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Did the editing folks forget that the show was supposed to come in at under an hour.
I recorded last night's episode only to find that it ran longer than the hour slot.
Thought the beginning may have been delayed... but no, it started on time.
Scheduled a later recording and added 15 minutes, thinking that should be enough... the guide showed that it should have been an hour.
Looks like it ran somewhere closer to 20 minutes over.
I'd b###h at DTV, but if the schedule shows an hour, not much they could have done about adjusting the recording time to record all of it.
 
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Michael Hilley said:
Did the editing folks forget that the show was supposed to come in at under an hour.
I recorded last night's episode only to find that it ran longer than the hour slot.
Thought the beginning may have been delayed... but no, it started on time.
Scheduled a later recording and added 15 minutes, thinking that should be enough... the guide showed that it should have been an hour.
Looks like it ran somewhere closer to 20 minutes over.
I'd b###h at DTV, but if the schedule shows an hour, not much they could have done about adjusting the recording time to record all of it.
I saw the same thing on the 10PM EDT Americans. I also recorded the 12AM Justified, and it too shows an hour, but it looks like the first 12 minutes are the end of the 11PM Americans, and the end of Justified is missing.

Based on what I could see from the Justified overlap, it looks like about 2 more minutes of the Americans needed to be added to the 10PM recording.
 
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toobs said:
Justified comes on Tuesday night at 10pm. The Americans comes on Wednesday at 10pm. Maybe FC goofed up on Tuesday also? If they did, wouldn't they post something on ther site, sine it was the finale?
I recorded Justified for the first time that night, since I heard it might be in 1080p. If it originally aired without an issue Tuesday night, what I recorded was likely a re-run, which would explain why there was no need for FX to apologize.

Dumb luck I recorded it, tho, because it got me the last missing minute + of The Americans. :p
 
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Due to recording conflicts my HR24 recorded the 11PM airing which was actually the last 7 minutes of the 10PM airing which totally ruined the whole episode for us. Plus we still missed some of the episode when the recording ended at 11.
 
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Wondering if anyone else saw this, but this week's episode ("Only You") had a lot of digital breakups. The were in the same place on two different DVRs, so I wonder if it wasn't a problem with the original broadcast? We stopped watching it about 15 minutes in, for fear that we might miss key plot points. I've got it scheduled to re-record right after next week's new episode, so fingers-crossed that one will be OK.
 
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On a side note I just read on Yahoo the U.S. Marshals Service is selling the home of real life Russian deep cover operatives Vladimir and Lydia Guryev (aka Richard and Cynthia Murphy) in Mountclair, New Jersey. The couple have two children. They were arrested in 2010 after a decade long counterintelligence probe. The couple were part of a ring that meshed into American life while engaging in clandestine activities. Their primary mission was infiltrating U.S. policy circles to learn about U.S. Diplomacy and weapons information.
 
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Steve said:
I recorded Justified for the first time that night, since I heard it might be in 1080p...
Just for the record, a broadcast/DBS/cable channel can't simply offer any program in a different format than what they broadcast in, and they also can't easily change that format. Technically they could, just not easily, but it would cause a major glitch every time they went to a program segment in one format from a commercial or program segment in a different format. That glitch would burp the encoder significantly, and would also probably burp everyone's decoder, so it would really be two major glitches. It might even abort DVR recordings, or at a minimum turn a single recording into a series of short recordings, which is what happens when you lose and regain signal. No channel could afford that technical issue; there is just no graceful way to change format on the fly.

And actually, every piece of video that was originally film or 24 fps, regardless of its current format, is broadcast in 24p by virtue of the "film mode" aspect of MPEG encoding. But if the current mode had 3:2 pulldown, that is recreated in the local decoder (along with interlacing if it also had that), so you will still experience it as 1080i30 or whatever the current format is.

AFAIK, only one service broadcasts in 1080p24, and that is The NFL Channel. And most vendors rescale that to 1080i30 so that they can insert local commercials. My best guess is that they wanted to preserve the feel of their huge NFL films library, but it sort of backfired since most folks can't get it in 1080p24 anyway.

No matter, there is really no significant advantage of 24p, and it is typically offset by its disadvantages. If you have a 120 Hz or higher TV you do not have those disadvantages, but you already have the advantages of 24p for every other video format sent you, other than removal of the interlace error in 1080i.

Back OT, I am a little disappointed in what a schmuck the lead character is; he seems to be moping around about Gregory and doesn't even know how he feels about his fake wife or even why. Enough already. Noah Emerich's next-door neighbor character is much more interesting.

The story line of her starting to feel something for him is OK, but honestly, where else could they have gone? Would a story about these two not having feelings for each other be very compelling? I think not.

On the positive side, I thought they took great advantage of the Reagan shooting and told a pretty good story around that. (Oh yeah; Reagan got shot...hope that wasn't a spoiler to some of you)

Still in, just not as hopeful as I was after the premiere.
 
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