folkdeejay wrote:
Trip,
I just don't see that this deserves such vitriol.
If we accept the op at his word ( ie, it is for personal use at home ) the how is it different to several other mods I have read about on here - such as:
* Putting flat panels onto AVANT chasis - picture threads have been posted here more tha once, and loads of people praised the mod, which amounts to a non B&O panel purporting to be an AVANT update.
* B&O items refinished or recoloured to non standard versions....as these don't exist from DK, they must, at one level, be considered fakes, or forgeries. Orange Blab 2....white Blink1000, white Blab 4000 etc etc.
* Third party integration into beolink that is unbranded/uncredited...To the casual observer, they are just part of the B&O system.
In essence,tThe whole PUC system is a way of controlling (hidden) 3rd party items that seem to be B&O at a glance (a digibox slung behind a TV controlled by a Beo5/6) DK still produce inbuilt digital tuners for some markets/platforms but not others.... so is a pana screen driven by a BSys2 really that different to a Pana digibox supllying a BV xxx ...... not really.
Sticking a bezel on the front of a pana screen is a rebox - but then so are dvd1, dvd2, Beocordxxx and mx1500 etc etc. Plus - we all know that the early BV4 was nothing more than a pana with a
bezel, and a tiny tweak to the on/off control....only later panels have anything uniquely B&O about them.......so he isn't exactly
replacing a rolex with a chinese made electronic fake Rolix ..... he
will have what amounts to 95% of a BV4Mk1. A fake watch doesn't have ANYTHING sourced from the original maker.
So....give the guy a break....he just wants a panel that looks like a BV4, on the end of his (budget) B&O kit at home.
IF he sells it....different story.
Call it what you will, but I take it personally when someone wants to pass off an inferior product as something that I sell. There is a very clear difference between modding and replicating. If someone wants to put a flat panel TV on an Avant chassis, more power to them. It's probably a creative use of the Avant chassis. I also have no problem with his gold application to the Pentas. Those things are a matter of taste, if anything.
My problem is the clear desire to make his Panasonic into a BeoVision 4.
It's one thing, for example, to wear an Invicta watch that looks almost exactly like a Rolex GMT Master. I wouldn't do it (and I'd probably sue Invicta if I were Rolex), but fine. As soon as you put a Rolex logo on it, however, the line is crossed. It goes from an imitation to a forgery. That's not OK and I'm sorry to think that anyone who takes the time to turn that idea over in their head can come out thinking it is.
If he wants an aluminum frame, find a local metal worker. They're everywhere and probably hungry for work. Let him make something that's completely unique so that it's your creation and not a replica of something else. Pay homage to the BeoVision 4, but don't fake it.
