Please answer me this

S08E19 The Yada YadaliveApr 25, 1997the next day7 posts by 6 posters
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Viewers discuss VCR recording issues with episode timing, noting that Thursday night NBC broadcasts ran late and caused taping problems.

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John Patrick Riley

I always program my VCR 15 minutes earlier and 15 miutes later than what I want to watch. This eases frustration, because it seems the air times are never accurate, especially late at night or during football season. I'm still waiting to see the end of a horror movie I watched 15 years ago, before I started this policy. I wonder if the Atom bomb destoyed the monster. Maybe someday I'll find out. -John

D. Baddest↩ John Patrick Riley

What was the movie? I have the same problem with "Death Rides A Horse" (GREAT Lee Van Cleef western) that's been on TNT 2 times and each time I've had the end get cut off and I have no idea what happens! Oh yeah, I set my VCR for 4:58pm - 5:59pm and then I get Simpsons/Seinfeld with about a minute to spare on each side. Dan

Ray Schieber, Jr.

Yes,yes yes!!! I noticed the same thing...I thought my clock was wrong, but I had just set it. It actually was about a 33 min. show...start to finish.

Huckleberry↩ Ray Schieber, Jr.

In article , [email] says...

Yeah, all that advice about taping a minute or so before and after the show goes out the window with the yadda episode because it WAS an extra long show. Those who programmed their VCRs with a minute to spare on either side and were used to having this work fine were thwarted.

Ron Faktor↩ Huckleberry

It was not just Seinfeld, all shows were off on Thursday night on time for some reason on NBC. They all were starting late.

debbie↩ Ron Faktor

Ron Faktor wrote:

Seinfeld did not start late. But since it ended late, I bet the shows that followed it started late.

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Huckleberry↩ Ron Faktor

In article , [email] says...

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Somebody in this newsgroup actually timed* the episode, minus the ads. It was longer than most Seinfeld episodes (without the ads) by a couple minutes.

*This is not hard no is it anal to do. Many people keep a Seinfeld "library" that they make by removing ads when dubbing. Many VCRs today use real-time counters instead of the old 4-digit counter. If you are used to making these "library" tapes, you would probably notice right away when a certain episode is longer than the others. I used to dub a show to remove ads, and it was consistently 24 minutes long without the ads. This allowed me to put 5 episodes onto a standard VHS T120 tape, since 5 X 24 = 120. If some episodes had been 26 minutes instead, my tape would have run out. It would be something that someone would notice!