Any broadcast dropouts?

[tangentslayer]

We had a few dropouts in Albuquerque, mostly during the short and once during Jonathan Colton's first number.  Once the feature hit, no interruptions.

When they mentioned in the movie that Albuquerque was a 9 o'clock town, a lot of the audience yelled out "Still is!"

[spaceforarent]

Just a couple of momentary glitches here in Syracuse, NY. Otherwise it was flawless, and one of the most hilarious evenings I've enjoyed in a long time! Can't wait for the next one! Life is so dull without MST3K/Rifftrax/Cinematic Titanic.

Love you guys!

Woo! That makes 2 people here (and that includes me) that have reported from Syracuse. I only remember one short skip during the short though. Otherwise it was perfect.

[toyrobot]

Our theater in Savannah, GA, had trouble getting the feed. We started almost an hour late (which netted us free passes), had the same minor freeze-ups as everyone else. Theater was packed, everyone loved it - many mst3k shirts, I noticed. The row ahead of me tried to pass the time before the show by doing the wave (with mediocre results).

Great night!

[victrolacola]

Washington, DC had three or four dropouts, as the OP described (if you listened toward the theater, you'd have heard the Jay-Wardian waves of "awwww" and "yayyyy" from the crowd).

Also, we lost less than a minute of Veronica's welcoming speech.

[Sharktopus]

Atmospheric conditions in space must have interfered with the Fathom satellites. (Somebody had to say it.)

In Paramus We had 4 signal drop-outs during the short, luckily none were more than 2 or 3 seconds. I'd never been in a crowd of so many people booing - it really enanced the Ed Wood atmosphere.

[RVR II]

Atmospheric conditions in space must have interfered with the Fathom satellites. (Somebody had to say it.)

In Paramus We had 4 signal drop-outs during the short, luckily none were more than 2 or 3 seconds. I'd never been in a crowd of so many people booing - it really enanced the Ed Wood atmosphere.

DAMN DUDE!! WHERE IN THE F*CK HAVE YOU BEEN, BRO

WELCOME BACK!!!

[BeautifulMind]

Rockford Illinois lost most of the second half of the movie, apparently due to a major thunderstorm. Someone even tried to hit the help button that came up in the image on the screen, but - alas - it didn't work.

It was a pretty long blackout but I don't think it was "most". It would be nice to see what we missed but I will definitely be up for the next one!

[Bob M.]

The Scranton, PA, showing had 4-5 very short drop-outs near the beginning, but nothing too bad. Well worth the stop on the way home from a business trip

[gbeenie]

Atmospheric conditions in space must have interfered with the Fathom satellites. (Somebody had to say it.)

In Paramus We had 4 signal drop-outs during the short, luckily none were more than 2 or 3 seconds. I'd never been in a crowd of so many people booing - it really enanced the Ed Wood atmosphere.

Holy crap! Where have you been?

[coderjo]

Grand Rapids, MI also had some drop-outs. I don't know about anything before the end of the short, as I arrived late. After "Re: Your Brains", the screen went blank for several seconds. Around the same time, there were some glitches during one of Veronica's segments. Then later, towards the end of Plan 9, there were a few glitches.

I hadn't been aware, before reading a couple of these threads that the show was being transmitted via Dish Network. 18"-20" dishes barely cut it, and don't work at all with enough cloud cover or precipitation. Movie theaters that use Dish content for some events really should have a larger dish, in my opinion, in order to reduce the effect of attenuation ("rain fade"). It's not like the dish isn't mounted on the roof, out of view, anyway. Go with a full, mesh, 6.5 to 12 foot dish. 

[BeautifulMind]

I hadn't been aware, before reading a couple of these threads that the show was being transmitted via Dish Network. 18"-20" dishes barely cut it, and don't work at all with enough cloud cover or precipitation. Movie theaters that use Dish content for some events really should have a larger dish, in my opinion, in order to reduce the effect of attenuation ("rain fade"). It's not like the dish isn't mounted on the roof, out of view, anyway. Go with a full, mesh, 6.5 to 12 foot dish. 

Yeah! What he said! Seriously though, I wonder if theaters would be willing to invest in better equipment if this becomes a more common mode of entertainment. This is the first I'd heard of beamed via satellite to movie theaters technology!