beosystem 3 - beocenter - socket unit

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beobelg Posted: Tue, Apr 25 2017 11:41 AM

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good morning

congrats for this forum, looks very promessing.

i plan to add a dvd player to my beosystem. if i buy the beocenter 2 dvd, do i need to buy this with the socket unit or can i connect the beocenter 2 dvd directly with the beocenter?

thanks for helping me on this

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beojeff replied on Tue, Apr 25 2017 11:52 AM

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Welcome to BeoWorld.

The BeoCenter 2 requires the socket unit as the socket unit provides all of the connections. The only connection from the head unit of the BeoCenter 2 is a connection to the socket unit.

While the BeoCenter 2 is a beautiful player, I think you'll be quite disappointed with the video quality. Even for just DVD playback, current blu-ray players provide a much better video, upconverting and scaling the video from DVDs to a much nicer picture than the BeoCenter 2 can provide.

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beobelg replied on Tue, Apr 25 2017 2:21 PM

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Thank you for this Jef.  Do I understand you correctly that the Beocenter 2's quality for watching DVD is no better than what B&O DVD2 provides?

kind regards,

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Steve at Sounds Heavenly replied on Tue, Apr 25 2017 4:27 PM

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Hi beobelg,

Welcome to Beoworld!  Yes, the video output of the Beocenter 2 DVD is standard definition via composite video, so possibly slightly lower picture quality than B&O's DVD 2 which I think from memory had component (RGB) output, again at standard definition.

Beocenter 2 is best viewed as an elegant CD player and radio unit instead of as a DVD player.  In audio use, it gives superb sound quality and the styling is unique and timeless.

A modern DVD/blu-ray player will give far better performance for video playback.

Kind regards, Steve.