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Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

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653 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 28 Jul 23 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.281s | source
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rkuykendall-com ◴[29 Jul 23 00:37 UTC] No.36915447[source]▶
HackerNews seems like the place to ask this:

There is something magical about switching to a channel mid-stream. The old joke about how you'll watch a movie from the half-way mark with commercials on TV even though the DVD is on the shelf. I think this is why pluto.tv is so popular.

I have a ton of video files but can't find any way to recreate this for myself. Why isn't there a project like Plex but for channels?

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xp84 ◴[29 Jul 23 01:18 UTC] No.36915733[source]▶
I’ve definitely read several write ups of delightful nerds who have set up in-house 24/7 channels sourcing from their libraries of content. A “Friends” channel, 90s toons channel, etc. I wish I could find you some links.
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1. JKCalhoun ◴[29 Jul 23 02:54 UTC] No.36916360[source]▶
I've got one of these projects. It's written in Python and buggy as hell (so I have kept the repo private until I have something others will enjoy).

The "schedule" is JSON, so it was easy enough to write a web page that parses today's schedule and presents it TV-Guide style: https://engineersneedart.com/UHF/

(Gaps in airtime are filled with shorts of various kinds.)