Prevue Guide in West Covina, CA (1991-1992)

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14 жыл бұрын

Another historical look at the famous Prevue Guide software seen on most American and Canadian cable systems between 1988 and the mid-1990s (before the "blue grid" version came about).
This video includes clips of the software being rebooted and having its local operator maintenance menus called up by someone at the cable company. The clips are from August 22 1991, November 26 1991, and January 15 1992.
Also included is also a (very) brief glimpse from October 13 1991 of the EPG Sr. (Prevue Guide's predecessor software) from a neighboring cable system, with its bottom crawl/ticker frozen up.
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@WeatherSTARIII 14 жыл бұрын

Cool videos! Back when the Prevue Channel was still around, I remember seeing a cable worker interupting the program guide scroll by doing some sort of maintance work. I once saw it happen one day back in 1993 (shortly after when the blue grid came out). I just wish I had tape of this.

@DanTheMan1985ful 9 жыл бұрын

I betcha anything those cable operators who had to work maintenance on the Commodore Amiga for Prevue Guide had to have been creepy for those guys listening to that music especially when it's distorted during the wee hours of the morning. That's the kind of music you'd hear right before any station leaves the air for the night. That used to creep me out growing up on UHF. It would make Jump if the Test Pattern pops up suddenly or a... LOOOOOOUUUUUUUDDDDDstatic snow screen would show once they turned off the transmitter...

@DanTheMan1985ful 9 жыл бұрын

Kinda creepy with no audio and hearing only that white noise in the background.

@ChristopherSobieniak 13 жыл бұрын

Like noticing a local ad used in 4:16, I can recall my cable company often producing custom ads and messages for Prevue Guide this way.

@whattheheck1000 13 жыл бұрын

Holy crap... I know people born on two of those four dates... I know a 11/26/91 and a 01/15/92... May 18, 2011 4:28 am

@rzsigray1 14 жыл бұрын

i wonder if i could run that on winuae i'd love to download that and play with the program

@Armando.Sepulveda 10 ай бұрын

This was long before the interactive guide you would get with DirecTV

@happyhappyfunball 14 жыл бұрын

@Urielbenavides - lol, actually the ones I have are messed up because they're what I found entertaining enough at the time to bother recording. There might be some "normal" footage in my VHS library, but I haven't found it yet. if I do find it, I'll post it. If I don't, then the four videos I've already posted will be all I'll be uploading.

@someperson42 13 жыл бұрын

At least the music is fine in this vid.

@ABCEasyas-- Жыл бұрын

I saw that this cable company replaced Prevue Guide eventually because of the incessant technical difficulties. Was there some other channel guide in its place?

@Urielbenavides 14 жыл бұрын

do you have some random clips like viewers choice ppv or sneak prevue clips on tape to upload?

@kargaroc386 13 жыл бұрын

And that's when I realized, after seeing all the graphical glitches, that the Prevue Guide software was a POS. Still very interesting stuff :)

@JasonDelarosa2000 3 жыл бұрын

KTLA began airing _Teen Dating Game_ with Melissa Joan Hart on weeknight early evenings during this time.

@ABCEasyas-- Жыл бұрын

I never heard of that before

@JasonDelarosa2000 Жыл бұрын

@@ABCEasyas-- Melissa Joan Hart was a Babe of the 90s; during this time she also starred on Nick's _Clarissa Explains it All_

@FairPlay137 9 жыл бұрын

The Blue Grid was also originally for the Amiga.

@SammyDarknessGaming 8 жыл бұрын

+DanielWS424 Both are. I still need to find a Prevue Guide (Not Blue Grid) floppy though

@FairPlay137 8 жыл бұрын

PajamaDarkness Network I'm well aware that both ran on Amigas.

@SammyDarknessGaming 8 жыл бұрын

they both run on amigas.

@Urielbenavides 14 жыл бұрын

do you have any prevue clips that are not messed up/normal form?

@DrayCrouse 6 жыл бұрын

There are ones that haven't started yet... But those are blank screens... And there are ones that are on the AmigaDOS Screen.