ix21@sdccs6.UUCP (David Whiteman) (05/28/84)
Earlier this morning at about 2:00 am PDT the Showtime cable network accidentally interchange reels 2 and 3 of Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Do accidents like this occur frequently? I remember several years ago when NBC was showing a miniseries and showed for 10 minutes Wednesday's episode on Tuesday.
ix21@sdccs6.UUCP (05/28/84)
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jeh@ritcv.UUCP (Jim Heliotis) (05/29/84)
How can this be? HBO at least claims to tape all the movies it gets, and
presumably they would fit on one reel of tape.
Jim Heliotis
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ritcv!jeh@Rochesterags@pucc-i (Seaman) (05/30/84)
> How can this be? HBO at least claims to tape all the movies it gets, and > presumably they would fit on one reel of tape. I think HBO tapes the movies for backup purposes. You don't normally see the taped version on HBO's broadcast, but they keep it running simultaneously with the film in case of technical difficulties. Then they can switch to the tape and viewers won't miss anything. I realize it would be next to impossible to keep the tape in EXACT synchronization with the film, but it shouldn't be hard to keep it within a few seconds. I don't know if any other cable services do this, but I know at least one that didn't -- the now-defunct SPOTLIGHT. I once watched a movie on that channel that was interrupted for some 20 minutes, after which they repeated at least 10 minutes that had already been shown. -- Dave Seaman ..!pur-ee!pucc-i:ags "Against people who give vent to their loquacity by extraneous bombastic circumlocution."