Before I go spendign money on any useless adapters or cables, I'm hopign for some advice here. I want to take the Beovision 8-40 out of my office and replace it with the Beovision 7-32 I had stored away unused for a while.  I know it's older, but it looks so good, and I have just managed to get hold of a motorised stand for it too. Of course the BV7-32 has no HDMI inputs.  The nearest it has in a DVI-I, so I bought a cheap HDMI-DVI-I adapter from Amazon to test it, and connected my Google TV device to it.  I then set AV2 up as 'PC' in the connections menu, and switched the HDTV option to 'DVI-I' I got a picture from my Google TV but it was poor, and had lines across.  I unplugged the adapter, plugged it back in, and the picture disappeared completely - it's a cheap adapter I bought just to test it, so probably juts poor quality. So, this is what I want to connect to my Bv7:

• Google TV
• Nintendo Switch
• Nintendo Wii U

All of these would normally be connected via HDMI, but as the BV7 has no HDMI inputs, I am not sure what to do! I did wonder if the best option would be the Beosystem 3 Mk2, as that has 2 DVI-I outputs and 4 HDMI inputs, but I am not sure if a Beosystem 3 and a Beovision 7 will play well together?  Would they both be trying to respond to the same Beo4 commands? Another option is to buy a better quality HDMI to DVI-I adapter, but one that also has audio connection, as I had forgotten - DVI-I doesn't carry audio! I also see that HDMI to YPBPR, and also HDMI to SCART adapters are available, but I am assuming they would not give me a 720p input. Any advice would be much appreciated.  The BV7 TV may be nearly 20 years old but it still looks great, and it would be a shame not to make good use of it.  

No t having any experience with the BS3 the biggest problem I see with combining the two devices is double commands. You might be able to avoid the double command by setting one of the devices in option 4 (Link + commands). If you do that for the BV7 you can turn it on with Link + PC command and control all sources from the BS3 with normal commands. To avoid Masterlink conflicts you should only connect one of the devices to ML unless you setup the BS3 as a link room.  

Also see this thread

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Thanks - yes I was thinking the same, I juts wondered if B&O would have thought of that, and made them able to recognise each other better. Does anyone have any advice of the alternatives to using a Beosystem 3 - using HDMI to DVI-I/YPBPR/SCART adapters?

https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/beocenter-6-with-beosystem-3-and-beocenter-2-how/where a similar setup was discussed. Especially the last post mentions that the Beolab 7.x speaker can be connected to the BS3 effectively just making the BV7 a screen if you do no need the built in sources

I've taken a look at that post, and yes, I do see an option:

• Beosystem 3 in Option 1
• Beosound 4 in Opt 2 (?)
• Beovision 7 in Opt 0

The reason I say BV7 in Opt 0 is that I have the ML Gateway, and should therefore be able set a macro that turns on the BV7 whenever I select a source on the BS3, and turns it off when I turn the BS3 off.  Might work, anyway! My only worry is that the DVI-I input socket on my BV7 might not be working - I have nothing else to test it with, but I suspect the problem I had was with he cheap HDMI to DVI-I adapter I bought from Amazon. Beosystem 3 Mk2 come up on eBay for anything between £100 to £500, so I'll keep my eye out for one at a reasonable price (£150ish seems about right). Edit: And I also believe the above configuration would require my Beolab Penta to be connected to the BC3, rather that to the BS4 as they are now.