Uploaded January 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Part of a series on VHS Nostalgia.

The bumps back then were certainly become a little more conventional - the plugs for other premium channels (well, other than Starz) are gone, and hosted segments became more sporadic by this point (in the style of Turner Classic Movies). Yet this is still a generally attractive redesign, with a nicely redesigned logo and all-gold motif.

Included are the "next" and "tonight" menus, a few promos, two idents, and the movie open. Interestingly there were more than five versions created of the movie open - to go along with the varied ident applications - but the gold one seen here was used the vast majority of the time. The whole look was designed by TZ Design - the same people did the white BBC America rebrand of 2001.

All of the idents are for "The New Encore" in comparison to just the plain name. This was the name for the change in programming beginning in 1998, when Encore began showing more recent movies. The "Great Movie Every Night... Guaranteed" slogan was an actual guarantee. Coincidentally, when they redid the voiceovers later in the year and changed the new Encore into just "Encore", they dropped the guarantee completely.

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