By: Erin
Posted: March 8th, 2026
Twin Peaks Day has come and gone, which means so has EMN’s sixth anniversary! Six years! Unbelievable. I always wanted to believe that we’d stick with our little TV channel, but you never know what the future holds. It turns out that the future holds website updates, articles, and a whopping seven channels with multiple programming lineups running in our home. Who knew?
I really wanted to get some cool things done for the six year anniversary. There have been multiple articles I’ve been working on, including one I started over a year ago, and I’ve been trying to figure out what a proverbial “next step” for EMN could look like. As it stands, our main units either use PseudoTV or pure marathon-style code depending on the unit, and I’m happy with those, but I’m always looking at what else is out there. It’s pretty funny, because in the time since Mandy and I got EMN1 up-and-running using Probnot’s simple video script method, tons of people have made their own ways of running TV boxes to simulate having a channel to turn on. The people crave the old days of analogue television and are sick of picking what to watch! And, obviously, people, I’m on your side.
I could use this post to wax philosophical about EMN’s ethos, about Tunarr and ErsatzTV and NostalgiaTV and FieldStation 42 and all these other projects out there, but I won’t. Those projects have their audience, and I absolutely love that this little niche desire of mine and Mandy’s has since become a community of people giving those who are a little more sane than us and don’t want to be beholden to ancient tech a way to experience the joys of their own custom TV channel. Instead, let’s look at what we have done for EMN’s anniversary this year.
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