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  • Page 1 BeoVision 8 Guide...
  • Page 2 CAUTION RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK DO NOT OPEN CAUTION: To reduce the risk of electric shock, do not remove cover (or back). No User-serviceable parts inside. Refer servicing to qualified service personnel. WARNING: To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this appliance to rain or moisture.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents We expect your Bang & Olufsen Daily operation, 4 retailer to deliver, install and set up • Introducing your television and Beo4, 4 your products. However, the • Watch TV, 6 information required to install and set • Adjust sound and picture format, 8 •...

  • Page 4: Daily Operation

    Introducing your television and Beo4 For information about how to operate connected The Beo4 remote control gives you access equipment, refer to the Guide enclosed with it. to all functions. When a function is in use, For information on how to add extra functions to you are informed via displays on Beo4 those shown in the Beo4 display, refer to the or on the television.
  • Page 5 Displayed information and menus Information about the selected source is shown in the display. On-screen menus allow you to adjust settings. TV SETUP Menu name TUNING How to use on-screen CONNECTIONS Menu options SOUND menus … PICTURE Press to switch on the television MENU LANGUAGE Press to bring up the TV SETUP MENU...

  • Page 6: Watch Tv

    Watch TV This chapter describes daily use of Select a TV channel Bring up a channel list your television: how to switch the When you switch the television on, the last All your TV channels appear on a list, which television on, choose a channel and channel viewed appears on the screen.
  • Page 7 CHANNEL LIST 1 SAT 1 2 INFOKANAL 3 RTL 4 MTV 5 DISCOVERY 6 EUROSPORT 7 ARD 8 TV4 9 DR1 10 ..11 ZDF 12 SVT 1 13 ..14 TV3 15 TVDK1 16 TVDK2...

  • Page 8: Adjust Sound And Picture Format

    Adjust sound and picture format Several sound adjustment possibilities Adjust volume or mute the sound Sound type or language are available in your television. You can adjust volume or mute the sound at While you are watching TV, you can switch any time.

  • Page 9: Picture Format

    Speaker combination Picture format If you connect loudspeakers to your television, Select a picture format to optimise the picture. Picture formats to choose from … you can change the speaker combination at FORMAT 1 … For standard TV pictures. Three any time.

  • Page 10: Teletext

    Teletext If you select a channel and the Basic teletext functions broad caster offers a teletext service, Navigate through teletext pages by using the PAGE MEMO HALT LARGE REVEAL SETUP the television gives you access to P100 S100 Wed 13 Oct 12:39:34 menu bar at the top of the teletext page.
  • Page 11 Store favourite teletext pages Day-to-day use of MEMO pages First time use of teletext You may wish to refer to your teletext MEMO PAGE MEMO1 HALT LARGE REVEAL SETUP P100 S100 Wed 13 Oct 12:39:34 PAGE MEMO2 HALT LARGE REVEAL SETUP pages quickly, for example, if you are leaving P100...

  • Page 12: Menu Overview

    Menu overview The illustration on this page shows TV SETUP SOUND p. 43 the content of the menu system, and ADJUSTMENT TUNING also indicates where in this Guide EDIT CHANNELS p. 36 VOLUME ADD CHANNELS p. 40 BASS you can find further information AUTO TUNING p.

  • Page 13: Advanced Operation

    Advanced operation This chapter tells you how to operate Daily operation, 4 a connected source, how to use your Find out how to use the Beo4 remote control, bring up the menus on the screen, television as a computer monitor, and operate the daily functions of your television and how to adjust sound and picture how to operate your television with format.

  • Page 14: Use Connected Video Equipment With Beo4

    Use connected video equipment with Beo4 The built­in Peripheral Unit Controller Peripheral Unit Controller menu acts as an interpreter between Buttons on the remote controls included with connected video equipment, such as your equipment may not match those on a set­top box, video recorder or DVD Beo4.
  • Page 15 Universal Beo4 operation Use equipment menus Use equipment in a link room If you know which Beo4 button activates the Once you have activated connected When you have connected equipment to the function you want, you can activate the equipment, you can operate its own menus television in the main room, you can operate function without bringing up the Peripheral with Beo4.

  • Page 16: Use Your Television As A Computer Monitor

    Use your television as a computer monitor If you connect your television to a Bring up the computer image on the screen computer, as described on page 49, To see the computer picture on the television The television supports the following screen you can use it as a monitor.

  • Page 17: Two Televisions In The Same Room

    Two televisions in the same room If you have placed your BeoVision 8 One remote control for both televisions in a room where you already have a For your television to function properly, it is Bang & Olufsen television, and...

  • Page 18: Connect And Operate An Audio System

    Connect and operate an audio system Connect your audio system If your television is equipped with the Using a Master Link cable, connect the MASTER optional System Module and you LINK sockets on the television and the audio Option 2 Option 0 connect a compatible audio system, system.
  • Page 19 Use an integrated audio/video system If you integrate your audio system and your television, you can choose a speaker combination appropriate to the current video or audio programme, and also record video sound on the audio system. Video sound recording If you listen to sound from your television on your LIST LIST...

  • Page 20: Beovision In A Link Room

    4 Make the link and aerial connections. 5 Reconnect the link room television to the mains. NOTE! If your BeoVision 8 is linked to a video master with the possibility of programming a Timer Play, the Timer Play can be executed on BeoVision 8.
  • Page 21 Link room operation Listen to stereo sound in your link room … Main room Link room Use sources present only in one of the Usually sound distributed from a main room video rooms … source, such as a set­top box, to the link room is >...

  • Page 22: Beolink - Distribute Sound And Picture

    BeoLink – Distribute sound and picture The BeoLink system makes it possible Link connections to distribute picture and/or sound to other rooms throughout the house. If you have a BeoLink distribution To the MASTER LINK socket on the system installed, and your television link room system MASTER LINK...
  • Page 23 System modulator Recommended setups LINK If your link room is an audio setup, for example, a If your television is the video master of a BeoLink FREQUENCY BeoLink Active/Passive, and you choose to set up setup, we recommend that a BeoCenter 2 or DVD 2 TV SYSTEM a non­linkable TV in the same room, you must set is connected to the AV1 socket and HDR 2 must...

  • Page 24: Tv Tuner

    Tuner setup You may choose to disable the TV To disable the internal tuner … TUNER SETUP > Press TV to switch on the television. tuner, if your television source is the TV TUNER > Press MENU to bring up the TV SETUP menu DVB HD or a peripheral unit, such as DVB HD and press...

  • Page 25: Tuning And Preference Settings

    Tuning and preference settings Find out how to perform the first­ Daily operation, 4 Find out how to use the Beo4 remote control, bring up the menus on the screen, time setup procedure and tune in all operate the daily functions of your television and how to adjust sound and picture available channels automatically.
  • Page 26 First-time setup of your television First-time setup of your television has four The setup procedure described here is main steps: registration of all connected activated when the television is MENU LANGUAGE equipment, tuning of channels, loudspeaker TUNER connected to the mains and switched setup and sound adjustment.
  • Page 27 The sequence of menus in first-time setup: SPEAKER DISTANCE … Enter the straight­line For information about where and how to connect MENU LANGUAGE … You can select the distances from each speaker to your listening extra equipment, refer to ‘Register additional language for on­screen menus.
  • Page 28 Register additional video equipment If you connect additional video What is connected? equipment to your television, you Registering the equipment connected to the must register the equipment in the television enables you to activate it with the SOURCE V. MEM CONNECTIONS menu.
  • Page 29 When you have connected additional video While it is possible to register your equipment equipment to your television, you must also under any of the available source names, the DTV SETUP ‘tell’ the system what is connected. names you select affect how you can use your SELECTOR NOKIA 9800S/025 sources.
  • Page 30 Loudspeaker setup – surround sound Add four Power Link speakers and a Select speaker types BeoLab subwoofer to your setup and Connect the loudspeakers to the Power Link SPEAKER TYPE you have a surround sound system. sockets on the television. Refer to the Guide FRONT BEOLAB 8000 enclosed with the loudspeakers for specific...
  • Page 31 Set speaker distance Switch on the television from your favourite SPEAKER DISTANCE viewing position. Enter the straight-line CENTRE 1.0 M distances in metres between your position LEFT FRONT 1.0 M and the individual speakers. RIGHT FRONT 1.0 M RIGHT REAR 1.0 M LEFT REAR 1.0 M...
  • Page 32 >> Loudspeaker setup – surround sound Calibrate the sound level When you have connected speakers in a To calibrate the sound level … SPEAKER LEVEL surround sound setup to the television, you > Press MENU to bring up the TV SETUP menu SEQUENCE AUTOMATIC must perform a speaker calibration.
  • Page 33 Choose a speaker combination While you are watching a movie or To choose a speaker combination … programme, you can choose the speaker > Press LIST on Beo4 until SPEAKER is shown in combination you wish to switch on, provided the Beo4 display.
  • Page 34 >> Loudspeaker setup – surround sound See the name of the active sound system You can see the name of the active sound SOUND SYSTEM system for a source or programme on the INPUT FORMAT: screen. The menu shows both the input MONO /STEREO format and the output format.

  • Page 36: Edit Tuned Channels

    Edit tuned channels If automatic tuning of all channels Move or delete tuned channels have not stored the channels on your At any time, you can move or delete any EDIT CHANNELS preferred channel numbers or has tuned TV channels you do not want. INFOKANAL not named all the stored channels 2 .
  • Page 37 Name tuned channels The EDIT CHANNELS menu also allows you to EDIT CHANNELS name all channels yourself. 1 INFOKANAL 3 B B Name channels … 5 ZDF > Press TV to switch on the television. 6 RTL7 > Press MENU to bring up the TV SETUP menu. 7 .
  • Page 38 >> Edit tuned channels Adjust tuned TV channels – manual tuning You can store TV channels on channel The item TV SYSTEM appears on the menu, then numbers of their own. Fine tune the channel make sure that the correct broadcast system is reception, indicate the presence of coded displayed before you begin tuning.
  • Page 39 MANUAL TUNING FREQUENCY CHANNEL NO. NAME FINE TUNE DECODER TV SYSTEM SOUND STEREO search store...
  • Page 40 Re-tune or add channels You can make your television find Re-tune via automatic tuning your TV channels for you. You can re-tune all your TV channels by AUTO TUNING ..............letting the television tune in all the channels Preset up to 99 different TV channels automatically.

  • Page 41: Add New Channels

    Add new channels You can add a new channel or update a tuned ADD CHANNELS channel which, for example, has been moved ..............by the broadcaster. 9 ... . 10 ... . 11 CNN 12 N3 >...

  • Page 42: Adjust Picture And Sound Settings

    Adjust picture and sound settings Picture and sound settings are preset Change brightness, colour or contrast from the factory to neutral values Adjust the picture settings via the PICTURE PICTURE which suit most viewing and listening menu. Temporary settings are cancelled ..

  • Page 43: Sound Adjustments

    Sound adjustments Sound settings are preset at the factory to > Press MENU to bring up the TV SETUP menu SOUND neutral values which suit most listening and press to highlight SOUND....VOLUME situations. However, if you wish, you can >...

  • Page 44: Choose Menu Language

    Choose menu language You can select the language for on-screen The menu language you choose MENU LANGUAGE menus via the TV SETUP menu. The text on during the first­time setup of your DANSK the screen changes as you move from DEUTSCH television can be changed at any language to language.

  • Page 45: Placement, Sockets And Connections

    Placement, sockets and connections In this chapter, you can find out how Daily operation, 4 to place and connect your television. Find out how to use the Beo4 remote control, bring up the menus on the screen, It also gives you an overview of the operate the daily functions of your television and how to adjust sound and picture socket panels.
  • Page 46 Set up the television For information about how to fasten Handling your television and run the cables on the rear of the Avoid placing the television in direct sunlight television, refer to this page. or direct artificial light, such as a spotlight, as this may reduce the sensitivity of the remote For further information about the control receiver.
  • Page 47 To remove the two covers for the main connection panel, first pull out, then pull down at the bottom – also if the television is placed on a stand. To release the cover for the Smart Card and CA- module (3), press the cover to the right. Always remove cover 1 before removing cover 2.
  • Page 48 >> Set up the television Connections The diagrams on these two pages outline how to set up the television with video sources and loudspeakers, and how to expand the setup, for example with a compatible POWER LINK Bang & Olufsen audio system, or with a computer.
  • Page 49 AV 1–2 Decoder R – L AV 1–4 (AV3) MASTER LINK AV 1–4 Satellite (STB) AV 4 Recorder (HDR) This diagram shows examples of additional video Computer Audio system equipment that can be connected to the television You can connect a computer and use the tele­ If you have a Bang &...

  • Page 50: Connection Panels

    Connection panels Standard sockets System Module sockets The connection panels on your television allow you to connect signal input cables (Mains supply) AV 4 as well as a variety of extra equipment, Connection to the mains supply. 21­pin sockets for connection of additional video such as a video recorder or DVD.
  • Page 51 HDMI IN SPDIF 1 PUC 1 PUC 3 AV 1 AV 2 AERIAL SPDIF 2 PUC 2 AV 3 PUC 4 Standard sockets MASTER AV 4 LINK System Module and DVB sockets POWER FRONT REAR LINK Surround Sound Module sockets Surround Sound Module sockets Smart Card reader and CA module SMARTCARD...

  • Page 52: Sockets For Temporary Connections

    Camera and headphones sockets You can connect headphones and Sockets for temporary connections listen to a programme, or you can PHONES connect a Camcorder and watch your You can connect stereo headphones to the socket home movies on the tele vision. If you marked PHONES.

  • Page 53: Maintenance

    Maintenance Regular maintenance, such as cleaning Changing the Beo4 batteries Cleaning the television, is the responsibility of Never use alcohol or other solvents to clean the user. To achieve the best result, any part of the television, stand or wall follow the instructions to the right.

  • Page 54: Index

    Index Beo4 remote control Displays and menus Changing the Beo4 batteries, 53 Displayed information and menus, 5 Cleaning the Beo4, 53 Menu overview, 12 Introducing your television and Beo4, 4 On-screen menus, 5 Replace Beo4 batteries, 53 Using Beo4, 4 DVB HD CA module, 51 BeoLink...
  • Page 55 Maintenance Socket panels Tune Change Beo4 batteries, 53 Camera and headphones sockets, 52 Add new TV channels, 40 Handling your television, 46 Connection panels, 50 Adjust tuned channels, 38 Maintenance of your television, 53 Sockets for temporary connections, 52 Auto-tuning – first-time setup of your Picture screen, 53 television, 27 Delete tuned channels, 36...
  • Page 56 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Electrical and electronic equipment, parts and Collecting electrical and electronic equipment, (WEEE) – Environmental protection batteries marked with this symbol must not be batteries and waste prevents the potential disposed of with normal household wastage; all contamination of nature with the hazardous electrical and electronic equipment, parts and substances which may be present in electrical and...
  • Page 57 This product incorporates copyright protection This product is in conformity with the Manufactured under license from Dolby technology that is protected by U.S. patents provisions of the Directives 2004/108/EC Laboratories. Dolby, Pro Logic, and the 4,631,603; 4,577,216; 4,819,098; 4,907,093; and and 2006/95/EC.
  • Page 58 For your information … Your needs as a user are given careful consideration during the design and development process of a Bang & Olufsen product and we strive to make our products easy and comfortable to operate. Therefore, we hope that you will take the time to tell us about your experiences with your Bang &...

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