Posted by Jim H on 12/06/06 07:49

You local station is probably "time compressing" the program in order to
include more commercial time for themselves. Once in a while the hardware
hiccups and spits out a chunk of the program all at once.


<Alan Moorman@visi.com> wrote in message
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> I'm a fan of "Jeopardy" and my local station has a problem when they
> come back from the first break in the show -- the audio is about a
> second out of sync, and whoever has to patch something to get it back
> in sync takes anywhere from :10 to a minute to get it done.
>
> The other day, they came back from the break, and the sync was off,
> and stayed that way for a minute, then the show suddenly jumped
> forward in time by, oh, say a minute -- several questions and answers
> went by in the flash of an edit -- and then after about :30, they put
> it all back to the normal mode.
>
> I wonder what the h__ is going on there. This only happens after
> the first commercial break inside the show. . . .
>
> Alan
>
> ...who is enjoying being retired....
>
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