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"tan guide" - kinda interesting
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:42 pm
by tin
Tripped across a thread on the old interactive tan guide still on a box in 2015, and apparently still working. A remnant of Prevue I guess!
https://community.shaw.ca/thread/31403
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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2018 8:06 pm
by thexkey
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Re: "tan guide" - kinda interesting
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 7:15 am
by tin
Yeah I know it was Prevue's (or the Prevue brand at least) attempt to enter the interactive guide market, but I don't think it lasted long - well as this post says it was retired in summer 2004 for Shaw cable at least.
Just interesting to see boxes with it still on in 2015 and that it still works!
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Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:57 pm
by thexkey
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Re: "tan guide" - kinda interesting
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 5:03 pm
by PajamaDarkness
thexkey wrote: ↑Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:57 pm
they should dump the guide software so we can emulate it
But how would we emulate that? MAME maybe?
Re: "tan guide" - kinda interesting
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:41 pm
by tin
haha yeah definitely an area I don't want to get into!
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:46 pm
by thexkey
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Re: "tan guide" - kinda interesting
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:40 pm
by kwest93
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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:36 am
by thexkey
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Re: "tan guide" - kinda interesting
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2018 4:56 pm
by PajamaDarkness
Here's another remnant of Prevue: The 1998 logo used on the more modern i-guide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhK7g9w32Bg
Here's another video of it from a how-to video, featuring the modern "Shaw" cable logo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiQ3LmuCnhA
And it looks like Shaw wasn't the only cable provider where the Prevue logo was in the same guide style,
Here's a PDF featuring some screenshots. From Eastlink.