"How it's made" Satellite show

[trainboy414]

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.

i saw that epesode too (i have them all on old school vhs tapes)

[loathar]

MisterBeasly-It’s on the Discovery Channel. I know Time Warner had it on their basic cable package a while back. Don’t know about ComCast. The ComCast line ends less than 2 miles from my house. They wanted over $10,000 to run it to my house and connect me.[xx(]

[Anonymous]

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.

[MisterBeasley]

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?

[Anonymous]

I dont know very much about HDTV yet, however the local TV stations as we know them already have digital channels that is HDTV only. And from what I can gather they have been installing and making the move ahead of the shutdown order.

[Midnight_Railroader]

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?

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.

[modelmaker51]

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.