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i found out that if you do Curday.dat Capitalized it simulates the 1993 Guide!

and also they didn't lowercase until 1995.

I already knew that, but I never bothered to try it. Also, it appears to have been in early 1994 or so that the listings became mixed-case, Also, there is a (brief) video at YouTube of EPG Sr from 1995 that displays mixed-case listings.

woddfellow2 wrote:I already knew that, but I never bothered to try it. Also, it appears to have been in early 1994 or so that the listings became mixed-case, Also, there is a (brief) video at YouTube of EPG Sr from 1995 that displays mixed-case listings.

They must have waited until most cable systems were using the grid version to change the case of the listings. I noticed it as well. Funny though the movie listings stayed uppercase.

Looking back at some video, I noticed that first grid software, the movie summary only appeared in the gray section at the end of the listings blocks. I wonder how they were able to separate the title and the summary from each other?

Steven

nwgatwcfan wrote:[...]

[...] Funny though the movie listings stayed uppercase.

[...]

It appears that the film titles became mixed case sometime in 1997.

woddfellow2 wrote:

nwgatwcfan wrote:[...]

[...] Funny though the movie listings stayed uppercase.

[...]

It appears that the film titles became mixed case sometime in 1997.

then how come all of the guide is like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFrutiC26Js

Maybe editing the curday.dat will work like putting programs in capital while movies following the description is capital, the description is small and the minutes of the movie is like not (2 hrs 19 mins) but (2:19) in the dat file and the copyright notice is capital. I'll try to experiment it in my hex-editor.

kwest93 wrote:i found out that if you do Curday.dat Capitalized it simulates the 1993 Guide!

and also they didn't lowercase until 1995.

I'm confused. How exactly does this work? I may be misunderstanding you, but I read what you wrote as saying that if you name the file "Curday.dat" instead of "curday.dat", the listings will look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeolMiEP1Yk

No, he means that if the show titles are in all capitals (e.g., "SOME TYPE OF TELEVISION SHOW" instead of "Some Type of Television Show"), that it appears roughly as Prevue Channel did circa 1993.

woddfellow2 wrote:No, he means that if the show titles are in all capitals (e.g., "SOME TYPE OF TELEVISION SHOW" instead of "Some Type of Television Show"), that it appears roughly as Prevue Channel did circa 1993.

here's 1997.


here's 1993-94


this is what im talking about.

I do believe that mixed case began appearing in early 1994. This is from 3/25/94:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SkTfUvp63w

June 16, 1994

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwS0ahBbf4U

All videos 1994 and later on youtube appeared with mixed case. The following video is the latest shown occurence of the all-caps font from 1993:
Dec. 30, 1993

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXpwfNxf4yw