HDTV (High-Definition TV) is NOT the same as DTV (Digital TV), and DTV is what's been legislated to become the standard, not HDTV.
This is correct.
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MisterBeasley wrote: Safety Valve wrote: But now that Analog TV will be cut off pernamently early in 2008, we may put up a HDTV antenna to try and "See" it using a long range array.Don't count on the cutoff. It's already been delayed once. It's an arbitrary deadline that was set by the government. This is what happens when some dang fools try to legislate technology. It's the same with fuel efficiency standards. While I applaud their goals, they don't seem to understand that you can't command technology. They might as well require that we cure cancer and AIDS by 2009.How many people have an HDTV now? Maybe 10 percent of the population? Decent ones are still in the 2 kilobuck range. An HDTV cutover would leave 80 or 90 percent of the population without television, and in an election year, too! How would we decide which outstanding candidates to vote for without TV commercials, anyway?
Safety Valve wrote: But now that Analog TV will be cut off pernamently early in 2008, we may put up a HDTV antenna to try and "See" it using a long range array.
But now that Analog TV will be cut off pernamently early in 2008, we may put up a HDTV antenna to try and "See" it using a long range array.
Don't count on the cutoff. It's already been delayed once. It's an arbitrary deadline that was set by the government. This is what happens when some dang fools try to legislate technology. It's the same with fuel efficiency standards. While I applaud their goals, they don't seem to understand that you can't command technology. They might as well require that we cure cancer and AIDS by 2009.
How many people have an HDTV now? Maybe 10 percent of the population? Decent ones are still in the 2 kilobuck range. An HDTV cutover would leave 80 or 90 percent of the population without television, and in an election year, too! How would we decide which outstanding candidates to vote for without TV commercials, anyway?
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Network TV: CBS, NBC, ABC has been dead for 10 years in our home. We get news from the internet and from Satellite.
The ONLY time we really had tied into nettrash.. err.. network TV was for a two week time after 9-11. That truck never lost reception on it's little TV reciever anywhere east of the Mississippi 24/7 and had the best signal anywhere.
If that is the power of National Television we never had it so good. We tried the local network that transmits off the Redfield tower which is very far away and is 2000 feet in height and it was almost worthless. But now that Analog TV will be cut off pernamently early in 2008, we may put up a HDTV antenna to try and "See" it using a long range array.
loathar wrote: SteamFreak wrote: chateauricher wrote: I've sent in a suggestion to the producers if they could do a show on how model trains are built. I'd be very interested to know how these things are put together.Now that would be appointment television! I hope they take you up on your suggestion. I'd really like to see the assembly jigs for the steamers.I'm pretty addicted to the show myself. I have people eating out of my hand at parties now that I can dazzle them with my knowledge of how Q-Tips are made. Tracks Ahead did a segment from the Marklin plant. That was pretty neat. I wish I could hire some of the ladies from their paint department.
SteamFreak wrote: chateauricher wrote: I've sent in a suggestion to the producers if they could do a show on how model trains are built. I'd be very interested to know how these things are put together.Now that would be appointment television! I hope they take you up on your suggestion. I'd really like to see the assembly jigs for the steamers.I'm pretty addicted to the show myself. I have people eating out of my hand at parties now that I can dazzle them with my knowledge of how Q-Tips are made.
chateauricher wrote: I've sent in a suggestion to the producers if they could do a show on how model trains are built. I'd be very interested to know how these things are put together.
I've sent in a suggestion to the producers if they could do a show on how model trains are built. I'd be very interested to know how these things are put together.
Now that would be appointment television! I hope they take you up on your suggestion. I'd really like to see the assembly jigs for the steamers.
I'm pretty addicted to the show myself. I have people eating out of my hand at parties now that I can dazzle them with my knowledge of how Q-Tips are made.
Tracks Ahead did a segment from the Marklin plant. That was pretty neat. I wish I could hire some of the ladies from their paint department.
R. T. POTEET wrote: MisterBeasley wrote:OK, I don't get satellite. So, what "network" is this show on?If you don't have satellite that eliminates the Science Channel; if you don't have cable that eliminates the Discovery Channel and you ain't gonna get it!!!
MisterBeasley wrote:OK, I don't get satellite. So, what "network" is this show on?
If you have a decent cable provider, the "Discovery Channel package (including the Science Channel)" is an extra-fee add-on. IMHO, the add-on (which, here in Sin City, includes a bunch of sports channels, plus local information and broadcast channels in digital format) is well worth the cost.
The same provider is my high-speed internet interface.
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
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Ice road truckers does rule but I get too stressed out and splashing coffee whenever I see something developing. I try not to watch it too much.. too hard on the old ticker.
http://science.discovery.com/fansites/howitsmade/howitsmade.html
MisterBeasley wrote:OK, I don't get satellite. I used to, but every year they jacked up the rates and cut out a few channels, until they were no longer close to being competitive with cable. So, what "network" is this show on? Not the Q-Tip Channel, I hope, because Comcast doesn't carry that. At least not on Basic Cable. Maybe on Pay-Per-Q?
OK, I don't get satellite. I used to, but every year they jacked up the rates and cut out a few channels, until they were no longer close to being competitive with cable. So, what "network" is this show on? Not the Q-Tip Channel, I hope, because Comcast doesn't carry that. At least not on Basic Cable. Maybe on Pay-Per-Q?
I forget which network it's on, but it's part of Comcast's digital package. I'm going to call them now and demand the Q-Tip Channel.
P.S. Ice Road Truckers rules!
Nelson
Ex-Southern 385 Being Hoisted
I get mine on the dish network. As for the rates we started a few years ago at 30 dollars a month and now are up to 50. But we also reduced our outgoing bills by 4 figures a month and the equiptment is paid off so.. we dont mind. We might even upgrade.
But we are marking time until fiber reaches the home with at least 25 megabits.. then we can ditch the dish and hook in real good.
They host the show on the science channel.
As for old crummy plastic wheels, well, I'm in the middle of painting and then applying Instant Rust to about a dozen sets, plus a few loose wheels. They'll go on a 3-inch stub track next to the roundhouse, as old spares that probably will never be used. But at least they're not old wheelsets that will never be used sitting in my parts box.
juby4life wrote:I myself am addicted to that show. If it's useless knowledge and won't help me in anyway then I will learn it. ALthough the really bad play on words at the beginning of every episode is hard to swallow.
Well Im all over the ICE Road truckers where they build a highway on frozen lakes for 2 months of hauling fun up there. They showed a Young pup's first run on that ice in what they think is a white out. Im sorry, but they aint seen a total white out. Im talking about the kind where you thought that the LORD spray painted your windows Opaque white and yer putting the right steer tire on the gravel shoulder to find the pavement by feel.
I also think that this time of year happens to be Canada Day as well. Celebrations around. Wait until we spin up our own celebrations LOL
(Apologies to our UK Friends on the other side of the pond, they may not be feeling too celebratory this time of year)
chateauricher wrote: It's good to see you Americans praising a Canadian TV production ! Yes, the puns can be hard to swallow; but the rest of the show is always quite informative.I've sent in a suggestion to the producers if they could do a show on how model trains are built. I'd be very interested to know how these things are put together.
It's good to see you Americans praising a Canadian TV production ! Yes, the puns can be hard to swallow; but the rest of the show is always quite informative.
The one thing I've learned from "How It's Made" is that most of the places where things are made range in size from large to humongous! No Dubious Mfg. Co. shipping multiple carloads daily out of a building the size of a suburban duplex.
As for it being a Canadian show - Canada has given us everything from William Shatner to Peter Jennings to Pam Anderson. Why not informative, well-produced industrial documentaries?
While I enjoy "How It's Made", there is another Canadian show I enjoy called "Holmes on Homes" about home remodeling. Not about trains, but shows how small structures should be built, for those of you into super detailing your model houses!
Bob Hayes
Uhh. I rather not.
I just got done putting together three Athearn Blue Boxcars. I threw away the following: Elcheapo Plastic couplers, plastic wheels and one bad truck that does not track true. I used the following to improve them:
Metal wheels from Proto, wheel gauge, Wheel reamer, 148 Whiskers, clamps for the weights and Xacto blade for the door bottoms and spare Athearn items.
I do have a curiosity about how they are made, but gotta admit, I want to see the engines like the steam and desiels get made, tested and quality controlled. THAT's what I really want to see.. admit it! LOL.
chateauricher wrote:I've sent in a suggestion to the producers if they could do a show on how model trains are built. I'd be very interested to know how these things are put together.
I watched a show called "How it's made" off Satellite and find it very good when one is interested in the inner workings of a widget factory.
Consider the show today they did a part on Apple Juice.
Load of apples, wash the apples, mash the apples, check the juice, filter the juice, double check the contaminants, bring in empty plastic bottles, sterilize the bottles with hydrogen peroxide, fill the bottles, attach labels and seals, make boxes of apple juice ready to ship.
I find myself sitting in front of the display making notes on a pad with an eye towards using some of this information at a local apple place I have planned for the railroad. (How in heck to get cider or vinegar? lol)
Has anyone else found any value to these shows?