Bah.

[cellio]

Two identical VCRs, two shows to record. One records Enterprise just fine. The other records less than one minute of West Wing and then stops. Naturally, the one that failed couldn't have been the one picking up the show with a rerun later this week. Bah.

No idea what happened. It's not a programming glitch, and there's no obvious physical problem with the tape.

Last time this happened (cable outage, not hardware failure) one of my west-coast friends came to the rescue (because we were within the three-hour window caused by prime-time airing), but I'd feel awfully sheepish about asking again.

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[anisodragnfly.livejournal.com]

hey, i can probably download you a copy of West Wing from my Tivo, or if space crunch requires me to delete it before i can do that, i can lend you the tape.

you didn't do the idiotic thing i sometimes do when setting my timer and tape from 8:59 to 9:01, did you? i hate that.

it might have been a tape glitch. i've had faulty tapes that stop the VCR before.

anyway, i can have Jake drop the tape off for you at work either Friday or Monday depending on whether you're getting a fresh or used one.

[cellio]

Thanks!

you didn't do the idiotic thing i sometimes do when setting my timer and tape from 8:59 to 9:01, did you? i hate that.

I feared that possibility, but I checked an that wasn't it. 8:59 to 10:02, just as I thought. I'm going to do some testing with this VCR (it's only a year old, for crying out loud), but I'm currently guessing it's a tape glitch. I'll see if I can record something else onto that tape. (In fact, that's the first place I'll try to copy the tape I borrow. :-) )