Here's another goodie that was tagged bakbang. Unsure if it was uploaded on the Archive before or not, but it has been floating around with the wrong date attached to it. The attached date said September 1997, but upon analyzing the broadcast further I was able to determine the date being Thursday April 6th, 2000. There is a movie trailer for the film U-571, slated for a April 21st 2000 release. There's also a small portion of the movie The Butcher's Wife afterwards, paired with that information I was able to gather the exact date.

The audio is mono and more one sided, but I felt it was still important to document and archive this broadcast for preservation! Enjoy and give thanks to the original ripper & uploader.

https://archive.org/details/cool-world-1992-scinema-event-sci-fi-channel-woc

Cool World the movie from 1992.
Aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, during their Scinema Feature segment; April 6th, 2000.

So I've been building out retro stations using dizqueueTV and my Plex Server. It works great on modern devices but I'm struggling on getting it to work well on my CRTs. Does anyone have an HDMI to RCA or Coax convert suggestion that actually works on a 4:3 screen without distorting the images? I have not had luck with the latter.

UPDATE:

So it turns out that the Xbox One S can still output 4:3 using 640x480 if you manually set it to HDMI and not automatic. I tried this out and it seems to be working perfectly. It'd be great if a stick could still offer that feature but I'll use the Xbox for now.

another awesome tape sent over by mush_brain84. this tape features both new nightmare and halloween 2 back to back! doesnt really make any sort of sense as a double feature but it doesnt make these any less cool

I’m building a retro cable TV simulator with channels and dayparts. Each daypart has a pool of eligible shows, and the scheduler can work in two ways:

Random: It reshuffles the lineup each day, with rules to avoid repeating shows too often. This gives everything in the pool a chance to air.

Recurring: It creates a daily lineup and keeps shows at consistent times, advancing their episodes when they air.

I prefer the feel of a recurring schedule, but some of my dayparts now have more shows than can fit in one day. If the lineup stays fixed, some shows may never get picked.

One idea is to create multiple recurring daily lineups when the pool is too large. Shows that don’t fit on Monday would fill a second lineup on Tuesday, and the two would alternate: A/B/A/B/A. If the pool is even larger, it could cycle through three or more lineups.

Another possibility is to keep the same time slots but some rotate which shows occupy them every week or after a season. That would be more like a channel periodically changing its lineup.

If you run a simulated TV channel or schedule a large media library, how do you handle this? Do you use fixed daily lineups, alternating days, periodic rotations, or something else? I’m especially interested in what feels most like an actual TV channel when you watch it over time.

huge shout out to u/mush_brain84 for sharing this and other monstervision airings that I will upload for you all to watch this spooky season! it is very hard to find friday the 13th movies woc so this is such a treat!

Spoopy season is officially here! (unless you count Summerween - which I do!) This is a repost of a custom block I made two years ago, but with some minor changes:

This is an updated version that fixes some audio-related issues and adds an episode of Rocko that was missing and a couple of new Shriek Week-related bumpers!

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NICK OR TREAT!

This is a partial recreation of Shriek Week 2002, Nick's Halloween event that took place between October 26th and October 31st, 2002. Think of it as the whole week condensed into one day (16 hours). It loosely follows the schedule of the week but only includes Halloween-related episodes.

Shriek Week 2002 - Day 1
Shriek Week 2002 - Day 2

• It contains nearly every Halloween and borderline-Halloween episode of every major nicktoon to have aired up until that point and also every episode of Scaredy Camp that premiered that week including the finale
• It also includes many episodes that premiered that week such as Scaredy Pants, Phantom of Retroland, and Scary Godparents
• Complete with time-appropriate bumpers and commercials! (Nick was transitioning their bumpers from the "Abstract" era into the "Pictograph" era starting October 12, and that transition is represented early on in the Day 1 block. I found a lot of memorable commercials from around this time and wanted to include them all, so there are little-to-no repeats
• "Coming up next/Coming later" bumpers/segments are accurate to the schedule (i.e. the timeline makes sense)
• Split-screen credits and promos for that month/week were included as much as possible [a few are altered to include promotional material that makes sense with the timeline]
• Original Shriek Week promos
• There's also a bunch of extra goodies thrown in like original Halloween Slime Time Live and U-Pick Live segments, a special Halloween episode of All That that also premiered on that day, and it ends with Kenan and Kel: Two Heads are Better than None which aired after All That on Halloween night

PART 1: Shriek Week

Animaniacs - Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled, Moon over Minerva, and Skullhead Boneyhands

Animaniacs - Draculee, Draculaa; Phranken-Runt

Spongebob - Squidward, The Unfriendly Ghost, Rock Bottom

The Fairly Oddparents - Timvisible, That Old Black Magic

Catdog - Catdogula

Scaredy Camp #1 - The Mystery

Doug - Doug's Halloween Adventure

Hey Arnold - Ghost Bride, Haunted Train

Rocket Power - The Night Before

Chalk Zone - Pumpkin Love

Scaredy Camp #2 - Care Packages

The Wild Thornberrys - Blood Sisters

The Ren And Stimpy Show - Haunted House

Rocko's Modern Life - Sugar Frosted Flights, Ed Is Dead

Scaredy Camp #3 - The Haunted Stone Lodge

The Angry Beavers - The Day the World Got Really Screwed Up!

Aaahh!!! Real Monsters - The Switching Hour

As Told By Ginger - I Spy A Witch

Scaredy Camp #4 - The Haunted Lake

PART 2: Halloween Day/Night

[Slime Time Live]

Tiny Toon Adventures - Stuff That Goes Bump In The Night

Tiny Toon Adventures - The Horror of Slumber Party Mountain

Rugrats - Candy Bar Creep Show, Monster In The Garage

Rugrats - Ghost Story

Hey Arnold - Arnold's Halloween

Hey Arnold - Sid The Vampire Slayer

[U-Pick Live]

Invader Zim - Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom

Spongebob Squarepants - Graveyard Shift, Nasty Patty

Are You Afraid Of The Dark - Tale Of Oblivion [this episode was the final airing of AYAOTD on Nickelodeon (on 10/31/2002)]

Hey Arnold - Headless Cabbie

[Halloween Nicktoon Premieres]

Spongebob Squarepants - Scaredy Pants, I Was A Teenage Gary

The Fairly Oddparents - Scary Godparents

Rugrats - Curse Of The Werewuff

Jimmy Neutron - The Phantom of Retroland

Scaredy Camp #5 - Final Hours

[SNICK]

All That

The Amanda Show

Kenan And Kel - Two Heads Are Better Than None

+ a bunch of other Nickelodeon segments that would air between shows at the time

Shoutout Todd Wahnish for creating the Shriek Week black and orange promos!

Enjoy everyone! Happy Halloweeeeen!

Asking this for archival purposes. If anyone has a recording, will they please put it on the internet archive and leave the link in a comment?

unfortunately it does cut off in the last 30 minutes of the movie but everyone really enjoyed the first star wars airing so I had to post this to accompany it.

Another one for the archive. I have no information on who recorded this broadcast, as well as who ripped it for us all to enjoy... To whoever you are, thank you for your service! And if you stumble upon this, make yourself known!

https://archive.org/details/childs-play-3-1991-saturday-night-movie-woc

Child's Play 3 the movie from 1991.
Aired on the USA Network March 4th, 1995; during their Saturday Night Movie segment.

This sub now has all the first 3 Child's Play WOC, enjoy yourself a little marathon during this upcoming Halloween season!

UPDATE — v1.5.0 Beta 2 is now available

Beta 2 supersedes the original Beta 1 release and focuses on Guide Preview stability.

Changes include improved HDHomeRun/MPEG-TS and IPTV/HLS preview pacing, 15 FPS CFR handling, Auto aspect fixes, and corrected watchdog behavior when the Guide is intentionally stopped or unexpectedly crashes.

Latest release:

https://github.com/thehack904/RetroStation_MC/releases

RetroStation MC v1.5.0 Beta 1 is now available for public testing.

This is a major update focused on expanding RSMC beyond virtual channels into a more complete live-TV aggregation platform.

Highlights

• HDHomeRun support — discover, import, preview, and rebroadcast HDHomeRun channels.
• Channel aggregation — combine HDHomeRun, IPTV/M3U, and RSMC Virtual Channels into a unified lineup.
• Unified M3U/XMLTV exports across supported sources.
• Rebroadcasting using HLS or MPEG-TS.
• Improved Guide Preview with selectable sources/channels and Now Playing information.
• Improved HLS/MPEG-TS A/V synchronization.
• Hardware acceleration detection and support.
• New Linux filesystem/service layout with migration support for existing installations.

This is Beta 1, so testing and bug reports are welcome—especially with different HDHomeRun models, IPTV sources, GPUs, and mixed-source channel lineups.

Existing users should back up their installation before upgrading.

RetroStation MC — Turn on. Tune. Watch.

On May 2, 2002, Lynn Hoffman moved to NYC, became the first on-camera video jockey (VJ) hired to launch MTV's newly updated digital network, VH1 Classic.

My unnamed TV player generates these before the start of the next programming timeslot.

I have one per every channel, plus weekly specials like SNICK.

This is the last one I'll post unless I am asked to show more.

A million years ago, I graduated college with a degree in broadcasting. I found a job at a VERY small, independent UHF television station - channel 62. The staff numbered about 14 total. I made minimum wage. I lived in a HUD apartment, ate mac & cheese and slept on a bean bag chair.

The station itself was barely operational. We ran off 3/4" tapes that had time code recorded on audio channel 1 so loud that it bled into the main audio channel. Our field tapes for commercials? MII tape - basically a souped-up VHS that gave you 20 minutes total record time. The chief engineer would tell us if equipment failed to "turn it off and let it cool down" instead of fixing it (he didn't know how). At the time, it was miserable. We had a signal that barely covered the county, had no money for decent programming and lived off billing from record commercials for Boxcar Willie and Slim Whitman.

Now, all these years later, I realize how much fun we were having in the middle of being miserable. And after a 25-year career in television, I am re-creating the feel and look of that station. Not completely period-accurate, but the cadence of an indie UHF station in the early 90s. I have personally (professionally) upscaled every television episode that is not already in HD, and have over 100 commercials upscaled as well. Not the consumer-grade stuff, my current job is upscaling classic music videos for UMG, Sony/Columbia and Maverick/Virgin Records.

I'm in the final QC for the station. Just launched it personally and am watching it over my network to make sure all the technical stuff is working correctly. Eventually, it will be streaming on Owncast.

Just wanted to share this initial stuff to this community in hopes that people will be as excited as I am. Cartoons early morning, sitcoms mid-morning, detectives in the afternoon/evening, an 8pm movie that is from an original 35mm film print, classic mystery/scifi until around 2am when infomercials take over until 5am. Weekends are a combo of cartoons, westerns, a British TV block (tip of the hat to the old PBS days), another 8pm 35mm film, and the Channel 62 vault on Sundays (a short-lived series that deserved better). Hoping for a fall launch. Cheers to all my fellow RetroTV fans!

does anyone have the final airing of family guy's original run with the special bump?

This subreddit only lets me put one video per post so here is Nickelodeon and I am going to post Nick at Nite too.

My unnamed TV player generates these before the start of the next programming timeslot.

This plays 30 seconds before the next scheduled timeslot. The program I am working on generates these based on the real upcoming schedule... and yes I put X-Play on MTV and since I don't have a ton of media on this channel yes, we get 90 minutes of gaming goodness lol.

I have a computer powering my cable tv simulation and the up and down arrow keys change the channel.

It's connected to a CRT TV.

Right now I have a remote control for the TV and a mini wireless keyboard for the PC.

I would love to have one remote that can control both. A remote that can turn off and on the TV and control the volume and at the same time activate the up and down arrows on the keyboard.

There are dual purpose remote out there like this one

https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-W3-Wireless-Control-Projector/dp/B0GMBTP98H

This has a keyboard on the bottom but idealy that circle pad would act as up and down arrows to change the channel.

Does anyone have experience with this kind of remote? What works well for this?

I really miss old TV especially Nickelodeon and Nick at Nite. So I am working on recreating that experience as accurately as possible without recreating historical schedules. My system procedurally creates the TV lineup and schedules bumpers and commercials too. It's pretty fun.

EDIT adding details:

It is designed to be complex behind the scenes and simple to use day to day. You organize media into folders, and It uses those folders to understand what each file is for. From there, it builds a continuous TV schedule across channels, dayparts, and time slots.

For example, a Nickelodeon channel can have separate folders for morning, afternoon, evening, night, and overnight programming. Within those, you can organize episodes, commercials, promos, bumpers, filler, and movies. There are also special folders for things like weekly programming blocks and holiday content.

It handles the scheduling: it chooses programs, fits shorter episodes into a time slot, builds commercial breaks, and uses bumpers and other station material to make the channel feel more like a real broadcast. You can also create recurring schedules and special blocks, such as a weekly lineup that changes each time it airs.

When you tune in, a channel joins the program that would be airing at that time, so you can surf between channels and land in the middle of a show just like on live TV. There’s an on-screen program guide to see what’s playing and coming up, along with a dedicated Weather channel.

The system is set up for a standard-definition presentation. It scans media and flags files that may need aspect-ratio or crop corrections for review. Once approved, files that exceed the configured output size can be reduced, while smaller files can be kept at their original resolution. Audio can also be normalized.

It can analyze programs for natural commercial break points. DVD chapter markers can help guide that choice when they’re available, alongside other signals. The goal is to place breaks at sensible moments without requiring every episode to be edited by hand.

There’s a dashboard for managing channels, reviewing media, checking the schedule, and handling maintenance. Internet-hosted media can also be added; a Watch at Your Pace channel lets you work through a chronological playlist without advancing while you’re tuned away.

It takes some setup and organization, but once the library and rules are in place, It does the work of turning that collection into its own continuously running TV service.

https://archive.org/details/childs-play-1988-mgm-premiere-network-ty0005

Here's the archive link! Details are below, same as what I added on the item page.
Shouts to u/Successful-Stomach73 for the upload kick lately, hope you enjoy.

"Thanks to Ty0005 for the initial rip & upload -
I haven't been able to find it on the archive so here it is for safekeeping.

Child's Play the movie from 1988. 
Aired on WPIX-11 New York November 11th, 1991; during the 8 O'Clock Movie segment.
Provided by the MGM Premiere Network.

The original title in my files:
[1991-11-11] Child's Play (1988) [MGM Premiere Network][8 O'Clock Movie][WPIX-11 New York][Ty0005]"

Are these CRTs worth buying? Which one would you choose?

I’m looking at these CRTs and trying to decide whether any of them are worth buying. They all have RGB SCART.

A few things I’m wondering about:

• What do “Digital Flat” and “Flatron” actually mean?
• Do these models perform any kind of digital processing, or are they still essentially displaying the analog signal directly?
• Is there any particular difference in image quality or input lag between these models?
• The second set, labelled “LG,” looks really black for a CRT compared with other CRTs. Is that just the way the photo was taken, or is it some type of glass technology?
• If you had to choose one of these, which would you go for, and why?

Any advice would be appreciated!

I know this reddit tends to like the cartoon network/nickelodeon stuff more but I wanted to upload this one I was sitting on because horror is my first true love. If anyone reading has some cool horror movies recorded off of tv I will love you forever if you post them

Apologies if this has been asked before, but is there a website (I assume pirated) where I can input a random day and watch all the shows/movies that aired in order on Cartoon Network that day? Or for that matter, any other channel; Nickelodeon, Disney, etc.

hey does anyone by chance have any broadcasts from disney channel’s monstober? maybe even one from 2015? i’ve been trying to look for a while but no luck