Beovision MX5000 marked a high-point in the development of the MX series of televisions. The MX5000 was a fully-fledged 66cm TV, housing everything that technology had to offer in the area of TV pictures and sound.

The television had a 66cm flat-square picture tube, together with automatic adjustment of the colour balance 50 times every second, so you always obtained a crystal clear picture in lifelike colours. The set could also cope easily with variable light conditions thanks to the built-in contrast screen.

Beovision MX5000 also offered a unique feature in operating comfort – a motorised swivel platform which was operated by the same Beolink 1000 remote control as the television. The whole set could be turned 35 degrees either side for better viewing. And when you turned off the set, it automatically returned to the centre position. This was the first Bang & Olufsen TV set to employ a motorised base/stand.

Beovision MX5000 was designed specially be use in conjunction with Beocord VX5000 video recorder when, together, you could pull in a live picture from another channel on the screen while you continued with the programme you were already watching. Very handy when you were waiting for a specific programme on another channel to start. Much the same could be done in later years with the advent of Picture-in-Picture – a module bought as an accessory for fitting into your television.

Like all of Bang & Olufsen’s TV range at the time that Beovision MX5000 was produced, you could also have a NICAM decoder installed for the reception of stereo TV broadcasts. It came prepared with a Teletext decoder fitted with the four most-used pages stored in memory so that you could call them onto the screen very quickly. The MX5000 also automatically chose the right Teletext alphabet when you switched to a foreign TV station.

Another feature was that of satellite broadcasts in that you could have a Beosat RX satellite receiver connected to the television in order to receive satellite television programmes. The Beosat RX unit fitted snugly under the set in much the same way as the Beocord VX5000 video recorder.

Beovision MX5000 won I.D. magazine’s I.D. Award for its design in 1990.

Beovision MX5000 US

Bang & Olufsen’s first television in the the US market was a variant, the MX 5000 US. But, because of sales factors and market conditions at the time, it was not a great success.