- Compaq Professional Workstation EW1006
- Intel Pentium II @ 440 MHz
- 262 MB RAM
- 30 GB SCSI HDD
- STB 1X0-0751-407 (Tulsa)
Hollywood was the last known iteration of the Prevue Channel software, developed as early as 1997 and continued as Prevue rebranded into the TV Guide Channel. Unlike the previous iteration, it was built for Windows NT, powered by SQL Server 7, and utilizing DirectDraw extensions via a proprietary video card developed in-house with STB Systems.
When it debuted on most cable systems, it initially carried a bubbly, rounded, Luna-esque visual style in tan, followed by various color and minor visual tweaks throughout the years, with the most recent being both a glossy, skeumorphic ("Frutiger Aero") design followed byh a dark, flat, monochromatic variation.
Alongside the main distribution of the software, a Software Only distribution was made available as a replacement for PC Prevue, not requiring the proprietary video card and receiving listings over FTP (as opposed to satellite.) In 2019, the satellite listings service provided by TV Guide was discontinued, putting an end to the Prevue Channel for most systems, leaving the Software Only revision as the only distribution seemingly still maintained via FTP.
Various Hollywood units have been acquired second hand since November 2020, with at least three being dumped and provided online. Most of them sport the later skeumorphic look of the guide with Pop branding and have cached listings from around the time they were decommissioned. The program has been tested to run in Software Only mode on Windows NT 4.0, 2000 and XP, alongside newer versions by upgrading the SQL Server version followed by upgrading the operating system.
