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Skriven 2014-03-08 23:04:00 av Holger Granholm (2:20/228)
     Kommentar till en text av Roy Witt
Ärende: Re: Early warning
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In a message dated 03-07-14, Roy Witt said to Holger Granholm:

GE Roy,

RW>We have access to NASCAR racing on our locally broadcast Fox
RW>channel, but that will end about midway through the season and we'll
RW>have to go to ESPN to get the last half of the racing season.

The cable company here carries a lot of pay-channel packages but I don't
have time, nor intertest, for the various films and odd sports they do
carry so I delete all Filmnet and C-More channels from the pgm listings
in the TV sets. I only have the base package and now also the Base +
that carries among others Motors TV.

 HG> What I didn't know then was that a race 3 would follow on sunday.
 HG> I stumbled on a replay of that late sunday night and followed it to
 HG> lap 40/78 before going to a delayed nights sleep.

RW>Maybe it's time for you to invest in a video recorder...That's a
RW>nice way to skip commercials and fast forward to watch races.

I have two VCR's but I haven't actually tried to record anything on them
since I bought the new HD TV-sets. I douby that they are compatible with
the HD signals. OTH Motors TV isn't transmitted in HD format here but
having no program listing for that channel what's the use of a recorder?

 RW>> We now have the MAVTV channel, which it seems spends more of it's
 RW>> time on Boat drag racing than anything else. And they re-run those

That wouldn't interest me at all,as well as boat racing in dug channels
or ditches that I've seen on Motors TV isn't interesting.

OTOH you and I have grown up in different motorsport worlds so what does
interes you may not interest me at all. No kind of racing on circles
like at Indy and other ovals do interest me, nor any kund of drag racing
but car racing on racing circuits similar to the F1 circuits with cars
of different manufacturers as well as F1. I'm not interested in racing
with "pne-type" cars where only the body is different of formulas having
the same engine in every car.

RW>What we have now is the VEL or Velocity channel, which is more car
RW>oriented than MAVTV. Some of the  older programs are run on it too,

That's nice.

RW>............ One of my favorite programming was a two hour series on
RW>off road buggy building, an engine building tech, a muscle car
RW>rebuilding pgm and my favore, Trucks. It used to run both Saturday

Racing pick-ups and buggies on man made gravel tracks with jumps may be
interestin time killers to look at but I haven't grown upin that era, HI

 RW>> I'm assuming that you have either cable or satelite TV in asking
 RW>> this question: Doesn't your tv provider have a 'tv guide' channel?

Yeah, I recalled later that I hadn't replied to that question so that's
why I stated it above but they don't have a tv-guide. Instead every TV
company publishes a TV-guide on their TXT-TV pages and we also get them
in printed form with our local newspapers but we have nothing on Motors
TV and they don't carry TXT-TV pages.

RW>Well, that's better than nothing. DircTV (sat) has a guide that
RW>gives you a description of the program, what the next one is about

That's what the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) gives us on Motors TV but
it shows only what's going on what's next. No times are listed nor any
re-runs.

aka Holger

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