So, I had the VCR all set up and I checked this a.m., wondering why it didn't look as if enough tape had wound around - for an hour-long show on a 2-hr tape, the reels should be about half-and-half. Rewound to the start, then fast-forwarded past Letterman's opening bit (noticing as I did how much he's starting to look like our PM Jean Chretien); past the Reese Witherspoon interview (noticing as I did, how much her head bobbed back and forth - if you don't believe me on either point, play your tape in fast forward.) So, then I see Jonatha - she's singing Linger and wearing that Starsky and Hutch T-shirt (again?!?) Get halfway through the song and the tape cuts out!!!!! Merde! I think I know now why this happened but have no idea how to fix the problem - it may be explained in the VCR manual but I have no idea where that is. Has anyone else ever had this problem? I programmed it to start last night just before 11:30 and to end just before 12:30 - but it seems that once the clock strikes 12:00, the VCR loses it and shuts off - because you also have to set the date and the date has changed. It only has a date to start, then a time to start and a time to end - no date to end. I went through the entire menu looking for options to get around this, but there don't seem to be any. It's kind of like the Y2K thing on a daily basis. I may have neglected to tell it to stop at 12;35 AM though - I may have selected PM (can't tell now that the event has passed.) So, what I have a tape of about half of "Linger" (which is better, I guess, than if JB had been at the END of the show and not the middle.) Did she sing more than one song and did Letterman interview her, or was it just sing one, then get off? Get your free @yahoo.ca address at http://mail.yahoo.ca
