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CLUSTER CABLE-STYLE-CHANNEL · 4 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-09-06

Retro TV channel simulators

This cluster consists of retro TV and cable-box simulators that turn a user's local video library into a scheduled, channel-guide viewing experience with CRT-style effects. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from -- it predates the index or its members are undated. Nostalgex leads on traction with 17 stars, ahead of tuner (1 star) and RerunTV (0 stars).

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 2OCT 2026: 1
AUG 2026OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 1 hand-coded · 2 unlabelled

Operator · 2 hobby · 1 indie · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 4 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Nostalgex17★22 daysliveindieRetro TV app that turns a personal movie and show library into a scheduled cable-style channel guide with live-style playback.
  2. 02tuner1★27 days—hand-codedhobbyDesktop app that turns a folder of video files into a simulated 90s cable TV experience with channel flipping, guides, and CRT effects.
  3. 03RerunTV0★8 daysliveai-builthobbyRetro cable-box simulator that plays a user's own media as TV channels with a program guide and CRT-style interface.
  4. 04RWND0★unknownliveAn application that plays videos in reverse for entertainment.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.