FridgeFreezer Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 I loved this when it was on TV, and lo it's available for download: The Secret Life Of Machines Wonder why they never repeated it, probably far too educational compared to TV gold like Big Brother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguevogue Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Cool! I remember it, should be compulsary viewing for all school kids. I can see i'll be glued to the computer when I get home tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Blimey those sideburns can only mean one thing........far too early for me!! I was still watching the chuckle brothers and other such nonsense!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbocharger Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Despite not remembering any of this, I had a book by Tim Hunkin entitled 'Nearly everything there is to know' or similar. A lot of good stuff in there, all wrapped up in a neat comedy package. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Blimey those sideburns can only mean one thing........far too early for me!! I was still watching the chuckle brothers and other such nonsense!!! Bit too much like a physics lesson for you I would have thought. Pantrey has them all on video from when they were on the first time (and he has the fact sheets too!).... Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajlorton Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Excellent! The grand download has begun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green110 Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 This was compulsory viewing when I was at college (along with Red Dwarf obviously). I seem to remember an episode where they used various explosives in a home made bazooka firing beer cans to demonstrate that petrol burns very rapidly and with lots of energy. G110 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
galooph Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 I bought all the episodes on DVD direct from Tim Hunkin. You can get his email address from here. We exchanged quite a few emails at the time and he really is a top bloke. Here's the info I got from him... "I couldn’t persuade anyone to produce commercial DVDs of the series so I’ve mastered my own set. They work fine, but are mastered from PAL VHS tapes so the image quality is not quite as sharp as DVD movies. I’ve made 3 disks, each one containing a complete 6 part series, in both PAL and NTSC. For people who originally saw the films on satellite channels, there’s additional material, as the satellite versions were cut to leave more time for the adverts! I’m afraid they are not cheap, they are only licensed in limited numbers for ‘educational’ use – I don’t have the rights to produce commercial quantities! SECRET LIFE OF MACHINES 1 Vacuum Cleaner, Washing machine, Sewing Machine, Refrigerator, Central Heating System, Television set SECRET LIFE OF MACHINES 2 The Car, Internal combustion Engine, Quartz Watch, Radio, Telephone, Video Recorder SECRET LIFE OF MACHINES 3 Fax Machine, Lift (elevator), Word Processor, Electric Light, Photocopier, Office TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION: The PAL version disks will play on PC and MAC computers in any country and set top DVD players in Europe and all other PAL and SECAM countries. The NTSC disks are slightly lower quality (720 by 480 pixels instead of 720 by 576), but will play on US set top DVD players (and computers). A few earlier set top DVD players (over a couple of years old) won’t play DVD+R disks! I will refund your cash if the disks don’t run on your player. Each disk contains 160 minutes of video, recorded in DVD+R, on a Pioneer burner, transcoded at 3000kps VBR from a VHS source, in multi-region format." Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajlorton Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Yay got them all. That's my viewing for the next week sorted then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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