{"id":2412,"date":"2004-01-13T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-13T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2021-06-02T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T14:22:13","slug":"the-meaning-of-life-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/13\/the-meaning-of-life-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>The Meaning of Life<\/i> Resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/moviesbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I heard rumors from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedigitalbits.com\">The Digital Bits<\/a> that those people who&#8217;d sent back their defective <i>Meaning of Life<\/i> DVD were being sent back equally defective replacements! Even though the replacements were available by mid-November I took no chances, waiting until January 5 to send disc one back to MCA\/Universal. An agency called Lee Fulfillment sent my replacement Disc 1 back.  I got it yesterday and, thankfully, it plays perfectly. There are no interlacing problems and the disc is at last watchable.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I happened upon more interlacing problems in another new title. This time on disc two of <i>Cheers: The Second Season<\/i>. Strangely, they only pop up in one episode, &#8220;They Called Me Mayday&#8221;, and only in its second half (after what would&#8217;ve been the commercial break). This <i>Cheers<\/i> box set had another even stranger problem: one shot of Sam in the second to last episode is extremely grainy and it even looks slightly sped up, causing some choppy and chipmunky audio! It&#8217;s a shame such a great show is exhibiting such wear and tear, especially since the first season box looked flawless.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I heard rumors from The Digital Bits that those people who&#8217;d sent back their defective Meaning of Life DVD were being sent back equally defective replacements! Even though the replacements were available by mid-November I took no chances, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/13\/the-meaning-of-life-resolved\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2413,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}