[mythtv-users] Long films and news breaks

[Robert Johnston]

On 3/23/06, Alexander Fisher <alexjfisher at gmail.com> wrote:
> Some random thoughts ...
> Could we use IMDB to look up the run times of all scheduled movies?
> Is the offending mid-movie show always news?  Why would it be anything else!?
> Two halves of a split showing are often similar lengths.
> A repeat showing isn't always exactly the the same length as the first
> showing (Jaws 3 is 1hr55 the first time round but only 1hr50 later on)

The main problem there is that films are cut and time compressed for
TV showing. So what would be a 2hour film is chopped down to 1:30 (Or
less) to fit into schedules.
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Robert "Anaerin" Johnston