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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[kayre]

As it happens, we got West Wing but not Enterprise, thanks to a power outage.

Not sure how clear the West Wing tape is, though; got it off a Kalamazoo station because the nearer station was apparently affected by the power outage.

Wish we had a power outage

[patsmor.livejournal.com]

Then the replay of the stupid debate from 7 pm might not be showing instead of West Wing!!!

[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.

[cafemusique.livejournal.com]

I managed to get in the door at 9:01 PM, but my VCR was running. (Which was good, because given the evening I'd had it wouldn't have surprised me if I wanted to just go to sleep.)

But a good episode. I don't like the storyline...but that will be over with soon enough, and we'll just have the aftermath to deal with.

[murmur311.livejournal.com]

i, too, didn't get west wing on tape because i completely forgot to set it. :( i was heading home from class (which ends at 9) and realized that i forgot to... and got home at 9:30. i watched the last half hour, but i had no clue as to what was going on. i'm hoping my mom taped it...

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

I'm nearly positive we have both Enterprise and West Wing on Tape (the same tape actually). I'm sure we can mail the tape out to you if you have the need. I can probably put it into FedEx from work tomorrow (I get a corporate discount on FedEx that makes it about the same as post office prices) so you'd have it Saturday or Monday at the latest.

That is, if Seth's done with the tape. Otherwise, I'd have to put it in on Monday, and you'd get it Tuesday.

[rectangularcat]

It would have been no problem except that my PC is off most of the time due to same annoying virii and so I just read this entry. Our router and thus firewall has broken down and every time I connect to the internet, I am unprotected. So I tend to leave the PC off.

Reading the comments though, I think you are in good hands!

I tend to have the same problems with the VCR - I think it may be due to the fact that it automatically sets its clock to the PBS channel and sometimes, the PBS feed comes from another timezone... Silly new technology. My old VCR never did that!