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From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2000 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: US TV was Re: Dune
>
>
> On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, K Street wrote:
>
> > Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> > > Which is another point in favor of taping the show and watching the
> > > tape: fast-forwarding through the commercials. (Though I must admit
that
> > > having to hit the FF button every 5 minutes gets pretty annoying,
too.)
> >
> >
> > I've got a VCR that does that automatically. It marks the half-second
> > or so of blackness that comes just before and after commericals. But
> > sometimes it gets fooled by really dim scenes and goes by them too.
> > Law and Order used to be a pain because of all their fades to black,
> > but they changed the format and it's not a problem now.
>
> Ours is marking the title sequence for B5 as "commercial" sometimes, but
> not all the time. We haven't figured out just what is triggering it, but
> we can live with it right now.
>
> On the regular half-hour or hour TV shows, the commercial breaks are
> reasonably predictable. The worst pain I ever had in the fast-forwarding
> department was a football game.
>
I have a RCA unit that sometimes will not play a tape correctly at all. It
tries to fast forward through the entire tape. Talk about a pain in the
butt. And its mostly childrens movies, so I have to use another deck to play
flicks for my son. Just another tech inconvenience.
xponent
rob
