"tan guide" - kinda interesting

[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

[thexkey]

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[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!

[thexkey]

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[PajamaDarkness]

they should dump the guide software so we can emulate it

But how would we emulate that? MAME maybe?

[tin]

haha yeah definitely an area I don't want to get into!

[thexkey]

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[kwest93]

I have a video of it in action.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rTuAL81LSI

[thexkey]

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[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.