Bang & Olufsen BeoVision Avant Real Flat User Manual

Guide

BeoVision Avant

Contents of the Guide

To get to know your Bang & Olufsen product, two guides are at your disposal.

To the right, you find the contents of this guide. The main chapters of the Reference book are listed below:

• Setting up your BeoVision Avant, 6

• Loudspeaker connections – surround sound, 9

• Connect a set-top box, 13

• Connect a decoder, 14

• Connect other equipment, 15

• Connect audio and video systems, 16

• Distribute sound and pictures with BeoLink, 17

•

Set up BeoVision Avant in a link room, 18

• Register extra equipment, 20

• Tune in TV or Satellite channels, 22

• Add new TV or Satellite channels, 23

• Edit tuned TV or Satellite channels, 24

• Set the time and date, 30

• Set positions for viewing and standby, 31

• Set video tape recorder preferences, 32

• Adjust picture and sound settings, 34

• Daily operations, 36

• Load and play a videotape, 38

• Recording, 40

• Look up Teletext information, 44

• See two sources at the same time, 47

• Home Theatre viewing with Avant, 48

• Switch Avant on or off automatically, 50

• Use an integrated audio/video system, 52

• Use BeoVision Avant in a link room, 53

• The socket panel on the rear, 54

• lose-up operation and socket panels, 56

• The BeoVision Avant display bar, 58

• Gain access to extra functions via Beo4, 59

• Maintenance of your BeoVision Avant, 60

• For your information, 63

The Guide

The Reference book

Guide

BeoVision Avant

Reference book

BeoVision Avant

Introducing BeoVision Avant and Beo4

4 Use the Beo4 remote control 5 Displayed information and screen menus

Watch television

6 Select a TV or Satellite* channel 6 See a channel list

Turn the TV or adjust sound volume

7 Adjust viewing position 7 Adjust or mute the sound volume

Look up Teletext information

8 Main Teletext functions

Get access to your favourite Teletext pages

9 Store frequently read pages 9 Day-to-day use of memory pages

Load and play a videotape

10 Load a tape 11 Play or stop a tape 11 Search through a tape

Record a programme

12 Preset a recording via Teletext TV listings 13 Record here and now 13 See a list of scheduled recordings

Home Theatre viewing with Avant

14 Select speakers for movie sound 15 Make the picture fill out the screen

*NOTE! Satellite channels are only available if your

BeoVision Avant is equipped with the built-in

Satellite receiver module.

Introducing BeoVision Avant and Beo4

The Beo4 remote control gives you access to all BeoVision Avant functions. When a function is used or changed, you are informed via displays on Beo4 or on top of the television.

Switch on the television

Switch on a Satellite channel. Satellite channels

are only available if your Avant is equipped

with the built-in Satellite receiver module

Switch on the video tape recorder and play a

loaded tape

Switch on a connected DVD player and play a

loaded disc

Press twice to start recording here and now

Select channels or enter data in

on-screen menus

Call up the main menu for access to channel

lists, timer recording and timer play menus,

and setup options

Step between channels, chapters on a DVD disc

or CD tracks; move up and down through

on-screen menu options

Rewind or fast forward a videotape; move the

cursor from setting to setting in a fill-in menu

Accept and store instructions or settings

Adjust sound volume; press the middle to mute

the sound

Use the Beo4 remote control

Look through the basic principles of the Beo4 remote control and try them out. Each button on Beo4 is explained below.

*Refer to page 59 in the Reference book, Gain access to extra functions via Beo4, for

information about how to add extra functions to those shown in the Beo4 display window.

The Beo4 display shows the source you have selected, or extra functions available when you press the LIST button

Switch on connected audio sources, if these sources are connected to BeoVision Avant via a BeoLink cable

Adjust the room lights, if a light control system is installed

Switch on Teletext

The coloured buttons give you access to different functions, depending on the source you have selected

Reveal additional functions in the Beo4 display window, e.g. STAND*

Press to stop playback of a loaded videotape or disc; press to stop recording; press to go from one menu back to a previous menu

Exit on-screen menus

Switch BeoVision Avant to standby

BANG & OLUFSEN

TV LIGHT RADIO

SAT DVD CD

V TAPE RECORD A TAPE

789

456

TEXT

123

LIST EXIT

STOP

SAT

V TAPE

DVD

RECORD

0 – 9

▲

▼

ss tt

∧

∨

RADIO

A TAPE

LIGHT

TEXT

LIST

STOP

EXIT

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Displayed information and screen menus

Information about selected sources is displayed on top of BeoVision Avant. Menus on the screen allow you to switch on, adjust or switch off additional functions.

1 Timer record

2 Timer play

3 TV list 4 Setup

Source Pr Start Stop Date

TV 1 13:18 - 14:18 27 Oct OK

Press MENU for Teletext programming

VOL 30

TV 12

V.TAPE

The selected source is shown until you switch it off. Volume level is shown while you adjust it, and disappears after a few seconds.

On-screen menus like those shown

above will give you either a vertical list

of options to choose from or a

horizontal list of settings to fill in.

Fill-in menu

Option menu

Press to move through the option menu

Press the number keys on Beo4 to select a numbered option on a list

Press GO to enter your choice

▲ ▼

0 – 9

How to use option menus:

Press

▲

or ▼to view your choices for a single setting in a fill-in menu, or

and ttto

move from setting to setting

Press the number keys on Beo4 to enter numeric settings

Press GO to enter your choice

▲ ▼

ss tt

0 – 9

How to use fill-in menus:

For both option and fill-in menus, press STOP to go back to a previous menu, or EXIT to leave all menus.

1 Timer record

2 Timer play

3 TV list 4 Setup

Source Pr Start Stop Date

TV 1 13:30 - 14:10 27 Oct OK

Press MENU for Teletext programming

The operations shown on this page are functions you will use daily: – Choose a TV or Satellite channel

by its number;

– Switch to another channel or

source;

– Call a channel list up on the

screen;

– Adjust the position of the TV on

its motorised stand;

– Adjust the sound volume.

All of these functions can be performed via the Beo4 remote control, though you can also adjust TV position by hand.

Watch television

Select a TV or Satellite* channel

To watch a TV or Satellite channel, press the appropriate button on Beo4. BeoVision Avant switches on the last channel you watched.

See a channel list

All your TV and Satellite channels appear on separate lists, which you can call up on the screen. The lists contain channel numbers and names. The lists can contain 99 TV channels and 119 Satellite channels.

*NOTE! Satellite channels are only available if your BeoVision Avant is equipped with the built-in Satellite receiver module.

Press TV or SAT to switch on the source. The last channel viewed appears on the screen

Press a channel number to go directly to that channel

Press

▲

or ▼to change

channels one by one

Press another source button at any time to change to that source

Press to switch off BeoVision Avant

TV 2

0 – 9

▲

▼

SAT

•

While BeoVision Avant is off... Press TV or SAT to switch on a

source

Press and hold GO to call up a channel list on the screen

Press

or ttto view the previous or following page of the channel list

To select a channel to watch, press the channel number on Beo4 or press

▲

or ▼until the

cursor is on the desired channel

To switch on the chosen channel, press GO, or press EXIT to leave the menu

ss tt

0 – 9

▲

▼

EXIT

You can also call up the channel list by pressing MENU to call up the main menu, and then pressing either 3 or 4 to select the appropriate TV or Satellite list.

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