Posted by Alan Moorman on 12/07/06 01:26

It looks more like human error, in that it jumped ahead, and then
jumped part way back.

Alan

On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 07:49:24 GMT, "Jim H" <jimhh@pacbell.net> wrote:

>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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