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I’m awaiting delivery of my first Smart TV. I’m looking for any tech related tv programs.
Recently upgraded my cable service and am trying to find machining related programming. I have found the Science channel which has “How It’s Made” programs, but are there any others out there?
Chuck
 
I'm in the Primary Class after buying a relatively cheap Toshiba 42" Smart TV. I fiddled with the aerial, got a superb picture and fiddled about with a scart thing that has selectable outlets. So I can get DVD's using the old DVD player. The next trick was to get the satellite up and running. However, this isn't an ordinary UK thing- it is French and onto an normally English configuration. The French- like them or not have superb coverage of engineering and farming and whatever topics. My son is a French graduate, a former stagiare and owns a French farmhouse. My wife speaks almost as fluent French as him. I'm pretty good as we owned several French properties. So I finally bit the bullet and bought unlimited broadband and I'm getting the Internet now. Again, I've a library of some 32GB of engineering books and articles which will be readable along withg my Kindle and Ipad and tablet. OK, I dropped a bit of a clanger and bought a new DigiBox. So I've moved this into one of our bedrooms and it would suggest that for a bit of Ethernet cable that I can have everything from elsewhere.

On the cards, are the coupling up of the HiFi system which has amplifiers- and better loudspeakers.

I'm still trying to run CNC and fancy putting something to watch progress as my shed with all my stuuff in is---COLD.

Cheers

Norman
 
I use a Roku Box that supports Netflix, Hulu, and the history channel. I would have recommended the Science channel or The Discovery channel, but Ive heard their "scienceness" has gone down the drain. I have found that hulu has some nice documentaries. They had the Cosmos with NDT at one point. My girl friends uncle runs a media server, so we usually wait a day and he has most programming.
 
I suspect that we( Brits) are talking about Quest1 and 2 which are , I believe, Canadian and do 'How it is made'.

Actually, I enjoyed a bit where they made a trombone. Not that I'm into the beasts but a great story on copper bashing and silver soldering. I might know a deal about the topic but I enjoyed them using steel balls to sort the tube bends. Wife is into saxophones and metal clarinets of which there are few now.

I have an ear for music like Van Gogh;)
 
I just bought a device called a Chromecast stick (39$). It looks like a memory stick, and plugs into the back of the TV in an HDMI port, and a jumper lead into a USB for power. Simple setup and now anything that I see on Google Chrome I can throw to the TV....... UTube has a lot of good stuff.

On that note - I'm looking for a Brit series anout a guy that was making a canal boat, and traavelled all over the countryside to see how every bit was made ...any ideas?
 
Tim Leech is a repairer in Warrington WA4 4LA. Also a model engineer or is on our forums.

However, going off at a tangent there is a classic of Narrow Dog to Carcassone. Author is Terry Darlington.

A whippet dog called Jim lives on pork scratchings and wears a lifejacket with a handle, lives on a narrow boat which crosses the English Channel and goes up the Seine, into the waterways of France and finishes in Carcassone. Worth a watch if you have time.;)
 
If you have Roku, or any of the other boxes, you can get the youtube channel. Watch videos all day long. Lots of how-to, builds and running engines.
 
If you have Roku, or any of the other boxes, you can get the youtube channel. Watch videos all day long. Lots of how-to, builds and running engines.
#Actually I bought a box for what we call Freeview and as far as U tube is concerned it was in the TV.

Suggest you wait to see what is already in the TV

Cheers

Norman
 
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If you have Roku, or any of the other boxes, you can get the youtube channel. Watch videos all day long. Lots of how-to, builds and running engines.

Smart TVs dont even need external box... but I'll caution people they better have unlimited data plan on their net connection. When I first started using streaming video services I got hit with overage charges.

Youtube how to's will eat into your modelling time.
 
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