VCR grumble
Oct. 16th, 2005 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioLast week, although the VCR made all the right noises and light-blinks, we did not get West Wing. It did its thing for an hour but the search backward for the beginning took seconds and produced only a brief bit of new material before cutting out. I borrowed a tape from a coworker and recorded the episode onto that tape, so the media itself did not seem to be at fault. Since then I recorded another show using that VCR (different tape), so the VCR is not exhibiting a general problem. The programming is just fine.
It happened again this week. WTF?
So I'll see if I can borrow a tape again (sigh), and I'll retire the current tape even though a VCR-to-VCR copy onto it worked fine. (Tape's cheap, but this spoils my sense of orderliness.) And I just had an idea and have programmed another VCR to also record the show, lest it happen a third time.
But I really don't understand the failure mode.
It happened again this week. WTF?
So I'll see if I can borrow a tape again (sigh), and I'll retire the current tape even though a VCR-to-VCR copy onto it worked fine. (Tape's cheap, but this spoils my sense of orderliness.) And I just had an idea and have programmed another VCR to also record the show, lest it happen a third time.
But I really don't understand the failure mode.
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Date: 2005-10-17 02:35 am (UTC)For links to TV shows, the site I use these days (they tend to have a short life) is http://www.tvtorrent.info/ Each episode usually appears within a few hours (by the next morning at the latest) of broadcast.
I'll be heading there, because I was at a concert tonight. And, actually, I can't remember if I watched last week's show. Oh, wait...was that the one that was centred around Vinick? I know I started it...don't know if I finished it...think so...hmm...