#FLIPCLOCK MAC TV#

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#FLIPCLOCK MAC TV#

In his ’70s-themed display wall, this TV set looks perfectly natural.

There are plenty of other fine details in this build, including audio integration, adding modern video and audio inputs like HDMI, and adding LEDs to backlight the original (and now working) UHF and VHF channel indicators. This meant using plenty of rotary encoders and programming a microcontroller to do the translating. To start, ordered a LCD with controls (and a remote) that would nearly fit the existing bezel, and then set about integrating the modern controls with the old analog dials on the TV.

The original flyback transformer on this TV was the original cause for the failure of this machine, and getting a new one would require essentially destroying a working set, so this was a perfect candidate for a resto-mod without upsetting any purists. To keep an antique running often requires plenty of spare parts, or in the case of ’s vintage ’70s Sony television set, plenty of modern technology made to look like it belongs in a machine from half a century ago.

Most of us have experienced capacitor plague, disintegrating wire insulation, planned obsolescence, or even the original company failing and not offering parts or service anymore. Keeping older technology working becomes exponentially difficult with age.