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A theme re-skins the program guide, the on-screen banners and the setup screen. Each one is a bundled plugin; pick one in Setup > GUIDE & THEME. Themes marked + border also draw a decorative frame around the picture.
| Theme | Look |
|---|---|
| 80s Neon Cyberpunk (Synthwave Pink/Cyan) | electric magenta, neon cyan, hot violet and gold synthwave palette. (+ border) |
| 80s Radical VHS (Hot Coral & Purple) | hot coral, electric yellow and deep violet arcade-cassette palette. (+ border) |
| 90s Cyber Terminal (Matrix Phosphor Green) | phosphor green, laser lime and dark obsidian cyber-terminal palette. (+ border) |
| Addressable Converter '89 | late-1980s addressable converter with red LED digits, amber prompts, and a compact black-plastic guide. |
| Analog Barker (Early 90s Amber) | early-90s analog character-generator look — black background, amber phosphor accent, hard-cut flat panels. (+ border) |
| Aqua Grid '06 | mid-2000s cable UI with cyan chrome, pale channel rails, dense ruled listings, and lime selection. |
| Cable Box OSD (Analog Teletext) | a literal early-90s analog cable box on-screen menu — blocky type, saturated primaries, chunky beveled 3D buttons instead of flat modern ones. |
| Cloud Guide '16 | modern cloud-era cable UI with dark content cards, blue interaction, spacious focus targets, and restrained motion. |
| Cobalt Grid '03 | early-2000s deep navy guide with amber-yellow selection, aqua channel rails, and remote-color-button hints. |
| Dark Grid '12 | compact black-and-blue cable guide with thin rules, high information density, cyan focus, and restrained chrome. |
| Digital Satellite (2001 Ice Blue) | 2001 digital satellite receiver look — ice blue & white, crisp and geometric, a signal-lock-searching acquire animation instead of static, digital chirp SFX, a faint 9.2kHz carrier hum. (+ border) |
| Dual-Tuner DVR '05 | early DVR interface with midnight blue panels, silver rails, yellow focus, and live guide preview. |
| Frutiger Aero (Glossy 2000s Optimism) | the glossy, optimistic mid-2000s 'tech is wonderful' look — translucent glass surfaces, soft sky-blue/aqua gradients, rounded corners, metallic highlights. |
| Hotel Headend '92 | early-1990s hospitality cable guide with institutional teal, warm ivory, and oversized remote focus. |
| Late-Night UHF (1988 Magenta & Cyan) | 1988 late-night public-access UHF — hot magenta & cyan, a full teletext-style guide re-skin, gritty FM-warble tuning noise, a curved/warped picture even before touching the curvature slider. (+ border) |
| Master Control (Amber Broadcast Console) | a real broadcast engineering rack — amber phosphor on graphite, hairline dividers, flat panels, everything labeled like equipment. |
| Midnight Luxury (OLED Indigo & Glass) | deepest obsidian, electric indigo and rose glassmorphism palette. (+ border) |
| Neo-Brutalist (Raw Console) | the most direct answer to a generic-AI-app look — zero border radius, thick black borders, flat acid-yellow/hot-pink blocks, no gradients, raw hand-built type. |
| Network Prime Time (1996 Cream & Brick) | 1996 glossy network broadcast look — cream & brick-red, larger corner radii box-wide, quiet low-opacity tuning blip instead of full static, clean musical chime SFX. (+ border) |
| Ops Dashboard (Broadcast Automation) | modern, but grounded in real broadcast-automation software (Wide Orbit, Ross) instead of generic app defaults — condensed headline type, on-air red reserved for live/critical state, cool blue for… |
| Outrun Synthwave (Sincere 80s Neon) | sincere 80s retro-futurism (not the ironic vaporwave collage) — magenta, cyan and violet neon glow on near-black, played straight. |
| Scrolling Guide '94 | early interactive scrolling guide with royal blue and amber-yellow, flat panels, sharp corners, and analog signal texture. |
| Slate Grid '10 | late-2000s cable guide with metallic slate panels, electric-blue cells, yellow focus, and compact menu typography. |
| Widescreen Grid '13 | early HD cable guide with a left live preview, rich blue program grid, yellow focus bar, and remote-color footer cues. |
| Wood-Grain Console (1978 Forest & Brass) | pre-cable 1978 wood-console TV — forest green & brass palette, mechanical relay sounds, rolling static, no rating bug (predates TV parental guidelines). (+ border) |
An era applies a whole period look at once (theme, CRT settings and the matching on-screen style) and remembers what it replaced, so you can clear it and get your own settings back exactly. The built-in eras are:
- 1970s — Wood console
- 1980s — VHS and UHF
- 1994 — Analog cable
- 2000s — Digital satellite
- 2016 — Flat and digital
Pick an era in setup, or from the TV menu on a TV.
Themes change colors and layout, not the flicker. If flicker or static is a problem, see Comfort and Photosensitivity.
See also Manual: Picture, Sound, Guide and Theme.
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