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AriX wrote:Yay, more videos!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICut5InOayA

Nice! A few new idents & promos I haven't seen before.

Yep, I remember that one as well! It had a different version of the "Prevue" ident from 1998 as well. Too bad, it cut off the "Prevue Online" promo at the end. I wish their was more of it. Therefore, I'm still looking for "Prevue Family", though. If only the video had started at 10:00 and was a little bit longer, than it would be perfect. Interesting, that the person who uploaded it, found it at "Goodwill". I wish my stores have rare tapes that carries a footage of "Prevue Channel" and "Sneak Prevue", along with "The Barker".

This is a long video because it is to big to download via a YouTube downloader.
BTW, here's the video menu from this link.

Recorded in: Charlotte, NC
DST: Yes
Timezone: EDT
Cable/Satellite: Time Warner Cable
Day: April 2, 1998 (look like seems one year before the hacking of the December 14, 1999 listings (which is April 1, 1999. When the TV Guide Channel was replaced))

00 sec (22:08:00 EDT) - "Event Horizon" PPV commercial.
32 sec (22:08:31 EDT) - Court TV's "Cochran and Company" commercial.
1 min 02 sec (22:09:02 EDT) - VH1 "Pop-Up Video" commercial.
1 min 33 sec (22:09:33 EDT) - Court TV's "Prime Time Justice" commercial.
2 mins 05 sec (22:10:04 EDT) - Nick at Nite's (which is still a Nickelodeon block) "Newhart" commercial.
2 mins 35 sec (22:10:35 EDT) - Prevue Ident (not the same music, which is posted by mcydodge919.)
3 mins 06 sec (22:11:06 EDT) - "Conspiracy Theory" PPV commercial.
3 mins 37 sec (22:11:37 EDT) - Next in Prevue Channel.
3 mins 53 sec (22:11:53 EDT) - FCNB (First Consumers National Bank) Secure & More MasterCard commercial.
4 mins 54 sec (22:12:54 EDT) - Crest Extra Whitening commercial.
5 mins 24 sec (22:13:24 EDT) - "Dear God" commercial for HBO.
5 mins 57 sec (22:13:57 EDT) - "The Game" PPV commercial.
6 mins 28 sec (22:14:28 EDT) - "Soul Food" PPV commercial.
6 mins 59 sec (22:14:59 EDT) - Grid guide and the Satellite Grid Guide goes down to Prevue Sports.
7 mins 00 sec (22:15:00 EDT) - Prevue Channel Ident (5 second ident)
7 mins 05 sec (22:15:05 EDT) - Prevue Sports Intro
7 mins 15 sec (22:15:15 EDT) - Prevue Sports
7 mins 48 sec (22:15:48 EDT) - Duncan Hines Chewy Fudge Brownies commercial.
8 mins 18 sec (22:16:18 EDT) - Back to Prevue Sports
8 mins 51 sec (22:16:51 EDT) - Prevue Sports close
9 mins 06 sec (22:17:06 EDT) - Grid guide and the Satellite Grid Guide goes up back for Prevue TV and adverts.
9 mins 07 sec (22:17:07 EDT) - BET's "Rap City" commercial.
9 mins 37 sec (22:17:37 EDT) - Need for Speed 3: Hot Pursuit commercial for the PlayStation.
9 mins 53 sec (22:17:53 EDT) - Scope Mouthwash commercial.
10 mins 38 sec (22:18:38 EDT) - Prevue Online (partial)

Matthew Joseph wrote:This is a long video because it is to big to download via a YouTube downloader.
BTW, here's the video menu from this link.

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Thank you very much for this extremely useful information. </sarcasm>

Matthew, I'm pretty sure you mean well, but this sort of information is not particularly helpful, and is more spam than anything. Please stop posting random, useless information. Thank you.

Another YouTube member is also posting some Prevue Guide videos. I'm told that it's only 4 parts, so far he's uploading the first two.

Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybx1HDMw6wk
and
Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI7wnd0W_gc

Both of them had some failure problems with the amiga. I even noticed the "Prevue Tonight" theme is very slow!

At about 3m22s into the video (Part 1), someone opens the menu and then selects Diagnostic Mode, where we see the select code XA22659.

woddfellow2 wrote:At about 3m22s into the video (Part 1), someone opens the menu and then selects Diagnostic Mode, where we see the select code XA22659.

Huh, that's very interesting. I really wonder how they assigned those...

Here's Part 3: This time is normal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-4W-pDZlm8
and Part 4: With Prevue Tonight included.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67xAn8eu-HQ

Good vids, I like new vids

Two observations:-

- the music is slower than I'm used to, how could that have happened?

- the disk between reboots is different %age full. Could it be that they were trying another disk - or maybe another Amiga?

tin, I agree. I like the new videos as well. It actually explains something that in another post (as detailed as it might have been), may have explained partially how the top half worked.

DId you happen to notice after the 2nd reset and the listings were popping in, the top half kept on hitting Pay-Per-View Movies? The system must be reading by channel number because Viewer's Choice (the Pay-per-view channel in this case) was on channel 1. It's odd that on the 4th video, all of the promos were Pay-Per-View. with the exception of Prevue Tonight.

Angie posted on a Prevue emulation thread of her theory on how the top half was selected (albeit in more detail than I probably would have given.) But what struck me was during the time that the promos were changing, the software would very quickly pull from channel list (Possibly the QTable or maybe even curday.dat) and compare the control data telling the system what two channels were appearing next in the top half. The software could have been designed to find the first channel that matched one of the two promos and then show the top half with that channel. I didn't think it was a possiblity, until I watched these last videos and then her explanation kind of made sense.

Do you think this might be right? We may want to compare some other videos and see if the same pattern occurs?

What do you all think?

Steven