With it now almost certain that Maige TV is dead and buried, I am wondering if any bright spark on TV (and there are quite a few) can come up with any ideas on how to convert the Maige box to operate another system such as IlikeHD as an example.

Been wondering the same myself

If you open it and take some good quality photos of the insides ( main circuit board)  that will give everyone a clue as to what CPU etc is

if it has some removable storage card to run the operating system  take it out and copy it ( probably linux based  use DD very carefuly)

there maybe ways to reflash the  box to use something like kodi  or some hacking around with the existing setup to enable other IPTV streams to be used...but first photos.

thanks for the reply

attached a picture of the internals, managed to remove the heat sink and the cpu is a hi3716

A quick Google suggests that the cpu is an ARM processor and that poeple have got Kodi running on it.The firmware can be updated via a usb flash drive
but you need to be very sure the
firmware is correct before updating it...or you'll end up with a "brick"

It looks like one of the chips has had its identification markings sanded off sometimes they do that because its an easy chip to read and get the contents from if you knew what chip it was and sometimes its a custom chip with proprietary contents
as there is no sd card slot I suspect the sanded chip is an eeprom that contains the operating system
more Googling required.

thanks for your time and input johng

 

i managed to take a picture of the larger chip and the two medium sized chips which are the same perhaps this will help

the Samsung   K4T1G164QF  chip is  1Gb ddr 2 sdram

I haven't found out what the other chip  U2 is

 

as far a I can work out ( guess)   the box seems to be a himedia Q5  ( first version ?? ) yours doesn't seem to have the SDcard reader

http://freaktab.com/forum/tv-player-support/other-tv-players/3996-himedia-q5-android-media-player-review

 

 

http://www.himediatech.com/support.htm

 

you might want to take a chance and try updating the firmware  its very risky though could totally break the thing .

 

also maybe post a photo of the outside box/case  might give some more clues.