Comments on: The Bose® Lifestyle VS-2 Video Enhancer® is A Must for All Lifestyle Owners

By: Your Electronic Warehouse

Your Electronic Warehouse — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:00:29 +0000

Reyes,
The Lifestyle 48’s media center does not support the Blu-ray format discs. You will need a stand alone Blu-ray player for them. The VS-2 however will help you get the best picture quality through your Bose Lifestyle system with the added HDMI connection.

By: reyes

reyes — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:24:01 +0000

I HAVE A LIFESTYLE 48 SYSTEM. CAN I PLAY BLUE RAY DVD WITH THE VS-2, OR DO I NEED TO BUY A BLUE RAY DVD PLAYER?

By: Your Electronic Warehouse

Your Electronic Warehouse — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:16:49 +0000

Jonny,
There could be two different reasons you are getting a bad picture. You could have a faulty X-Box, faulty HDMI cable, or you may not be in High Def. On the Xbox-360 menu there is a place to change the video resolution, you are probably in 480i or 480p which are not high def. Change the resolution to 720p or 1080i, this will greatly improve your picture. More than likely this is your problem. If this is not your problem, try testing another HDMI cable and if that doesn’t work, I would call microsoft.

I know exactly what your sound problem is. The VS-2 does not repeat HDMI audio, I looked at the cables that come with the Xbox-360 Elite and one of them is a dangle cord that allows for a separate audio source when the HDMI cable is plugged in. Use the optical (best option) or analog audio connection for your audio. If you use optical (which I recommend because it will give you Dolby Digital 5.1) you need to assign the optical port on your lifestyle to the CBL/SAT that you have your X-box plugged into. To do this, go into the system menu, find optical source, and switch to CBL/SAT. You can then plug an optical cable into the media center input and it will give you sound while your HDMI cable gives you video.

If you need an optical audio cable, here is a link to our optical cables page.

By: jonny

jonny — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:57:31 +0000

I have a lifestyle system 48 with the vs-2 , everything connected properly. My issue is the xbox 360 elite. I connected it using its hdmi cable to the vs-2 cbl/sat input and get an ugly picture and no sound. The xbox 360 elite only has an hdmi output. Can you help me with this problem?

By: Your Electronic Warehouse

Your Electronic Warehouse — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:08:50 +0000

Hamza,
There could be a number of problems occurring that do not necessarily have to do with the VS-2 itself. You should call Bose Technical Support at 1-800-905-2138, they can walk you through the install process and make your system work correctly together.

By: Hamza

Hamza — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:16:15 +0000

Hi,

I just installed the Bose Lifestyle 38 with a VS-2 enhancer. I made all the connections and, initially, I didn’t get any image on my Samsung 46″ 1080p Full HD Screen, as the message I got on my TV says that the Media is not recognized or something like that. Anyhow, I removed the Output HDMI cable from the VS-2 plugged it in again and made sure all HDMI cables are inserted properly and it worked, however, I could not get a full screen image on my tv set. I tried adjusting the TV’s setting but with no use. When I tried adhusting the lifestyles setting, however, the screen went blank and it never came back with the same message that I got the first time…!!! Additonally, I connected the lifestyle to the TV because I had to change some audio settings via the normal cable and it worked fine. Right now, I have connected the video from my components to my TV directly, but I would certainly want to use the VS-2 instead.

Please Help..!!!

By: Your Electronic Warehouse

Your Electronic Warehouse — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:18:46 +0000

Bhaskar,
The box you received the product in was probably not the VS-2 box because there isn’t a particular VS-2 that works with each series, there is only one VS-2 that is universal for all Lifestyle Systems able to use the VS-2.The only thing I can tell you to do is call Bose product information at 1-800-999-2673.

By: Bhaskar

Bhaskar — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:02:56 +0000

Regarding #78, I don’t have setup disc for VS-2.I bought it from ebay and it seems like the box was for 38 series. So now where can I get setup disc for VS-2.

By: Your Electronic Warehouse

Your Electronic Warehouse — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:11:21 +0000

Bhaskar,
I am sure you have done this already but just to be sure this is not your problem, have you run the setup disc for the VS-2? You have to do this in order for the VS-2 to function properly. If you have done this and nothing else is working, call Bose tech support at 1-800-905-2138 they will help talk you through your problem.

By: Bhaskar

Bhaskar — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:23:03 +0000

Thanks for the reply for #73. For media center it is connected to VS-2 through composite and S-video so it should show out put. when I try to plug composite without VS-2 it works but when i connect media center with VS-2 with all shown connections for serial data/DC power/composite/s-video i don’t get any video output on TV.
Do I need a software upgrade CD for my media center(18 series II). where can i get that.