Bang & Olufsen MX7000 SCART CRT TV

B&O extravaganza! BeoVision MX7000s, BeoCord V800 VCR, B&O DVD 1 Player, Beo 4 remotes, B&O motorised stand and manuals. David Lewis was a designer of many of B&O's audio & visual products including the esteemed BeoVision MX7000 CRT Television.
This video gives show cases the MX7000 and. its accessories + plus some history of Daivd Lewis's involvement with the MX7000.
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0:00 Intro
0:29 David Lewis, designer of the MX TV range
1:20 Debut of the MX7000 in 1992 and examination around the TV itself
2:54 Beo 4 remotes and manuals 4:40 BeoCord V8000 VCR test
6:02 B&O DVD 1 Player test
7:54 Motorised stand demo
9:00 Enabling scart sockets to accept RGB
9:50 NTSC Sega Saturn via RGB , Rayman
10:15 PS2 Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol. 29: Monster World Complete Collection
11:15 Light gun test, Time Crisis 3 (PS2)
11:43 Inside the TV
13:33 Transition to the MX8000
15:00 Conclusion, commemorating David Lewis 1939 - 2011

[@MatOfTheDead]

one of my dream CRTs

[@weegeesoul]

If you get the chance to check out the MX8000 go for it. Much better image quality in terms of sharpness and linearity. They also completely redesigned the menus which makes it much less of a headache to do adjustments. I can highly recommend this model.

[@RionRedemp83]

I second this. I have had 5 MX7000 and they all suffer the Rolling image in horizontal scrolling and it's quite noticeable. Upgraded to the MX8000 instead and I love them. The MX7000 models have some issues with the chassis so running arcade resolutions and whatnot can produce undesirable effects in the image. The MX8000 don't have these issues at all.

[@bojkberet]

Such a cool design

[@spaceitself]

I absolutely love the design language of the Bang & Olufsen CRTs

[@rgbrob]

sorely missed

[@sovietrazors]

Got the MX8000 . Playing Chrono Trigger on my 1chip SNES 👌

[@thresholdau]

They are great looking TVs. I've got a few B&O including a very early MX4000. Its hard to make judgements on a 30yo tv that could have had any level of breakdown or mistreatment. However, I find the b&o i've come across all have small alignment and geometry issues. Many of the early ones can't be put into service mode with the remote, as far as I can tell. Haivng RGB SCART , a great physical shape and such strongly defined scanlines is enough to make up for all of that !

[@Oldgamingfart]

Beautiful! I vaguely recall the VCR and DVD player were Philips/ Grundig OEM, which makes sense. Very cool! 😎

[@MarcoRetro316]

Well done Rob this was a very well shot and produced video and super informative. Great work and a rare find to have 2 sets all complete

[@Makinx]

After servicing my own set (replacing capacitors mostly) and fine tuning the flyback controls and service menu, the picture looks pretty great and you really can't beat the look of the set itself. Servicing it was a hell of a chore though, because of how the boards are placed inside. I'm not opening this thing up again any time soon.

[@georged7627]

Great vid mate 👍🏾

[@eddyctedtogames876]

Stunning pieces of kit. Sadly my MX7000 died on my recently. It won't power up anymore and as I'm not really a DYI kinda guy I'll have to search for another one online

[@sidnamyzo]

Such cool CRTs, always wanted one but never did pull the trigger....maybe one day

[@bensupreme2908]

Hi what are your settings for playing snes and sega megadrive thank you

[@christianmeier9993]

quick question about the gaming session... i have issues with my dreamcast lightgun... especially at the corners... it dosent recognice the shoot... any tipps to improve this?

[@vinnievincent85]

I discovered my 7000 has a brightness sensor next to the ir sensor in top right corner. Try to flash a flashlight into the top right while in a fairly dark room and you will see brightness in 240p from heaven. Sadly, I still have not figured out how to always have it on that max brightness. Note that you probably will need to down the menu brightness for this to look good. But it bassicly increases the contrast, ALOT.

[@rgbrob]

good tip! thanks for the info!

[@vinnievincent85]

@@rgbrob I am emailing b&o about a possibility to make sensor not lower the brightness now. We will see what they answer.

[@cisekarcade5072]

It is called "vision clear" they have it officially in mx series specification. I also nkticed my MX7000 is a lot brighter during day time, especially when sun hits the room, but it is way to dim in the evening and nights despite all my fiddling with it. There must be a way to disable this vision clear brightness sensor! This tv lacks pefrection only because of this dim contrast by visionclear

[@Kjeppen]

@@vinnievincent85did you hear back from them?

[@AmigaVR]

Any advice, Im having no luck finding my ps1 scart connection following the setup?

[@AmigaVR]

How to get the tv out of standby mode?

[@abdelll9737]

I need help with my MX4002. I’m trying to get RGB scart to work. Please help me.

[@fink32]

You find some bangers! Love me some B&O MX’s. Got a MX4000 and beovision avant- which is 50/60hz. Dunno if the mx7000 has the deinterlace function but shift 7 looks amazing. Edit: just managed to pick up a b&o dvd1 and v8000. The dvd1 is region free for some reason are they all region free?

[@RionRedemp83]

It has.

[@Laserdreamz]

I find on my MX4000 & 4002 the composite image is a lot brighter than RGB, can notice it when you get the system menu up, the background image changes to composite when the crisp menu pops up.

[@rgbrob]

I have seen a few different TVs over the years that are noticeably brighter in composite compared to RGB. Its like the on screen display takes over the RGB display and switches the source input to composite in the meantime.

[@SamsungS-or1qf]

Hey Rob. Does the mx7000 also show signs of digital processing, similar to 100hz, like the mx8000? If you remember you didn't recommend it for arcade gaming.

[@RionRedemp83]

That's the digital filter on the neck board that makes the image more clear. You can easily detached the cable if you want a more soft image like the MX7000 has.

[@RionRedemp83]

Here is a video on how to disable it kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaOZZoStmM-KedU

[@VID-KIDZ]

...Am Big Fan of The MX7000 as I Have 5 !!! The Picture Sizing is Tricky and The Input Switching a Pain !!! (Think : Add Two Numbers Together, the Answers a Colour ?) This Improved with the MX8000 (Has only 1) see KZbin for Remote Hack to Unlock Hidden Settings !!! Both Models Look & Sound Amazing...

[@RionRedemp83]

What do you mean by this? Remote Hack to Unlock Hidden Settings?

[@VID-KIDZ]

@@RionRedemp83 I found it on KZbin a Remote Hack... I will take a look :

[@VID-KIDZ]

Menu 1 1 Go... This will allow you to Tweak the Ser-Up of The Screen !!! (Best to make notes as What Was before Changing the Given Number Setting) Note : MX7000 will Not Show a Picture while you adjust... MX8000 Will !!!

[@RionRedemp83]

@@VID-KIDZ That's just the service menu.

[@VID-KIDZ]

@@RionRedemp83 KZbin : futurematt5 B&O De-Interlacing XBox 360 Retro Scan Lines...

[@LordRythorn]

One of the last CRT TV manufacturers. I'm very disappointed the CRT TV production stopped. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I remember the B&O CRT TVs had no satisfactory levels of contrast brightness.

[@snesfan8935]

B&O maybe cool and all that jazz, but, i more big fan of Trinitron. Especially Super Black Trinitron and FD series.

[@rgbrob]

B&O aesthetics, sound and build quality are very good but as far as picture is concerned it has no lead, there are other brands and tvs out there as good if not better.

[@silbersan]

Hello, I'm desperate and I need help. I own a wonderful B&O MX7000 and when I want to play time crisis 2 I have got the same problem like this video: kzbin.info-5GvOl3vxeg I have changed the configuration on the gun to 100hz mode and others why nothing. I also bought a PS2 to scart cable but the same result. Do I need to configure something on the MX7000? I don't know why I have got this problem. Help please. Thank you and I encourage you to put more videos

[@rgbrob]

no need for 100hz mode on mx7000. Assuming that you are using a proper Namco guncon 1 or 2 gun, you also need to have correct cabling. The gun requires plugging into composite video. You need a scart cable like this that allows the composite video lead from the gun to plug into the scart cable at console end. Have a close examination of the cable in this link: www.retrogamingcables.co.uk/SONY-PLAYSTATION-2-SYNC-ON-LUMA-RGB-SCART-CABLE-LIGHTGUN-PORT

[@elliottrowe4568]

promo sm