DJ Saunders
United Artists Theatres Future of Entertainment Policy Trailer (1997)
updated
Also, to address a common complaint about my Prevue emulation videos, I've added music this time around through the magic of Avidemux.
Listings parsed from Gracenote's website through Zap2It-GuideScraping, then converted to SQL through @PajamaFrix's las-vegas (work-in-progress). The channel lineup used is for Xfinity in Philadelphia, PA. Emulation of TV Guide Channel's Hollywood software done in VMWare Workstation Player, and recorded in ShareX.
Post-processing done with NTSC-RS.
Software used:
- Paint.NET (for the images)
- After Effects 2022 (for the "animation")
- NTSC-RS (for post-processing)
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0:00 - Variant 1 (Multimedia Prog. Prods. - 1981-1983)
0:26 - Variant 2 (Multimedia Ent. - 1983-1994)
0:41 - Variant 3 (Black background variant)
Software used:
- Paint.NET (for thickening the Multimedia logo as found in Logopedia, as well as the gradient texture of the logo)
- After Effects CC 2019 (for the compositing of each logo animation)
- NTSC-RS (for the textual elements of the logos; also for post-processing of each logo)
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0:00 - Variant 1 (possibly early?)
0:10 - Variant 2
Software used:
- Paint.NET (for the entire remake of Variant 1, right down to the watermark and date; also for the still image of Variant 2, also down to the watermark)
- After Effects CC 2019 (for the "animation" of both variants)
- NTSC-RS (for post-processing)
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Software used:
- After Effects CC 2019 (for the entire remake; the trail at the beginning was made with Trapcode Particular)
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I've also added music so it won't be dead silence throughout. The music playlist playing throughout is "Great Ocean Road." @musicfromceefax was where I got it from, and that channel has plenty of Ceefax music playlists to check out.
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* Avidemux for achieving the overscan effect and for changing the audio track
* NTSC-RS for the VHS effect
Software used:
- After Effects 2023 (for the entire remake)
- NTSC-RS (for post-processing)
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Software used:
- Paint.NET (for the logo parts)
- After Effects 2019 (for the entire remake, including the city names at the end)
- NTSC-RS (for post-processing)
Marble background courtesy of Freepik.
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I shifted the pitch and slightly adjusted the speed in Adobe Audition to better match how the jingle sounded like on GMA itself upon signing on around this time.
As for why you're seeing the "tunestotube" watermark on my video, I figured this would be quicker and easier to use tunestotube for audio-only uploads as opposed to rendering a separate video with the audio and the image in editing software.
Here's why I added "2010s" to it... because it's a rare case of the Sony Pictures Television logo plastering the Sony Pictures Television logo. Full 16:9 picture being used when the episode itself was 4:3.
There was no need for this plaster, since you already have the SPT logo right there with its full theme playing. "Jeopardy!" has used the 3-second SPT logo with its respective theme before following the KingWorld logo, but not like this.
Based on an interesting idea that popped in my head while I was in the Prevue Guide Forums' Discord server.
The 2000 version of the TV Guide Channel Hollywood has been found, but there's no way to emulate it without special hardware (as in, software-only means PC Prevue). There was no SWO installation of Hollywood until late 2006, when PC Prevue was finally falling out of favor (the Latino version of TV Guide didn't switch to Hollywood until early 2007). So, if you can't emulate the 2000 version of Hollywood, why not make PC Prevue look as much like the 2000 version of Hollywood as possible?
This was the result of three weeks of hard work, which was split up into three stages: the rotoscoping, the fireworks themselves, and the logo at the end. The third part in particular required me to do a separate logo remake in between, just so I could implement that into the remake I started. With all the power required for such a remake, I had no choice but to use Adobe Media Encoder to render all of this. Using AE to render the remake by its lonesome wouldn't work, since the RAM would be depleted quickly.
Software used:
- After Effects 2019 (for the entire remake; Cinema 4D Lite was used for the 3D text, but that was within AE, not by itself)
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Original capture by Dburch01 on the Internet Archive.
And there may be no audio... but just imagine Jean-Michel Jarre's music playing over it.
Software: Deluxe Paint III on the Amiga (for the logo animation; yes, really), Paint.NET (for the text that appears in the stock footage part), and After Effects (for any additional editing)
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Also, I know there's no audio in this video... but just imagine it running concurrently with an stream of calm music from Stingray Music if this still existed in real life.
The unearthed print logo on which the "Orange Star" logo was supposedly entirely based on shows the all-caps "Distributed by" text, except it's in Windsor Bold, and the C's are serif (in Windsor Light). It also shows that there were two stars in the logo (one just outside the upper-right corner of the first "T", and another just outside the upper-left corner of the second "T"), not one, nor three. It was initially believed that it was real and represented an important step forward in one part of the search, but upon closer inspection, it was revealed that this print logo wasn't real after all, and has been taken down from the AVID Discord and (presumably) T.A.T. Logo Search Server. The details will be revealed in an upcoming video.
-- Software --
* Paint.NET for the TAT logo itself
* Adobe After Effects 2023 for the star animation
* NTSC-RS for the post-processing
Please, do not steal. If you want to use it, please credit me.
For version one of this remake: youtube.com/watch?v=MnWHHBixxyc
One "TVShow Lover (Year)" user posted the exact same combo at the end of August 2023, but it was from a Polish print, and the ACI logo faded out just as the animation began thanks to the Polish TV station that aired it.
This copy is different from the other, however... the audio's slightly muffled (advantage... former), but the picture and color quality are more vibrant, and it's in 60fps (already digitized and deinterlaced from an interlaced 30fps picture; none of that is my doing, but I did upscale it to 1080p by way of FFMPEG). Plus, two more seconds are shown for the ACI logo before it's cut off (this time, by a commercial for... contact lenses, I suppose?).
Credit goes to @SoraThePanFloof for the original AVID Discord post of said combo, which itself came from a digitized VHS tape.
Seen at the beginning of (presumably) later Kodak-branded VHS tapes from LK-Tel Video in Chile from 1987 until the switch to Sony video cassettes in 1988.
Credit goes to @archivosenvhs (through his Pelis en VHS Blogspot website) for the footage itself.
Audio enhanced by Adobe Audition.
This was presumably intended for use on Kodak's instructional VHS tapes, but as far as I know, there hasn't been any evidence of that in that area. However, it is seen at the beginning of LK-Tel Video's VHS tapes in Chile from 1987 until 1988 (when the company switched from Kodak video cassettes to Sony video cassettes). The early VHS releases on the Kodak video cassettes used the English version, while the other releases afterwards prior to the switch used the Spanish version of the logo after the warning screen. This is presumably from one of those early Chilean VHS tapes from LK-Tel.
Credit goes to @archivosenvhs (through his Pelis en VHS Blogspot website) for the footage itself.
Audio enhanced by Adobe Audition.
I've also made a version of it without the "Presents" tag at the end, and this will be part of an upcoming logo remake assemblage that I will compile (featuring all my completed logo remakes that I haven't posted on YouTube yet, which will include the two other finished remakes from two days ago).
Software: paint.net (for the JM logo), After Effects for the animation, and NTSC-RS for the VHS filter.
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Surf by MusicbyAden soundcloud.com/musicbyaden
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Retro Dream by Devyzed & Ghostrifter
soundcloud.com/devyzed bit.ly/ghostrifter-sc
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Elevate - Mehul Choudhary soundcloud.com/mehulchoudhary
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0:00 - Disclaimer
0:12 - Prevue Family
1:20 - Prevue Cinema
2:30 - Prevue Primetime Tonight (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)
3:51 - Prevue Showcase
Software: paint.net (for the frames), After Effects for the animation, and NTSC-RS for the VHS filter.
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Completed on: December 14, 2023 (Nine months to the day this was made!)
This logo remake is not mine, but rather that of Ahmad Nasser (who has, if I remember correctly, left the logo community). Credit goes to him, first and foremost. He made a remake of the 1989 HIT Communications PLC logo that ultimately went unfinished. I won't tell you where I got the file, but I will tell you that I discovered he had the basics right there, but some stuff needed to be modified to make it closer to the original.
Thus, I animated the lasers coming in where they were originally already there, I altered the animation of the axis parenting both the disc and the lasers (it originally went one full rotation too many), I animated the lights on the HIT model, and I animated the "Communications PLC" text.
I also used @aldrinejoseph2512's disc, since with a few color modifications, it looked closer to the original, and I added a light falloff so the intensity of the lasers emit a small glow on the disc, just like in the original. I also animated the beginning animation on the disc, if doing one rotation on the disc in Blender and repeating that part twice in After Effects counts as such.
And there it is... a once unfinished remake has now been finished, exactly nine months to the day this was first made (in March).
Again, credit to Ahmad Nasser for the remake and Aldrine Joseph for the disc.
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Now for a bit of background: This obscure music channel, which shares no relation with the more recognizable Discovery Channel, was marketed as an alternative to the big music network and was pegged for a late 1984 launch. However, it ultimately never got off the ground because of complications with the major labels, three of which had signed exclusivity deals with MTV, and the paltry cable and TV station distribution that Discovery Music Network would've gotten.
Yesterday, I demonstrated the service and the many pages it has to offer via BeebEm, the BBC Micro emulator, and this was done by way of Peter Kwan's vbit2 and ZXGuesser's teletext packet server. It's worth noting that BeebEm is not capable of displaying Level 2 or 2.5 teletext pages, so keep that in mind.
Note that the VHS effect was made using NTSC-RS, a Rust port of ntscQT.
(It would've been so awesome back then for teletext to catch on in the United States...)
--- A LITTLE BIT ABOUT CEEFAX --
Launching on the 23rd of September 1974, BBC's Ceefax (a play on "see facts") was the world's first teletext information service. Ceefax ran for 38 years before shutting down for good on the 23rd of October 2012, coinciding with the completion of the digital switchover in Northern Ireland.
At the time of its launch, Ceefax was cutting-edge. The service had several hundred pages at the user's disposal, and were available to those with televisions that were capable of displaying teletext (although the users had to wait patiently for the page to come up). It is, in many respects, considered the precursor to the Internet.
The most recognizable element, however, was "Pages from Ceefax," an in-vision sequence of a selection of pages from Ceefax that was normally shown in the absence of any other programming. These transmissions began in March 1980 and was initially referred to as "Ceefax In-Vision" before changing to the more recognizable name around January 1984. They were shown on BBC One until 9th November 1997 and on BBC Two until 22nd October 2012.
Since its shutdown, efforts have been made to revive Ceefax for the modern age, including Peter Kwan's Teefax and Nathan Dane's recreation of Ceefax.
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And a personal update: if you're expecting me to do logo-related content, here's the bad news. I'm significantly cutting back on those from now on. I'll still do logo remakes, but on occasion. On the other hand, no more logo histories for me since this has been putting a strain on both my personal being and my YouTube channel in the long run (several missed dates, the expectation of needing to upload a video every week when I haven't marched that beat for a while before then, and so on). The Prevue videos are going to make up much of my channel's output in the months that follow, since they're what led to me starting my YouTube channel in the first place.
Thanks to @TheRolyPoly for suggesting the city to me.
Awesome fireworks show. Just had to get as good of a viewing angle to capture the really spectacular fireworks without most of the view obscured. Yes, I was in the convertible the whole time.
Enjoy!
Only fitting and proper that I post something Prevue-related to celebrate, and it's on the 4th of July, America's birthday!
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Creamy by Limujii soundcloud.com/limujii
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Odyssey's End by Jonas Fill soundcloud.com/jayhifive
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White Flower by tubebackr soundcloud.com/tubebackr
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Trust Me (instrumental) by RYYZN soundcloud.com/ryyzn
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0:00 - Prevue Family
1:08 - Prevue Cinema
2:18 - Prevue Primetime Tonight (Hartford/New Haven, CT)
3:39 - Prevue Showcase
Software: paint.net (for the image itself) and After Effects for the logo animation.
0:00 - Intro
0:07 - Main Logo
0:17 - Short Version
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0:00 - Intro
0:07 - Central
0:16 - IBA (UK)
0:25 - BBC (1988)
0:33 - Granada Television
0:43 - Outro
Listings parsed from zap2it through mc2xml, then edited and fed to emulation through PrevueCLI. The channel lineup used is for Astound Broadband (RCN) in Boston, MA (home of the Boston Bruins). Emulation of version 7.8.3 of the Amiga software done in WinUAE and recorded in OBS Studio.
Thanks to @TheRolyPoly for requesting me to do the listings for the specific city.
Thanks to Finn TV for requesting me to do the listings for the specific provider in the specific city.
Channel Link, because YouTube's very selective on identifying users in the description for reasons I still can't understand: youtube.com/@finntv9380
Once again, the combo seen on original Family Channel airings is surprisingly left intact, despite this being a Peter Rodgers Organization print. This itself is actually an international copy, hence the New World International logo at the end.
This is from season 1, episode 18 of the 1990 version of "Zorro." Now this is a Peter Rodgers Organization print, so normally, this is when the Zorro Prods./PRO combo would appear, but the combo seen here (from the original Family Channel airings) was surprisingly left intact. This itself is actually an international copy of said episode, which explains why the New World International logo appeared at the very end.
Through screen-recording my iPhone's home screen and having the DVR recording playing in the background, I finally have a clean copy of the extended Starz "Next on" music, part of the music that was introduced in the September 2022 rebrand. This is known officially as the "Starts in" music, and is currently heard on MoviePlex, RetroPlex, and IndiePlex in between movies.
I've just been made aware that @RoadLeaks managed to get a longer cut of the extended music in his video than I did with my capture, but nonetheless, this is my attempt at making this music loopable with what I have. Enjoy!
Software: paint.net (for the Lorimar logo and "Home Video" text) and After Effects for the logo animation.
0:00 - Intro
0:07 - Main Logo
0:33 - Intermission
0:59 - Alternative Version (with apologies to Keon Aureii)
(EDIT: 12/8/2024) Please, do not steal.
Thanks to Andy39 for requesting me to do the listings for that city.
Listings parsed from zap2it through mc2xml, then edited and fed to emulation through PrevueCLI. The channel lineup used is for Shaw Cable in Victoria, BC. Emulation of PC Prevue done in DOSBox and recorded in OBS Studio.
Thanks to @KMFStudiosNetwork / WHSTChannel14Rises IWWT for requesting me to do the listings for the specific provider in the specific city.
(Part 1 requested by @americanshadow95 and @RoadLeaks)
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This episode is special. It's not because Valentine's Day is just around the corner as of the date of this upload (Like the pink coloring on the graphics?), but rather because it is the first-ever double feature installment in this series.
Here, we will look at the Feature Presentation intros from MGM Plus (formerly Epix) and Showtime (soon to be Paramount Plus with Showtime).
All credits go to the uploaders of the videos featured in the episode.
Oh, and another thing: DON'T STEAL.
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This Feeling - Atch soundcloud.com/atch-music
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0:00 - Intro
0:08 - MGM Plus Feature Presentation Intros
0:58 - Showtime Feature Presentation Intros
13:05 - Outro
Thanks to Andy69 for requesting me to do the listings for said city and on the specific day in the Prevue Discord.
One more thing... after multiple sessions of tinkering and frustration while using AviSynth Plus, I finally got DotCrawlPlusPlus (RGM's modernization of DotCrawlPlus) to work. It's not entirely going to replace NTSCqt as my go-to for post-processing, but I'll definitely use it more often, since it - through the standalone use of FFmpeg - renders the video with the same true-to-life analog artifact emulation that NTSCqt provides at a fraction of the file size and a fraction of the time. This also means no more waiting for a few days just for one video to finish rendering before I upload it.
This includes a new graphical look for Prevue Primetime Tonight (to match the PC Prevue wallpaper), and as advertised, a new segment replacing Prevue Sports. This segment is called Prevue Showcase, and it takes a look at the three programs for the night that should definitely be worth watching for the TV viewer.
You're seeing Prevue Showcase twice because the February installment of Prevue Cinema is not ready yet. The only way this will be made is when the list of must-see movies that are streaming for the month have been released.
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Alter by Hunter Milo soundcloud.com/huntermilo
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Sheherazade by VDGL soundcloud.com/musicforall-61338549
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ZAYFALL - The Origins (Official Music) by ZAYFALL soundcloud.com/zayfallmusic
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0:00 - Prevue Family
1:08 - Prevue Showcase
2:18 - Prevue Primetime Tonight (Miami, FL)
3:39 - Prevue Showcase (repeat)
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In the updated version of this episode, we take a look at the feature presentation intros for DirecTV Cinema. This episode will also look at the FP intros used by DirecTV Pay-Per-View (which still exists, but has now only focused on special events since the launch of the movie-centric DirecTV Cinema in 2009) and its predecessors.
All credits go to the uploaders of the videos featured in this episode
(Editing completed on January 29, 2023)
Oh, and another thing: DON'T STEAL.
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This Feeling - Atch soundcloud.com/atch-music
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0:00 - Intro
0:08 - Direct Ticket
0:41 - Blockbuster Ticket
1:06 - Blockbuster Pay-Per-View Movies
1:31 - DirecTV Pay-Per-View
2:35 - DirecTV Cinema
3:06 - Outro
Listings parsed from zap2it through mc2xml, then edited and fed to emulation through PrevueCLI. The channel lineup used is for Breezeline in Miami, FL. Emulation of version 7.8.3 (in grid mode) done in WinUAE and recorded in OBS Studio.
Thanks to @TheRolyPoly for requesting me to do the listings for Miami in the Prevue Discord.
From a 1987 Produce, S.A. demo reel, as originally posted in the Internet Archive by Laboratorio Experimental de Cine. There are several other finds in this reel that are equally fascinating, so this won't be the only one.
...I just had to re-upload it for preservation purposes.
* - not counting privated and unlisted videos
Listings parsed from zap2it through mc2xml, then edited and fed to emulation through PrevueCLI. The channel lineup used is for Xfinity in Highland Park, IL. Emulation of PC Prevue done in DOSBox and recorded in OBS Studio.
Thanks to Gage M. for requesting the specific provider and city in the Prevue Discord.
Note that the speed of the button presses do not actually appear that way in real time; when the video was originally recording, the game was struggling to catch up, but my keyboard button presses still registered as normal. Now, with the game in its intended speed after converting the rendered video from MKV to MP4, the button presses are faster.
Footage recorded in RetroArch with the Genesis Plus GX Wide core.
The difference between both versions: Text mode boasts a large dictionary, whereas graphics mode only has a small dictionary.
Footage recorded in BeebEm.


