Brer Holger Granholm wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Re: Early warning:   
      
    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.   
      
    HG> The cable company here carries a lot of pay-channel packages but I   
    HG> don't have time, nor intertest, for the various films and odd sports   
    HG> they do carry so I delete all Filmnet and C-More channels from the   
    HG> pgm listings in the TV sets.   
      
   I have over 700 channels to choose from via satellite, most of it is   
   pay-per-view and premium movie channels, which I block out. My basic TV   
   consists of maybe 60 of all those channels available.   
      
    HG> I only have the base package and now also the Base + that carries   
    HG> among others Motors TV.   
      
   I carry an extra 10 channels that are HD in nature and they play mostly   
   movies, which I'v probably seen in the theatre, but it's good to view them   
   again. Among those HD channels is the Velocity channel that is dedicated   
   to automotive programming.   
      
    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.   
      
    HG> I have two VCR's but I haven't actually tried to record anything on   
    HG> them since I bought the new HD TV-sets. I douby that they are   
    HG> compatible with the HD signals.   
      
   If they're HDTVs, then they are compatible with the HD signal.   
      
    HG> OTH Motors TV isn't transmitted in HD format here but having no   
    HG> program listing for that channel what's the use of a recorder?   
      
   As Paul has shown you, there is an online guide and I now envy your Motor   
   TV channel. Since the loss of the SPEED channel, we no longer get to see   
   those V8 Supercar races from down under.   
      
    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   
      
    HG> That wouldn't interest me at all,as well as boat racing in dug   
    HG> channels or ditches that I've seen on Motors TV isn't interesting.   
      
   It isn't here either. The only recourse I have is to watch what   
   programming is on ESPN...   
      
    HG> OTOH you and I have grown up in different motorsport worlds so what   
    HG> does interes you may not interest me at all. No kind of racing on   
    HG> circles like at Indy and other ovals do interest me, nor any kund of   
    HG> drag racing but car racing on racing circuits similar to the F1   
    HG> circuits with cars of different manufacturers as well as F1. I'm not   
    HG> interested in racing with "pne-type" cars where only the body is   
    HG> different of formulas having the same engine in every car.   
      
   You might be interested in NASCAR racing on tracks like LimeRock and   
   Senoma, where you still drive in a circle, but the track is laid out   
   similar to the Aussie tracks and those in Europe where they race sports   
   cars with right and left hand turns.   
      
    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,   
      
    HG> 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   
      
    HG> Racing pick-ups and buggies on man made gravel tracks with jumps may   
    HG> be interestin time killers to look at but I haven't grown upin that   
    HG> era, HI   
      
   Those aren't racing programs as much as they are informative programs in   
   how to build an off-road rock crawler buggy, or how to build a street   
   truck to go off-road. Then there is the program where they take a Detroit   
   engine and build it to make twice as much HP and torque than it made from   
   the factory. And lastly, the program where they restore 1960s and 70s   
   muscle cars...   
      
    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?   
      
    HG> Yeah, I recalled later that I hadn't replied to that question so   
    HG> that's why I stated it above but they don't have a tv-guide. Instead   
    HG> every TV company publishes a TV-guide on their TXT-TV pages and we   
    HG> also get them in printed form with our local newspapers but we have   
    HG> nothing on Motors TV and they don't carry TXT-TV pages.   
      
   Now you know about MotorsTV.com and their guide.   
      
    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   
      
    HG> That's what the EPG (Electronic Program Guide) gives us on Motors TV   
    HG> but it shows only what's going on what's next. No times are listed   
    HG> nor any re-runs.   
      
   From what I saw on the MotorsTV web guide, they tell you if the   
   programming is a replay or new...   
      
      
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