows: I watched The German show “Raumpatrouille”

Re fun: I am missing the Wedthread, which was partly drowned in too much alcohol...

I think that the Wedthred was successful when there was more than a critical mass of participants ( with the necessary sense of humour!) The numbers dropped.... and for me, once jandyt (Andy) started taking more interest in checking his dustbin for dog poop bags dropped by passing dog walkers than posting on the Wedthred, the writing was on the wall.

Graham

Ahhh,  the Wedthred - some of the funniest conversations I've had happened on Wednesdays! I remember with fondness the pipe organ constructed entirely from Giraffes complete with a dancing giant Halibut!

Ah yes Wednesday, everyone's favourite forum post

 

Yeah I need to be a bit more onto it, I blame moving between hemispheres and the ongoing unpacking and plugging back in of B&O kit. All done now though so hey

Puncher:

You've no idea how much this saddens me if it's in anyway a true reflection upon where we are heading as a race!

To quote the Gadfather: "Slowly we inch toward the abyss of infinite darkness." Just realized this is my first post in almost 15 months.

Peter the Biker:

Re Syfy shows: I watched The German show “Raumpatrouille”

 

Re fun: I am missing the Wedthread, which was partly drowned in too much alcohol...

I've never seen it sadly. I'll have to look and see if I can find it under the Space Patrol title over here.

I did get into a much later show which was a joint German/Canadian production, "Lexx." Low budget but wildly creative and completely bent.

beocool:

Just realized this is my first post in almost 15 months.

Beek! Hope all is well

Young Evan! - how the devil are you!??

(and Beek of course)!

Puncher:

Young Evan! - how the devil are you!??

(and Beek of course)!

Doing great! I'm a living, breathing (and maybe even contributing) member of society these days haha!

Hope all is well, Punch

I tend to agree - the fun went as the products became so similar to others on the market. And not working as well. In my case, I am also now working harder than ever and simply don't have the time that I did. When we first set up, I felt I knew all the products and could explain how they worked and gave a reasonably helpful opinion. I am now miles behind and my interest in the latest TVs can be seen in the fact that my 3 main TVs are a CRT Avant, a BV3 and a BV5!!

Still fantastic and great sound by the way!!

Evan:

Puncher:

Young Evan! - how the devil are you!??

(and Beek of course)!

Doing great! I'm a living, breathing (and maybe even contributing) member of society these days haha!

Hope all is well, Punch

Chipper as always, thanks. Nice to see you're no longer a drain on resources!

I still browse around here once in a while !

I don't have much to ask or comment about lately. Just like so many others Life, work, family and other obligations have taken over most of my time. I also am not up to date with all the newer gear, so I can't really help anyone out with that. Only thing I am in the market for currently is a good deal on a US beosystem 3. 

I also moved a couple of years ago and most of my gear is still boxed .... All we use right now is the old Ouverture with BL2500 speakers. Which is certainly not the worst but not ideal either. I have been liquidating some of my gear as it no longer works in our space. But I'll be asking a few questions and tips on how to set my other stuff back up over the next few months.

I have a beolab 7.1 which seems dead so that'll be the first thing to get checked out, after that it'll be my BL8000's which are dire need of a tune up.  Over the summer I'll be looking to find some threads with tips on how to get the best out of them again. 

Glad to see many familiar names again !

 

cooldude:

Only thing I am in the market for currently is a good deal on a US beosystem 3.

I was able to buy two used BeoSystem 3 units from by dealer in Boston for less than $1k each, with a warranty. They work perfectly. It never hurts to ask. Maybe your nearest dealer has some too.

Not happening here in Canada, I’m afraid 😟 , hence trying to source in the US.

Evan:

Doing great! I'm a living, breathing (and maybe even contributing) member of society these days haha!

Just translating so Young Evan knows what he is writing

Es geht mir gut, Ich lebe, Ich atme (ab und zu zahle Ich Steuern) Ich bin Mitglied in eine Wohngemeinschaft

I think we need some aspiring, rock solid products to drool over. Geoff has done his best with the 90 and 50, although the software team may have let him down a bit. Maybe a Beolab 30 with some trickle down technology from it’s big brothers would help?

Video tech is moving too quickly, so why not make a BeoSystem 5 controller with built in voice control, streaming services, powerlink, and WiSA? Just bring your own screen, and update it every few years if you want. Just don’t price it at $20k.

Agree with everything said so far, the fun element seems to have gone - I used to check the forum regularly for updates but have been doing so less and less recently as there's not much to interest me.

PaulW's posts used to really wind me up but they were fun, mainly because he made such an idiot of himself. I suspect he is in a coffee bar somewhere with his Macbook pro and racing bike leaning against the window whilst he is reading this, that or planning a save the planet surfing trip

I guess this is the age of twitter, instagram and unsocial media

He did a mass defriending post Brexit, which I ended up being part of. I asked him to not be silly and at least keep posting, but I suspect he was too busy knitting yoghurt in Vegetable rights militia to bother with the likes of me.

Don’t know about you old timers.....but I’m still having fun 😃

craig

Craig:

Don’t know about you old timers.....but I’m still having fun 😃

craig

Ey up! How's things in Craig-land?

Craig:

Don’t know about you old timers.....but I’m still having fun 😃

craig

He's aliiiii-iiii-ve !!!!

One of the original BeoWorld crew from the olden times. How are you fella?!

Lee

It's been all down hill since PaulW and TripEnglish left. 

Still keeping an eye on proceedings here Enjoyed the bants (my daughter would roll her eyes if she saw me use that word)

9

Stonk:

Still keeping an eye on proceedings here Enjoyed the bants (my daughter would roll her eyes if she saw me use that word)

Stonk!! You've been missed .... but I've upped the contract!

Stonk:

Still keeping an eye on proceedings here Enjoyed the bants (my daughter would roll her eyes if she saw me use that word)

Pipe and slipper types slowly showing that they are still there, waiting for Valve 1, the drunken Irishman

 

Yay!

Hello everybody. I confess not posting much lately. Just not enough time - there was a time when I actually read everything on Beoworld apart from some uninteresting topics in foreign language. Currently my list of "not read" topics spans some 90 pages

I try to check the moderating queue a couple of times a day, and also scan the new topics in case there is something interesting. I do miss the silly WedThred days! I agree that these days people seem so easily offended that it is very dangerous to post anything "fun" unless you already know who you are talking to...

Ola gringo ! I will drink to that .... while enjoying my B&O

Søren Mexico:

Pipe and slipper types slowly showing that they are still there, waiting for Valve 1, the drunken Irishman

 

 

tournedos:

I do miss the silly WedThred days!

Yeah, those were the days

valve1:

Ola gringo ! I will drink to that .... while enjoying my B&O

Søren Mexico:

Pipe and slipper types slowly showing that they are still there, waiting for Valve 1, the drunken Irishman

 

 

Nice to see you active again Eddie

 

Søren Mexico:

Nice to see you active again Eddie

Thanks Soren, I have been here all the time. I think its simply a case of Im a"cable guy" ! All this streaming dropping and apps is beyond me.The best thing I have seen recently on Beoworld has been Dennis getting the 4401.

This has affected me in two ways - Beo envy and Beo lust , its been a long time since that happened.

I’ve been reading this thread with great interest. Not sure if I qualify as one of the old guard (been a member for 10 years) but I would certainly qualify as one of PaulW’s ‘pipe and slippers’ brigade!

Like many others I’ve noticed a slight shift in the tone of the site, perhaps because many of the older members no longer post. Whether that means it is less ‘fun’, I’m not so sure. That shift is arguably to a less robust, more overtly ‘sensitive’ style of commentary perhaps designed to avoid giving offence rather than stating an opinion in a clear and forthright fashion. This may reflect recent societal change, most noticeably evident on social media, where challenging the accepted orthodoxy is risky and often results in a vitriolic response. Even some of our American members seem reluctant to fulfil their rights to free speech enshrined in their constitution!

Certainly though, much of the humour does seem to have gone with the loss of some of the senior members. I do miss many of the older posters such as Andy (jandyt). Whether this loss is driven by the shift mentioned above, by the older members’ increasingly pessimistic view of the brand’s direction of travel, its perceived or actual reduction in reliability or simply by a change of personal interest is open to debate. Nice to see a few older ones contributing to the thread to show they are at least still alive.

Certainly I don’t remember such a high level of complaints about quality and reliability when I first started as a member. There may have been comments on sound quality and the inevitable comparisons with other manufacturers’ kit but this certainly didn’t reflect a concern about the inherent unreliability or a lack of engineering excellence of the products to the extent it does today.

I’ve little interest in current products as apart from the issues mentioned above, they do not, to my mind, have the design coherence nor the engineering flair of the Jensen/Lewis years with the exception of the top of the range Beolabs and even they are not without some user problems. The only currently produced piece I have is the A1 which, whatever it may be, isn’t HiFi by any reasonable criteria. On the other hand it is an ideal, family friendly travelling companion for listening to music, podcasts and the radio when away from home.

Thankfully there are still a number of members who have been around for a time and who continue to provide help and guidance on the older products I still revere and use on a daily basis. With my membership up for renewal this month I fleetingly considered changing my membership. But I feel Beoworld is still a real community worth supporting financially. Like many communities some members occasionally rub each other up the wrong way but that is normal. I would hate the forum to become so effete that it lacks any real challenge or robust debate.

Cleve

For me, and I don't type this lightly, but Beoworld got boring... Sorry.....

It became the same couple of people answering EVERY question or commenting on EVERY post in a serious tone. The good people left, the fun people got berated, and Wedthread disappeared to a different area so seemed to get forgotten

At the same time I got busier and less interested in Beoworld as it was just not entertaining anymore

 

If my flaky memory serves me right its been about 7 years since i posted, glad to see the Wednesday bunch are still alive , i remember it very fondly , convinced at one point that puncher was actually KEZ as a small boy 😂

Sorry to say i pretty much agree with johnathan. 

As for fun, well its wednesday today isnt it ?  

9

Jason :

convinced at one point that puncher was actually KEZ as a small boy 😂

I had forgotten about that !!

Its the first thing i remembered 😆😂😄

 

 

Jonathan:

It became the same couple of people answering EVERY question or commenting on EVERY post in a serious tone.

100% this.

In days this has gotten 80 replies, wouldn’t say this place is abandoned, and come on. The grass is always greener on the other side; it was better before; etc etc. we’ve all heard it before. Everywhere.

I see conversations here every day, I often go in just to watch and read, sometimes I reply or ask. I talk B&O with friends around the world and use my B&O every day too. Some of it travels with me and when I see someone with B&O I react, as so usually they. I think B&O is alive as ever. There’s not only B&O that makes cool tech anymore and people are more and more adopting it. Also people have other interests and life’s going on. I guess a lot of the older guys here have gone to other priorities like family, grand children, moving from a bigger house perhaps.

I like that it’s not always the same, us as a community flows with time and it’s fun and interesting to see the older systems and how people sometimes become members because they moved in and found all these weird powerlink and beolink cabling in the walls, or a Beosound or two “forgotten” on a wall.

Just my opinion but sure, not everyone is here as often as before but new members come along and some are here just like before.