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Spaceship Earth "Your Future" video problem
- Thread starter kbmum
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AndyS2992
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When we went in September, we got the still images emailed okay but the videos attached to all three, was just a generic one with no sound. Very disappointing. Definitely something wrong with it.
Chef Mickey
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Doesn't help, but interesting. Our vehicle had a Windows screen the entire time and a "Spaceship Earth Vehicle Diagnostics Utility" icon on the desktop. No audio or finale. It was running Windows NT.
FoodRockz
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Simply the best!
THEMEPARKPIONEER
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Isn't Windows NT way back from 1993? If so there still using the same system from 1993, I wonder if hey still have that old music programmed.
lazyboy97o
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The Windows NT name was kept alive until Windows 2000 and continued on as Windows XP through to Windows 10 of today. Windows NT 4 had extended support until 2006. Much to Microsoft's chagrin a lot of people and business stick to what is working for them.
Err the screens - and software - were added in 2007.
jessfriends
Active Member
Back in April our faces were not coming through correctly and would be half missing on one or both of us. Sometimes a cartoon face was in place of one of our faces. I hope they address these issues soon. I would also like to see an update so there are more scenarios.
Chef Mickey
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Yes, I wish I had a picture. I took a picture of the desktop, but I don't have one from the "Welcome to Windows" screen that clearly said Windows NT when it was re-booting.
They let us re-ride, btw.
bethymouse
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I should have asked to re-ride. The same thing happened to us more than once. It makes a big difference in the ride.
AndyS2992
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I work at a recently opened retail store and our tills are running on Windows 2000 and office computers are running XP. It's ridiculous.
I work for a well known national network television production. I use a mixing desk running XP.
We never plug it into the web.
Chef Mickey
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I never feel bad about asking for a re-ride and cast members are always (every time I've asked) as helpful and understanding.I should have asked to re-ride. The same thing happened to us more than once. It makes a big difference in the ride.
I've asked for re-rides on Pirates and Haunted Mansion just because people were taking flash pictures and screaming throughout the first ride.
We've had to do it on Toy Story because of aiming calibration and even Space Mountain because one side had a lot of light leaking into the ride. They let us ride the other side.
World_Showcase_Lover007
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I've tried to have my videos emailed to me on three separate trips to WDW. I have not succeeded in being able to watch any of them. One time they emailed me the video of my mother-in-law twice instead of my own. And not to mention, my face image is always screwed up when going on Spaceship Earth. But I can still watch my roller coaster video from The Sum of All Thrills!
TheGuyThatMakesSwords
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All personal opinion on our part - I'm not right you aren't wrong.....
The very BASIC reason my wife and I dislike this thing.... the TERRIBLE face recognition at the START of SSE. Anyone with dark hair tends to end up with half their head caved in 
. Blond? You are Golden .
Were it me? I would be tempted to experiment with a little back-light at that ride point.
The very BASIC reason my wife and I dislike this thing.... the TERRIBLE face recognition at the START of SSE
. Anyone with dark hair tends to end up with half their head caved in . Blond? You are Golden .Were it me? I would be tempted to experiment with a little back-light at that ride point
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wdwfan22
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Because of light leaking through they let you re-ride Space Mountain. I'm sure it was much darker during the second trip LOL.
Because of light leaking through they let you re-ride Space Mountain. I'm sure it was much darker during the second trip LOL.
Chef Mickey
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Actually, it was because the other side didn't have as much light pollution because it was a small section (I believe from TTA) that had the curtain fall down.
Hmm, from my understanding those in-vehicle units are generally running Windows XP Embedded, with heavy customizations to remove anything unnecessary — or at least that was supposed to be the case. Maybe it was booted to a special diagnostic partition, or part of their customization of XP Embedded was to strip it down to the old NT GUI components? I'm not entirely sure. Did you see an icon on the desktop labeled vShow? Visionetics vShow is the actual show software.
Chef Mickey
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Yeah, it was definitely Windows NT bc my wife and I laughed about it. Not sure if it was Windows NT when it finally got to the desktop (I'm not even sure how that looks) but the boot screen was definitely NT.
I'll list the icons I saw:
My Computer
My Network Places
SSE Update Utility
VShow
Vehicle Diagnostics
Console1.msc
Dio626Diag...
Would be interested to know what these mean.