Subject: Re: TWIN PEAKS Second Season Premiere - THE GIANT's VOICE
From: pbhx@ellis.uchicago.edu (Peter B. Hayward)
Date: 1990-10-09, 08:49
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <12973@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> ma299ai@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Jan Bielawski) writes:
> >In article <1990Oct4.013458.16639@supernet.haus.com> cluther@supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther) writes:
> ><
> ><Yes, the giant's voice did fade in and out, in regular intervals, and in
> ><three volume states.  He would be loud for about a second, normal for about
> ><a second, quiet for a second, normal, and loud again, until he stopped 
> ><talking.                                
> >
> >Not here.  The giant's voice stayed at the same volume throughout.
> >I suspect the fade in/out effect had something to do with the surround
> >encoding.  Maybe it tricked some cable boxes into raising/lowering the
> >volume. 
> >

For those tracking the sound drops (which also occurred in the first
season), I have been able to establish the following.

The giant's voice did *not* drop out as viewed on a Rochester, New
York cable system. The voice *did* drop in the Chicago area on *both*
cable and over-the-air broadcasts.

So, I am pretty certain it is not a Lynch trick. Perhaps it has
something to do with the network satellite feed to the midwest (and
maybe points west.)


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