Bang & Olufsen MX TV User Manual

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Your BeoVision MX TV is designed to

give you years of uncomplicated

enjoyment and pleasure. All

operations can be carried out with

ease, using the Beo4 remote control.

From daily operations to setting

picture and sound preferences, you

only need to press a few buttons in a

straightforward sequence.

This guide explains how!

User’s guide

INTRODUCING BEOVISION MX

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For your safety…

• Bang & Olufsen products are developed for
indoor use in dry, domestic environments only,
and for use within a temperature range of 10­40° C (50-105° F).

• Make sure that your product is set up (placed
and connected) in accordance with the
enclosed setting-up instructions.

• Always place your Bang & Olufsen product on a
firm and stable surface. Products placed on
soft, heavy carpets must be duly protected
against overturning.

• TV sets placed on Bang & Olufsen stands with
castors must always be moved with the utmost
caution. Special care must be taken when a TV
on its stand is moved over uneven surfaces or
obstacles, for example a carpet, a cable on the
floor, etc.

• Do not place any items on the product.

• Do not attempt to open your Bang & Olufsen
product. Leave such operations to qualified
service personnel.

LIST OF CONTENTS

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4 PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION

Beo4 Remote control, 4

5 Using this guide
6 On-screen menus

Help to start using the on-screen
menus, 6

8 TUNING

Tuning in TV stations, 8

10 PROGRAM LIST

Calling up the program list, 10

11 TV channel/frequency conversion list

12 CLOCK

How to set the clock, 12

14 STAND

Presetting a stand position, 14

15 TIMER SOUND

Switching Timer sound to on or off, 15

16 DAILY OPERATIONS

Using your MX TV, 16

17 TELETEXT

How to call up Teletext pages, 17
Presetting your own favourite Teletext
pages, 17
Using the basic Teletext functions, 18
Teletext subtitles, 19
Making the subtitles appear
automatically, 19
Page update Teletext function, 20
“Fastext” or FLOF, 21
Making Timer recordings via Teletext, 22

25 PICTURE AND SOUND

Adjusting the Picture, 25
Adjusting the Sound, 26
Switching sound, 28

30 BEOVISION MX AND AUDIO SYSTEM

Video sound in audio speakers – or vice
versa, 30

31 LINK ROOM WITH BEOVISION MX

Using BeoVision MX in a link room, 31

32 BEOVISION MX PLACEMENT AND

CONNECTIONS

Placement, 32
Maintenance, 32
Sockets and buttons on the front, 32
Sockets on the rear panel, 33

34 REGISTERING EXTRA EQUIPMENT

TV setup for connected equipment, 34

36 MENUS FOR OTHER SOURCES

38 QUICK GUIDE TO MX MENUS

39 MISCL. INFORMATION

Before you start…

This guide explains how to preset and use your
BeoVision MX TV with the Beo4 remote control.
For connections, maintenance, and setting-up
instructions, please refer to pages 32-35 of this
guide.

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The Beo4 remote control

Beo4 remote control

The Beo4 remote control is the key to
all the functions in your BeoVision MX
TV. You can rest the remote control on
a table or you can hold it in your hand.

Whichever way is most convenient for
you, you will find that the remote
control always responds readily to your
instructions.

Nice to know about Beo4 buttons…

In the step-by-step operating sequences shown
in this guide, the buttons on the Beo4 and cues
on the Beo4 display will be illustrated like this:

Rectangular buttons for source
control, numbers and dedicated
functions

Buttons within the star-shaped
button for stepping and winding,
and operation of on-screen menus

The circular GO button in the
middle of the star-shaped button
for accepting and storing
instructions or information

The coloured buttons in the star­shaped button are used for special
functions, it will be explained in
this guide when and how to use
them

The LIST button always requires
that you press it repeatedly to
reveal more functions or cues from
the Beo4 LIST of functions on the
Beo4 display

Cues or functions appear in the
Beo4 display when LIST is pressed
repeatedly, they represent extra
functions. The display also shows a
cue for the source buttons you
press

STAND

GO

LIST

TV

PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION

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USING THIS GUIDE

This User’s guide explains how to
operate your BeoVision MX TV using
the Beo4 remote control. It will guide
you through the operations available
for your MX TV.

In the column to either the far left or
right of the page, the operation in
question is shown as a sequence of
buttons which correspond to the
buttons on your Beo4 remote control.
This sequence is accompanied by a
short instruction.

In most cases, the instructions in the
button sequences are supported by
illustrations of the menus on the TV
screen.

The operation in question is described
in the main text.

The remarks e.g. ‘Note:…’; which are
differentiated from the main text have
various functions which include:

• Troubleshooting; describing specific
circumstances which may occur
during an operation

• Providing additional information,
such as detailed information about
the contents of the menus

• Informing about conditions which
may need to be fulfilled before an
operation is commenced.

Freq Fine System Decoder

210 +1 B/G Off

The first item in the MX Setup
menu, Tuning, calls up the menu
which enables you to tune in to TV
stations and store them on program
numbers of their own …

Note: See the next page for further
information about the items in the Tuning
menu. …

Switch on the TV

Call up the Main TV menu

Press repeatedly to light up Setup
in red

Press to call up the Setup menu

The Setup menu appears, then…

MENU

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Example of a sequence of buttons

Example of a fill-in menu

Example of a Main text

Example of a remark or ‘Note’ text

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Operation of the more advanced
functions in your MX TV is guided by
on-screen menus. The main TV menu
introduces you to all these functions.
The main menu must always be called
up first before you can access the other
menus.

Each item in the main menu represents
another menu/function:

• TV program list… calls up the
program list

• Sound… calls up the sound
adjustment menu

• Picture… calls up the picture
adjustment menu

• Setup… calls up the Setup menu for
the MX TV, where you can choose
menus for tuning as well as menus
where you must preset the system,
such as setting the clock or a stand
position

Fill-in menus…

Some of the menus you call up via the
main menu are menus in which you
must fill in information.

In fill-in menus, you must enter the
information required, in e.g. the
Tuning menu, it is, among other things,
required that you search for a station.

Switch on the TV

Call up the main menu

The main menu appears…

Press to move the red text/cursor to
the other items in the menu

Make sure that the item/function
you want is lit up in red, then…

Press to call up the menu for that
particular function

A fill-in menu appears…

Press to reveal options for the
individual items

Key in the information, using the
number buttons

Press to move from item to item
in the menu

When you have entered all the
relevant information…

Press to store the information

Press to return to the previous
menu without storing what you
entered

Press to remove the menus from
the screen

Help to start using the on-screen menus

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Menu

• TV program list

• Sound

• Picture

• Setup

The main menu – when you call up the main
menu, the first item in the menu is lit up in red
– The items are lit up in red when you select
them.

Example of a fill–in menu – the menu is
for picture adjustment. You change a preset
setting or fill in the necessary information.

Using fill-in menus…

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TUNING

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Tuning in TV stations

Before you start…

Make sure that you select the appropriate
broadcast system in the Tuning menu before you
start tuning in channels. Please note that the TV’s
are equipped to receive the appropriate broadcast
system, only some TV’s offer more than one
broadcast system.

To be able to watch any programmes
on your MX TV you must tune in the
stations you want that are available in
your area. You must call up the
Tuning menu to access the tuning
function.

The tuning function consists of two
menus. A menu for the actual tuning
in and a second menu where you must
fill in the required information
regarding your station, such as
program number as well as choose any
other characteristics you want for the
individual station.

Repeat this procedure for all the
stations you want to tune in.

See the following page for
information about the individual items
on the two Tuning menus…

Press to call up the main menu

The main menu appears…

Press until Setup is lit up

Press to call up the menu

The Setup menu appears…

Press to call up Tuning

The Tuning menu appears, Freq is lit
up already…

Press to let the system search for
TV stations

Or use the number keys to key in an
exact frequency, e.g. 210 Mhz

Fill in the necessary information in
this first menu…
Press to move to the other items
in the menu

Press to reveal options for the items
in the menu;

Press GO to store and move to the
second Tuning menu

The second Tuning menu appears…

Fill in the characteristics you want
for your station and move to

Store…

Press GO to store your station

Press to remove the menus

Freq Fine System Decoder

210 +1 B/G Off

Menu

• TV program list

• Sound

• Picture

• Setup

Setup

• Tuning

• Timer

• Clock

• Sockets

• Stand

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The main menu

The Setup menu – provides access to functions
such as, Timer sound, setting the clock, registering
TV setup and presetting positions for the stand as
well as Tuning

The first Tuning menu – is mainly for the actual
tuning of stations. Decoder only appears, if a
decoder has been registered for your TV.

Pg Name Sound

11 . . . . . . . . . . Stereo Store

The second Tuning menu – allows you to add
characteristics to your station such as program
number and name.

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What’s on the first Tuning menu…
Freq

The frequency of the stations. You prompt the TV
to search for a station. The tuning stops at the
first station producing an acceptable signal.
If you wish to continue searching, press

▲ or ▼

again. If you know the exact frequency, you can
key it in directly*.

*Note: See the list on page 11 for a conversion of
TV channel numbers to frequencies.

Fine

Fine tuning of a station. The TV automatically
tunes to the best possible picture. If neighbouring
channels blur the picture slightly, fine tuning may
be necessary.

You fine tune by 1 step below or above the
standard frequency.

System

TV broadcast system – select the TV broadcast
system which is available or most appropriate:

For example:
B/G PAL/SECAM B/G system
L SECAM L system
I PAL I system

Note: Not all TVs are equipped to receive all
systems.

Decoder

If you need a decoder for a station – the TV can
cut in a decoder automatically for the station in
question. On indicates cutting the decoder in
and Off no decoder. In order for Decoder to
appear on the menu, however, you must
register your Decoder, see Registering extra
equipment, pages 34-35 for further instruction.

What’s on the second Tuning menu…
Pg

Program number – you can use the program
numbers 1-59. The indication – shows that the
frequency has not already been tuned in to.

If the station/frequency has already been stored,
a program number appears under Pg when you
call up the second Tuning menu.

Name

A name may contain 10 characters (indicated by
the 10 dots in the menu), including the letters
from A to Z, numbers and full stop. The first of
the 10 dots blinks, indicating that you can start
“writing” a name.

You must reveal the characters for the positions
you wish to fill in. Press

▲ until the letter you

want is revealed, press

tt to move to next

position and press

▲ or ▼ to reveal letters. To

switch from upper to lower case, or vice versa,
press 0.

When you start “writing” a name, the dots
disappear. The name is automatically
transferred to the program list. See the next
page for further details of the program list.

Every time you select a station you have named,
the name appears briefly on the screen.

Sound

Several types of sound may be available for a TV
station e.g. both stereo and mono sound, or
two or three different languages. You can
choose to store a specific type of sound or
language with your station.

The options are…

Mono Mono sound
Stereo Stereo sound
Mono-1 Language 1 – mono
Mono-2 Language 2 – mono
Mono-3 Language 3 – mono
Stereo-2 Language 2 – stereo

Store

Finally, accepting Store stores your station and
returns you to Tuning in the Setup menu and you
can now choose to continue tuning. You
still have an opportunity, though, to remove all
the data you have entered by revealing Clear
instead of Store in the menu. Use

▲ or ▼ to

reveal Clear instead of Store and then press GO.

Clearing a stored station…

If you want to clear a station, you have tuned
in already, switch on to the program number
you want to clear, then call up the second
Tuning menu as explained on these two pages.
Once the menu appears, make
sure that the correct program number is
displayed, move to Store and press

▼ to

reveal Clear instead of Store and press GO.

PROGRAM LIST

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Press to call up the main menu

The main menu appears, TV Program
list is lit up already

Press to see the TV program list

The TV program list appears…

Press to see the pages of the list

Key in the number of the station you
want to watch,
for example 5

The program number you selected
is indicated on the menu…

Press to leave the program list and
return to the station you were
originally watching

Press to leave the program list

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Calling up the program list

All the stations stored in your TV
appear in a program list.

There are three pages with the
numbers 1-19, 20-39 and 40-59, listing
the program numbers and their
names*, if any such exist. You will
always see the page where the station
you are currently on is listed.

If you want to see one of the stations,
currently listed on the screen, simply
key in the appropriate number, or,
press TV to return to your current
station.

*Note: If you want to see the name of the station
you are currently watching without calling up the
program list, press TV.

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TV Program list – the program numbers 1–19 are
listed on-screen. You are currently watching
program number 5.

A light blue dotted line indicates that a station
has been stored on the particular number, but it
has not been named.

A dark blue dotted line indicates that the
particular program number is not in use and
cannot be selected.

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1 BBC 1 11 . . . . . . . . .

2 BBC 2 12 Eurosport

3 ITV 13 . . . . . . . . .

4 Sky 14 . . . . . . . . .

5 Super Ch 15 MTV

6 ZDF 16 . . . . . . . . .

7 Children 17 . . . . . . . . .

8 CNN 18 . . . . . . . . .

9 . . . . . . . . . . 19 . . . . . . . . .

Menu

• TV program list

• Sound

• Picture

• Setup

The main menu

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TV CHANNEL/FREQUENCY CONVERSION LIST

Italy

Channel
designation
number

On-screen
display
MHz

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
H1
H2

53
62
82
175
183
197
201
210
217
224

Australia

Channel
designation
number

On-screen
display
MHz

0
1
2
3
4
5
5A
6
7
8
9
10
11

46
57
64
86
95
102
138
175
182
189
196
209
216

France

Channel
designation
number

On-screen
display
MHz

FA
FB
FC1
FC
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
F6

47
55
60
63
176
184
192
200
208
216

VHF

Channel
designation
number

On-screen
display
MHz

E2
E3
E4
E5
E6
E7
E8
E9
E10
E11
E12
S01
S02
S03
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
S6
S7
S8
S9
S10
S11
S12
S13
S14

48
55
62
175
182
189
196
203
210
217
224
69
76
83
105
112
119
126
133
140
147
154
161
168
231
238
245
252

S15
S16
S17
S18
S19
S20
S21
S22
S23
S24
S25
S26
S27
S28
S29
S30
S31
S32
S33
S34
S35
S36
S37
S38
S39
S40
S41

259
266
273
280
287
294
303
311
319
327
335
343
351
359
367
375
383
391
399
407
415
423
431
439
447
455
463

Channel
designation
number

On-screen
display
MHz

UHF

Channel
designation
number

On-screen
display
MHz

21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48

471
479
487
495
503
511
519
527
535
543
551
559
567
575
583
591
599
607
615
623
631
639
647
655
663
671
679
687

49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69

695
703
711
719
727
735
743
751
759
767
775
783
791
799
807
815
823
831
839
847
855

Channel
designation
number

On-screen
display
MHz

This list of frequencies gives you the usual
channel designations and their corresponding
frequencies.

CLOCK

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How to set the clock…

You have to set the 24-hour clock in
your MX TV to the correct time.

If the station you are on transmits
Teletext, you can synchronise with
Teletext. This means that the TV clock
is always in exact accordance with the
Teletext time*.

To do so, call up the station or
program number whose Teletext time
you want synchronise with before you
call up any of the menus.

If the TV station does not transmit
Teletext, use the number buttons on
Beo4 to set the clock manually.

Likewise, you must set the clock
manually if you choose to disable
Teletext time.

See the following page for
information of the individual items on
the menu…

*Note: The clock in your TV will automatically be
set to the correct time when, for example, the
official time changes from Winter to Summer
time. Even if power failures occur, or if the TV has
been unplugged from the mains, you don’t have
to set it again.

Menu

• TV program list

• Sound

• Picture

• Setup

Time Text time

12:00 TV program 1

Setup

• Tuning

• Timer

• Clock

• Sockets

• Stand

The main menu

The Setup menu

The Clock menu – on the menu, the time is now
12 o’clock pm, and it is synchronised with your TV
program 1.

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To set the clock yourself without using Teletext,
see the button sequence on the following page…

Press to call up the main menu

The main menu appears…

Press until Setup is lit up

Press to call up the Setup menu

The Setup menu appears…

Press until Clock is lit up

Press to call up the Clock menu

The Clock menu appears…

If Teletext is currently transmitted,
you can synchronise with Teletext
time…

Press to move to Text time

Press to display the current program
number

The program number appears under
Text time…

Press GO to synchronise the time

The Clock menu appears again…

Press GO to store the time

If no Teletext time is available,
No Text time appears under the
item Text time…

Use the number keys to key in
the correct time

Press GO to store the time