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MacTV

Should I mod it?

  • Yes!

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  • No! It's too rare, try to restore it to stock.

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  • Put it in a normal 5xx beige case for the rest of its life.

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defor

defor

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Finally grabbed myself a MacTV to disect and add to my collection of 5xx based systems, and wow is it unique in circuit design. Anyhow, there's a large chip missing from the drive bezel, and the rest of the case has wierd wear patterns (personally I didn't get it to collect), so the question I pose, as I do plan to keep it one way or another, try to restore it properly, or get gutsy and mod it into somehting far more glamorous?

 
What I would do, is try to find another one that doesn't run but has a nicer case. Until a nice original case comes along, though, I'd move the guts to an empty 5xx case if I had one laying around.

 
As I asked in the other topic on Mac TVs, is it possible to paint a normal AIO LC case black and use the nameplates and innards of the Mac TV to make a perfect replica, or are the two cases different in ways apart from colour? Either way, there's only a few thousand of these around so I wouldn't mess around with it too much!

 
well.. basically the case parts for the mactv are molded in black, not painted, for some reason mine has wierd lightish marks on it--- gave it a bath last night with heavy scrubbing and still cant get the majority off...

While I could move it to a 5xx case and paint it black, some issues liek the nameplate being part of the drive bezel which is missing a little corner make this a bad idea. right now, I'm contemplating looking into finding plastic finishing agents to fix the spotted marks which make no sense, then tracking down a front drive bezel in time to correct the crack.

I'd really love to find a second mactv motherboard though as well... have a really nifty project brewing around in the head and otherwise i'd have to swap this one back and forth between the mactv and the modded box...

good thoughts so far...

 
I tried to paint my Performa 575 black ---uuughh bad idea. It looked awful, so awful I didn't regret throwing it out (after removing the HD and mobo, of course).

 
Whoever votes Yes! or Put it in a normal 5xx beige case for the rest of its life. is going to get squashed by a Mac TV, by the looks of it. :)

 
You could also put it in a black 5500 or 5400 case. But, then again, you could always get a TV card for either of those machines and it'd be like a Mac TV, except 8 times faster ;)

 
Vinyl dye - it soaks into the plastic rather than sitting on the surface. And the nameplate should pop off if it's like the ones on other Macs - a pinhole through the bezel behind it, a pin, a push.

 
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