You mean we got all the way to page 2 before this?
You mean we got all the way to page 2 before this?
I was actually excited when I found out that H2 was going away.. I like watching some shows like Ancient Aliens and what not just to see what kind of stupid E36 M3 they would say about cool places.. they are going to carry shows like that back to History, which meant that I could drop down one channel package on Dish and save some cash..
Then I looked on the Dish site and found out that most channels that I watch are on that package, too...
SilverFleet wrote:Appleseed wrote: Remember when it was the HitlerChannel? Good times.You guys remember Discovery Wings? That was another cool channel. They had Wings over the Luftwaffe, which was fascinating.
The Wings channel was the high water mark of all TV.
Appleseed wrote: Remember when it was the HitlerChannel? Good times.
My sister used to say that THC was rebroadcasting WWII in real time.
Appleseed wrote:SilverFleet wrote:The Wings channel was the high water mark of all TV.Appleseed wrote: Remember when it was the HitlerChannel? Good times.You guys remember Discovery Wings? That was another cool channel. They had Wings over the Luftwaffe, which was fascinating.
Agreed. In the early days they also showed inside marketing films for defense products, which was way cool.
mattmacklind wrote:Appleseed wrote:Agreed. In the early days they also showed inside marketing films for defense products, which was way cool.SilverFleet wrote:The Wings channel was the high water mark of all TV.Appleseed wrote: Remember when it was the HitlerChannel? Good times.You guys remember Discovery Wings? That was another cool channel. They had Wings over the Luftwaffe, which was fascinating.
Wings was cool. But with a finite amount of airplanes out there, they ran out of subjects to talk about pretty quick.
Heck Military/AHC re-hashes a lot of the same WWII subjects that were covered in the early 70's series "The World at War". They now are getting new stuff as veterans are talking in their last years.
On a related note- the fact that Speedvision was not just cars helped it a lot. Going to Speed really limited what Fox could put on. Perhaps the lack of content was a reason it went from Speed to FS1.
History is battling 2 other channels that HAVE history as part of the point- National Geographic and Smithsonian.
BTW, as much as one hates reality TV- there's a good NatGeo series called "the Great Human Race" which is basically another survival show. But it has no conflicts between the two, there nothing remotely about their relationship- the two hosts are focused on surviving given the historical knowledge of who they are trying to emulate. Including limiting access to tools, shelter, and even fire. They are following the best data that archaeologists have come up starting in the savanna of Africa 2.6M years ago. Putting the history in a real context.
Appleseed wrote:SilverFleet wrote:The Wings channel was the high water mark of all TV.Appleseed wrote: Remember when it was the HitlerChannel? Good times.You guys remember Discovery Wings? That was another cool channel. They had Wings over the Luftwaffe, which was fascinating.
FWIW, all those are most likely preserved on YouTube for your viewing pleasure
WOW Really Paul? wrote:Appleseed wrote:FWIW, all those are most likely preserved on YouTube for your viewing pleasureSilverFleet wrote:The Wings channel was the high water mark of all TV.Appleseed wrote: Remember when it was the HitlerChannel? Good times.You guys remember Discovery Wings? That was another cool channel. They had Wings over the Luftwaffe, which was fascinating.
Nope, they are all gone:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/MQCBJOVTzLY?list=PLFYlL0o9hyTg_JxgjY9XcQpKBCi3fu-Fc
Just kidding.
Jerry From LA wrote:pkingham wrote: In reply to Jerry From LA: So what's that say about MTV?Pandora killed the video star.
YouTube killed the video channel.
Duke wrote:Appleseed wrote: Remember when it was the HitlerChannel? Good times.My sister used to say that THC was rebroadcasting WWII in real time.
There's actually a YouTube series that's sorta doing this, but for WWI! 
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar
I haven't watched in a while, but the goal was to do videos 100 years after the event actually happened. Pretty cool!
alfadriver wrote:mattmacklind wrote:Wings was cool. But with a finite amount of airplanes out there, they ran out of subjects to talk about pretty quick.Appleseed wrote:Agreed. In the early days they also showed inside marketing films for defense products, which was way cool.SilverFleet wrote:The Wings channel was the high water mark of all TV.Appleseed wrote: Remember when it was the HitlerChannel? Good times.You guys remember Discovery Wings? That was another cool channel. They had Wings over the Luftwaffe, which was fascinating.
That reminds me of the magazine called “Affordable Flying”…bhahaha, let that sink in for a moment.
"This month in Affordable Flying, we put the venerable Tri-Pacer through its moves and in next month’s issue we’ll…um…um…we’ll get back to you on that."
The original Speedvision was great, particularly for the first month or two until they really got rolling and could sell some advertising. They would fill their ad space with old British car ads.
I wish more channels would do that, instead of subjecting us to the same commercial twice per break, every break.
Newfoundland TV Network shows music videos (or chunks of them) when they don't have ads sold. Don't ask how I know about NTV.
I also come down in favor of History showing stuff about history.
Ian F wrote:Jerry From LA wrote:YouTube killed the video channel.pkingham wrote: In reply to Jerry From LA: So what's that say about MTV?Pandora killed the video star.
My answer referenced the very first minutes of programming on MTV which was The Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star." MTV did provide a new way to break the stranglehold radio had on breaking bands. They in turn were broken by both Pandora and youTube which allows bands to cut out the middleman entirely, yet receive national exposure.
You bastards. I spent three hours watching Wings of the Red Star yesterday.
92dxman wrote: What is that Pluto.tv?
Pluto.TV is pretty much a channel guide for streaming video channels. The channels are out there, but finding them isn't always easy. Pluto pulls them all into a cable guide type interface. I love it. You won't get ESPN and it isn't on-demand, but I'm hooked on the MST3K channel and Sky News.
I still have H2. Is this thread from the future?
akamcfly wrote: I still have H2. Is this thread from the future?
I've had Viceland for 10 days now.. H2 is gone.. perhaps your program guide isn't up to date..
akamcfly wrote: I still have H2. Is this thread from the future?
No. We're ghosts. Don't make us haunt you.
One annoying thing that I have noticed since the switch over of H2 to Viceland is that my tuner (Dish Hopper) is always on that channel when it restarts after it's annoying nightly system updates or if i don't watch TV for 12 hours or so. I have never even watched that channel, but Dish seems to want me to..
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