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The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2005 Sep. ~ Nov.: All Things Technical: The Help Desk: VCRs users admin

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Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 9:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Tonight I recorded Martha's Apprentice (channel 5 here) immediately followed by Lost (channel 7 here.)

Martha turned out fine.

But for some freaking reason, Lost was recorded in Spanish!

WHY???

The only kinda good thing is when I put the captions on (is that what ya call it?) they are at least in English. But because Lost is so dark and moves so fast, I have to rewind a lot.

I just tested taping channel 7 again, and it came out fine (in English.) What happened? When Lost was starting it did show that SAP thing on the screen--if that means anything.

Any ideas? Anything I can do to prevent this from happening again?

(I know we are so archaic living with a VCR instead of Tivo or something... but please don't hold that against me!)

Draheid
Board Administrator

09-09-2001

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 9:50 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Draheid a private message Print Post    
SAP = Second Audio Program. Usually this will be an alternative language for the program, if available, will be recorded. If SAP is enabled but the program (such as Martha's Apprentice apparently) does not have a second language available, then the program records the regular channel. Since Lost does have SAP enabled with different language, having SAP enabled resulted in what you have now. Closed Captioning is completely separate, information technically stored in the video signal instead of the audio so it is unaffected by SAP.

You just need to locate the audio setup and change back to main program audio.

ETA: Locally, our PBS station carries BBC audio programs on the SAP during the day. You might check for something like that when you're trying to reset the VCR.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 9:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
Thanks Dra!!! 'Cept now I gotta go upstairs and get all geeky -- which I hate!!! Gives me such a headache trying to figure that stuff out! Thanks though!!! :-)

Sincebb1
Member

08-22-2005

Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 3:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sincebb1 a private message Print Post    
One more thing Julie. It happened to me...some remotes have a dedicated botton to switch to SAP as opposed to going into the menu. My cat walked on it and changed the program to record in Spanish. I was present and recording for my friend and all of a sudden Lost (same show) was in Spanish! Good thing I was home to change it back! Do you have a cat?

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Saturday, October 01, 2005 - 4:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Julieboo a private message Print Post    
I have 4 of them!!!! And they always step on my remotes, change the channels on me or up the volume, etc...

Somehow (not sure how) it resolved itself or I unknowingly fixed it!

Or maybe the cat stepped on the remote again!!!

Abby7
Member

07-17-2002

Monday, October 03, 2005 - 5:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
julie, i just heard on the news that last night's episode of Desperate Housewives was aired in Spanish. (Desperate Housewives is aired on ABC, sunday nights....i don't watch it). the news was reporting it would be re-aired. maybe, something like that happened in your area. however, cats do seem to like to step on remotes.

i was mainly interested in the story because the news and a commercial reported last week's episode of "Lost" will be re-aired tonight after the football game (here in Los Angeles).

a problem occurred with ABC due to the fires in Los Angeles last week, so "Lost" couldn't be shown.