Lost question re: Sky's technical difficulties
cheekyangus
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I haven't watched the finale of Lost yet but did tape the 5am transmission.
Given the Digital Spy article about Sky's technical problem can anyone tell me how much of the show was missed and whether it spoiled it.
I'm tempted to wait till Tuesday's scheduled reshowing at 9pm if it's very bad.
Thanks in advance .
Given the Digital Spy article about Sky's technical problem can anyone tell me how much of the show was missed and whether it spoiled it.
I'm tempted to wait till Tuesday's scheduled reshowing at 9pm if it's very bad.
Thanks in advance .
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Thanks everyone!
That doesn't sound like it'll bother me.
I know, I was like "Oh my God, I don't f***ing believe it, what a bunch of f***ing - oh, okay."
I also thought for a moment that Sky hadn't told ABC about the plans for a simulcast and had just hooked themselves up to a Justin TV feed:D;)
Genius. I think someone with a sense of humour was at work there.
Because they were broadcasting a live American broadcast. They hadn't put in subs of their own yet.
It's going to be a struggle staying away from those spoiler threads...
I was watching the slightly earlier ABC stream and there were ads every 5-10 mins.
I think every time the Americans had an ad break we didn't, They showed a 'Your watching this live from the US' caption for 5-10 seconds.
There were still alot of ad breaks though, way more than you would usually get.
Please don't spoil what happens....
Thanks
I recorded the HD broadcast and it recorded fine with no warning of a technical fault. I have an approx 45 minutes to go and the only tech fault so far is literally at the very very beginning. You have the recap it switches to You're Watching LostLive from the US then it goes into Temperoray Fault which lasts about 20 seconds. it's been fine since.
That You're watching Lost Live from the US pops up occasionally but not enough to affect the viewing. each time maybe 5 seconds max. I think it's where links for adverts are.
For some reason it looks like it's going to break. You get that sign and it goes immediately into Lost again. You watch 5 minutes of sometimes longer and then that ssign comes up again and you are still watching the show.
There are proper advert breaks but not loads.
To me it looks like they have the show themselves and they switch to their copies when there are breaks in the US and then back to a live feed(?) when they return.
As I say I didn't get any part record or tech fault warning when i went to it via the planner. If you did then you may have a problem i didn't get.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5sujFX7yio
It *was* a simultaneous broadcast though in the sense that we got to the end about the same time as the States did.