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Theatre, film, television

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Preview (subscription service) Preview was an American subscription television service that launched in 1980. Like its competitors, such as ONTV and SelecTV, Preview was a scrambled UHF subscription channel requiring a special set-top box to decode the signal. Preview's bro ...
, an early subscription television service in the United States *
Preview (theatre) Previews are a set of public performances of a theatrical presentation that precede its official opening. The purpose of previews is to allow the director and crew to identify problems and opportunities for improvement that were not found during re ...
, a public performance of a theatrical show before the official opening * Preview screening or test screening, a showing of a film or TV show before general release in order to gauge audience reaction *
Sneak preview 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 ...
, an unannounced film screening before formal release and after a preview screening *
Trailer (film) A trailer (also known as a preview, coming attraction or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater/cinema. It is a product of creative and tech ...
or preview, an advertisement for a film that will be exhibited in the future at a motion picture theater


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". Contents preview Using Preview feature, users can preview and see th ...
, an on-screen view of content as it will look when finalized or printed *
Preview (macOS) Preview is the vendor-supplied image viewer and PDF viewer of the macOS operating system. In addition to viewing and printing digital images and Portable Document Format (PDF) files, it can also edit these media types. It employs the Aqua gr ...
, a macOS application for displaying images and PDF documents *
Technical preview A software release life cycle is the sum of the stages of development and maturity for a piece of computer software ranging from its initial development to its eventual release, and including updated versions of the released version to help impro ...
, another name for the beta phase of the software release cycle


Recorded music

* '' DJ Drama Presents: The Preview'', a mixtape by Ludacris and DJ Drama * "Preview", the 13th and final song on Built to Spill's 1994 album, ''
There's Nothing Wrong with Love ''There's Nothing Wrong with Love'' is the second full-length 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 lab ...
'' * ''Preview'' (EP), the second EP by Australian singer-songwriter Kym Campbell, released in 2010 * ''The Preview'' (EP), a 2010 EP by Chiddy Bang


See also

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Foresight (disambiguation) Foresight most commonly refers to: * Foresight (psychology), the ability to predict or plan for the future * Mental time travel or episodic foresight, the ability to reconstruct events from the past and imagine future events * Precognition, a claim ...
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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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