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I have a BV7 up on my wall that I purely use as a computer monitor for work and occasional youtube or BBC iPlayer. I was thinking about (my wife asked me about) being able to watch regular TV on it and I guess that my options are either
Two seems easier/tidier but there's also a mountain of "computer tv adaptors" and I guess there's good ones and bad ones. Anyone have experience with these things?
Calvin:I have a BV7 up on my wall that I purely use as a computer monitor for work and occasional youtube or BBC iPlayer. I was thinking about (my wife asked me about) being able to watch regular TV on it and I guess that my options are either Get a proper TV decoder box that's B&O compatible, run cables down the inside of the wall and have to switch sources when I change Get a USB adaptor, plug the ariel into the back of the Mac and be able to click onto local stations in a web browser or the dock Two seems easier/tidier but there's also a mountain of "computer tv adaptors" and I guess there's good ones and bad ones. Anyone have experience with these things?
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The North American version of the BV7 has a built-in ATSC tuner. Just connect an antenna and it will receive OTA (over the air) broadcasts. The tuner can be accessed by pressing the DTV button on the Beo 4 remote.
Regards,
Jean
I'm wondering whether that's only certain models or it needs to be enabled as a firmware thing? If I click DTV on the Beo4 model (middle left button at the top) it does nothing. That (and the TV showing static) is what lead me to believe you need a decoder box.
I don't know about that B&O TV, but if you see static rather than complete black, that suggests there is some tuner, attempting to tune onto *something* -- perhaps an old analog frequency (e.g. tuning to 12 rather than 12.1)? In answer to your original question, I keep an old Mac Mini running EyeTV under MacOS 10.6.8, and either use an old EyeTV box or a networked Silicon Dust "HDHomeRun" box. Surely more modern solutions exist, but with an old TV and ATSC 3.0 on the way, inexpensive used equipment fills the bill.
I am currently using my BV7-40 with its ATSC tuner and it works well. Check if the DTV input has been reassigned to some other function. If you press MENU after the DTV input has been selected, you should see a menu using a different font showing options to search channels, etc. If no, it has been reassigned to another input and you need to assign it again with the tuner. To my knowledge, all versions of the North American BV7 has a built-in ATSC tuner.
Good luck,
To ensure that the ATSC tuner is enabled, press the V.MEM button on the Beo 4, select TV TUNER and set ATSC to ON if it is not. (I just checked on mine).
When I click DTV on the Beo4, the screen on the remote changes (so the button is working) but the TV does nothing at all and there's no sign of ATSC in the menus. It's like it doesn't know what DTV is. To clarify, the back of it says BeoVision 7 (Model 9371)
(I guess I'll post a new page on the forum if I don't hear back anything further seeing as this is no longer about Mac tuners)
Then do the procedure with the V.MEM button described above to see if ATSC is enabled or not and enable it.
V.MEM followed by MENU (you may have to press twice if you have a device assigned to it) then TV-TUNER to see the options.
VMEM normally plays menu has
Play TImer || Options || Stand Positions
Options has
Connections || Sound || Picture || Closed Captions || Parental Control || Clock
The closest I can find to the TV is in Connections where there's AV 1-6 and also RF which has the options of
Antenna || Cable || Cable Box || None
The "Antenna" options kicks off a channel search which is comes back all blank. At this point, I'm wondering if maybe the aerial cable coming out the wall isn't anything to do with the aerial on the roof and it's maybe just a cable leading to where my internet comes in down in the basement. Perhaps it's worth finding out by borrowing an HDMI tv box from a neighbour, plugging it in and seeing if a channel search from that has channels or not.
I think it might be time to call an America B&O dealer and ask if that TV actually has a built in tuner.
Just to close off this thread, two parts/answers:
A bad outcome on all fronts and a shame really. We don't watch much tv and what we do is online but it would have been nice to have the local news, I'm not going to sign up to a $50/month cable tv subscription for that though.
It's odd though, we just moved into this house and there is an aerial/satellite thing on the roof (size of a frying pan) so I assumed that meant there would be a terrestrial broadcast signal coming in some place but no luck finding it as of yet.