Subj : Re: American foods
To   : Poindexter Fortran
From : AKAcastor
Date : Wed Jun 26 2024 10:18:36

 pF>  Its weird watching older TV shows that I watched in reruns as a kid in
 pF>  the late '70s. Star Trek, for example.

 pF>  They cut a couple of minutes out of the rerun versions to fit in more
 pF>  commercials than originally planned for. It wasn't until I watched the
 pF>  DVD versions of the series and saw scenes that I *swear* I hadn't seen
 pF>  in the hundreds of times watching them in reruns that I figured out
 pF>  what was going on.

I don't know which channels or content this is most common on, but at least in some cases they will also SPEED UP the playback slightly also.  With the audio pitch-corrected, running the video a few % faster is "hardly noticeable".  They're shameless!

In Canada we have a long-running TV show "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", the name is a reference to an old CBC news magazine titled "This Hour Has Seven Days" and also refers to the "30-minute timeslot" show having 22 minutes of content. These days, This Hour Has 22 Minutes only has 21 minutes.


Chris/akacastor

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