Its completely new, radical design, with hardened glass and anodised aluminium surfaces enclosing sensi-touch panels and display menus, provided a unique interactive dialogue between the user and Bang & Olufsen's audio and video systems. Manufactured: 1992 - 1995 Designer: David Lewis Colours: Stainless Steel and Black Glass Beolink 7000, designed by David Lewis was, undoubtedly, one of the most beautiful and advanced remote control units ever made.
BEOLINK 7000 SERVICE MANUAL MANUAL
Unauthorised reproduction prohibited.Beolink 7000 Service Manual Rating: 6,8/10 1100 votes Future products used a simplified operating procedure in conjunction with the Beo 4. This, and the discontinuation of the complicated separates systems that the Master Control Panels had served, meant that Beolink 7000 was the last of the larger format remote control terminals.
The designers possibly realised that they had gone too far in the pursuit of technology for its own sake. Unauthorised reproduction prohibited.īeolink 7000 was very complicated, and very expensive. When the terminal was placed either on its table base or optional telescopic stand the batteries were automatically recharged, keeping them ready for immediate use. Because of this, rechargeable batteries were built in. The LED light displays, background lighting for the LCD (a blue electroluminescent panel driven by a high voltage transformer) and motor all used a lot of power, so standard dry batteries would have needed very frequent replacement. Picking up the Beolink 7000 would cause it to automatically fold back into the normal “flat” position. After a few seconds the upper (black) part of the unit would tilt itself towards the user, and because of the weight in the lower half of the base the panel could then be used normally. This worked using two sensors on the underneath, a motor and a set of gears. The additional window carrying the touch sensors over the screen of the Beolink 7000 only made this worse, so the whole terminal was made to bend in the middle when set down on a table. Unauthorised reproduction prohibited.Ī drawback of LCD technology is the narrow viewing angle over which the display is legible. An additional LED matrix display above the LCD screen showed which source was being controlled. This required that transparent conductors were applied to the inside to the display window, and this was done using the same methods used to fabricate the LCD module itself. A large LCD panel formed a display for use with the more advanced functions, and this too was touch sensitive, using the “sensi-touch” technique. In a similar way to the Beocenter 9000 and its derivatives, Beolink 7000 “masked” unused and irrelevant functions by not illuminating them, helping to keep operation simple. This gave Beolink 7000 a clean, uncluttered appearance. Its most novel feature was that it employed the same type of “sensi-touch” controls that had previously been seen on Beomasters and Beocenters. It was originally offered with Beosystem 6500, replacing Master Control Panel 6500, and then as the recommended remote control terminal for Beosystem 7000. The Beolink 7000 was the most comprehensive and complicated remote control terminal offered by B&O.
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