Preview may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Film and television
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Preview (subscription service)
Preview was an American pay television, subscription television service that launched in 1980. Like its competitors, such as ONTV (pay TV), ONTV and SelecTV (US TV channel), SelecTV, Preview was a scrambled UHF subscription channel requiring a sp ...
, in the United States 1980–1986
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Test screening
A test screening, or test audience, is a preview screening of a film or television series before its general release to gauge audience reaction. Preview audiences are selected from a cross-section of the population and are usually asked to complet ...
, a showing of a film or TV show before general release in order to gauge audience reaction
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Film screening
A film screening is the displaying of a motion picture or film, generally referring to a special showing as part of a film's production and release cycle. To show the film to best advantage, special screenings may take place in plush, low seat-cou ...
, a special showing as part of a film's production and release cycle
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Trailer (promotion)
A trailer (also known as a preview, coming attraction, or attraction video) is a short advertisement, originally designed for a feature film, which highlights key scenes of upcoming features intended to be exhibited in the future at a movie thea ...
or preview, an advertisement for a future film
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"Previews" (''Smash''), a 2012 TV episode
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Un Preview" ('A Preview'), a 2023 song by Bad Bunny
Music
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''Preview'' (EP), by Kym Campbell, 2010
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''The Preview'' (EP), by Chiddy Bang, 2010
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DJ Drama Presents: The Preview'', a 2008 mixtape by Ludacris and DJ Drama
* "Preview", the unlisted final track on Built to Spill's 1994 album ''
There's Nothing Wrong with Love
''There's Nothing Wrong with Love'' is the second studio album released by American indie rock band Built to Spill. ''There's Nothing Wrong with Love'' was recorded in May and June 1994, and released September 13, 1994, on the Up Records
Up R ...
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Theatre
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Preview (theatre) Previews are a set of public performances of a Theatre, theatrical presentation that precede its Premiere, official opening, known as the press night. The purpose of previews is to allow the Theatre director, director and Stagehand, crew to identify ...
, a public performance of a theatrical show before the official opening
Computing
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Preview (computing)
Preview is a computing function to display a document, page, or film before it is produced in its final form. In the case of printed material this is known as "print preview".
Content preview
Previewing allows users to see the current stage of ...
, a computing function to display something before it is produced in final form
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Preview (macOS), the built-in image viewer and PDF viewer of the macOS operating system
* Preview in the
software release life cycle
The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists of several stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the fi ...
See also
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Foresight (disambiguation)
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Precognition
Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.
There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a ...
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