Starting this thread so we can keep up to date with automotive stuff on the TV box in 2014.
A brief history of the TV for the under 25's, it's the big screen in your living room that everyone can watch.
Alas a long time ago in the UK we only 3 channels and with black & white pictures, with no recording device.
In the 1980's we got 4 channels & VCR machines with big black plastic tape cassettes
(a bit like a CD but rectangle) and we had to buy them in real shops !!
You could then record your programs on these, unless you hid the tape your with Topgear on it your mum would tape Coronation street over the top of it never to be seen again !.
1990's the birth of SKY TV a game changer but with more rubbish channels
Jump to 2014 and you can watch TV on any thing with a screen, any time any place in between sim-racing
Just a few of my favorites to start with
BBC, TopGear - 3 blokes going grey cocking about in the odd car now and then ( now a family show )
Discovery, Fifth Gear - 2 racers, 1 car bloke , and one very nice lady who screams when she's driving fast (still a proper car show like TopGear use to be)
Discovery - Wheeler Dealers, Buy car, fix car, sell car for profit " Edd you've done it again "
Discovery Turbo - Lots of programs with the USA custom theme
A few that programs that were on recently
Idris Elba - King of Speed http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nnsnq
Speed with Guy Martin http://www.channel4.com/programmes/speed-with-guy-martin/4od
Patrick Dempsey Le Mans http://www.discoveryuk.com/tv-guide/?type=series&channel_code=DCUK-ENG&series_id=209097
Soon - James May toy stories http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/c...--james-mays-toy-stories-the-motorcycle-diary
Post links or info off any related program for Automotive or Man stuff telly to watch or record
A brief history of the TV for the under 25's, it's the big screen in your living room that everyone can watch.
Alas a long time ago in the UK we only 3 channels and with black & white pictures, with no recording device.
In the 1980's we got 4 channels & VCR machines with big black plastic tape cassettes
(a bit like a CD but rectangle) and we had to buy them in real shops !!
You could then record your programs on these, unless you hid the tape your with Topgear on it your mum would tape Coronation street over the top of it never to be seen again !.
1990's the birth of SKY TV a game changer but with more rubbish channels
Jump to 2014 and you can watch TV on any thing with a screen, any time any place in between sim-racing
Just a few of my favorites to start with
BBC, TopGear - 3 blokes going grey cocking about in the odd car now and then ( now a family show )
Discovery, Fifth Gear - 2 racers, 1 car bloke , and one very nice lady who screams when she's driving fast
(still a proper car show like TopGear use to be)Discovery - Wheeler Dealers, Buy car, fix car, sell car for profit " Edd you've done it again "
Discovery Turbo - Lots of programs with the USA custom theme
A few that programs that were on recently
Idris Elba - King of Speed http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03nnsnq
Speed with Guy Martin http://www.channel4.com/programmes/speed-with-guy-martin/4od
Patrick Dempsey Le Mans http://www.discoveryuk.com/tv-guide/?type=series&channel_code=DCUK-ENG&series_id=209097
Soon - James May toy stories http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/c...--james-mays-toy-stories-the-motorcycle-diary
Post links or info off any related program for Automotive or Man stuff telly to watch or record
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