On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 07:02 PM, "Laurence TeknoLiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thinking about how to get my little TV into my Mac Classic (I was going to use my SE for the aquarium) I was also reading an advert from a local electronics goods shop where they showed off their budget DVD player...
Hmm, why not use the Classic for the aquarium and the SE for the Mac TV because...
...I could buy one of those DVD players and squeeze it into my spare SC20 box that goes with the SE...
How big do the "motherboards" tend to be for DVD players ?
The chassis on a typical DVD player is roughly 19" -- the same as hi-fi separates and VCRs (I won't mention Betamax here for obvious reasons...). Given that the mechanism for a DVD reader is about 5.25" wide, assume that the designers of consumer DVD players have used the rest of the 19" space freely. I'd be surprised if there was anything that absolutely required a 19" chassis but you may find that the LCD displays and associated circuits expect a lot of "free space" around them. They may be difficult to squeeze into 9.5" -- the usable space underneath a compact Mac.
Assume that the question is "possible" but that you may ned to disassemble a few DVD players before you find one that can be taken apart sufficiently to fit in the space below a compact Mac.
Phil
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