Motor Trend TV

[sweetolbob]

I posted this on another post but I thought I'd add it here as I'm pretty happy with the site for $5/mo, Well!! actually free for 6 months.

All of those are on Motortrend TV. Car Craft went toes up and the publishing house offered to fill my subscription with Motor Trend and give me 6 months of MTTV free as a buyout. I never thought I'd subscribe to MT but when the subscription is up I'll probably continue for the $5/mo it costs. Why, they have all their shows archived so you can go back as far as Biker Buildoff if you want and the new shows are available the day they air. NO COMMERCIALS either. Just 43 min of show.

The app is a little clunky to get around but the shows play flawlessly.

I think I just saw they have a $2/mo special. An SOB recommendation.

Bob

[Bob Andrews]

I have enjoyed motor trend TV for sometime. I love a lot of the car shows when I get a chance to watch them.

This is the beginning of what paid television is going to have to evolve into. Disney+ and motor trend are setting the trend. After 20 years I canceled my dish network because I got tired of paying for 120 channels when I only ever looked at five or six. I had three channels that were 100% Spanish-speaking, and I don’t speak Spanish! These days all I want is local channels for news and weather, and being able to handpick what other channels I want al a carte.

When I canceled dish network, of course they go all out to try to get you to stay. She asked why I was canceling and I told her that no matter how many times they adjusted my channel package I still was paying $90 per month for like five or six channels. She asked if there was anything she could do to get me do not cancel, and I said, let me buy the channels I want à la carte. She said all, that just will never be possible. I said, OK, television is not life to me, so unless they do that I won’t be back.

And now it looks like that is what is starting to happen.

[345 DeSoto]

When Cable came through, decades ago, that's how you got your programs. You got to choose which ones YOU wanted, not a "package"...

[Metman]

My Hagerty car insurance renewal with their "Drivers Club" level membership, included a free year of MotorTrend On Demand. Been enjoying it. Would be nice if it was included if you are already paying for having MotorTrend TV as part of your cable/ satellite package (like many of us...).

[wittsend]

I have Motor Trend TV as part of my TV package. What I find is:

1. Most of the shows I have little interest in. Too much "Hey, Wow, Look at THIS!" which is often much ado about nothing. Too much contrived drama. The whole deadline scenario is bogus. There is another post going on regarding the Fantom Works Avanti. I think that says it all. https://forum.studebakerdriversclub....1-fantom-works

2. The re-run factor is utterly absurd. When I was a kid you saw the original release of TV show, you saw it in that year summer re-run and then you didn't see it again until it went into syndication. There was typically 5-10 year gap for viewing after the first summer re-run. Most of these shows re-run 50-100 times a year. And they do it for years after years. Often any (rare) "new" episodes are only 4-8 shows long. I hardly find a show that I haven't seen before. The Roadkill shows that showed up within the past year were free on You Tube so it isn't like you are getting something new. These shows are cheap to make and someone is making a LOT of money on all the re-runs.

3. Many of the shows are for the least common denominator. Like NASCAR and the NHRA (especially Pro Stock) shows are the type to draw numbers, not enthusiast. There are exceptions but they are few.

I was THRILLED when Velocity (Motor Trend TV) first launched but sadly it got stale very fast. If you are new to Motor Trend perhaps you don't see it the way I do. In the 60's we had less than 10 free channels. Now my $90 a month buys me 320 channels and I can't say I have any more that I watch.

[64V19816]

My TV situation. No cable, no dish. Old School antennae on the roof. Enough channels for me, and FREE. We have our iPhones, with a little cable that hooks to HDMI. We watch You Tube a lot, my wife likes the off the grid RV people, I’m hooked on Barn Find First Startup videos. This is all FREE too. The bonus here is my favorite network is now NHK, that’s Japanese public TV. Hourly news NOT controlled by US political parties, interesting shows.••••••I estimate I’ve saved over $5000 using the Antennea. https://www.nhk.or.jp/kawaii-i/index.html

[sweetolbob]

I have Motor Trend TV as part of my TV package. What I find is:

1. Most of the shows I have little interest in. Too much "Hey, Wow, Look at THIS!" which is often much ado about nothing. Too much contrived drama. The whole deadline scenario is bogus. There is another post going on regarding the Fantom Works Avanti. I think that says it all. https://forum.studebakerdriversclub....1-fantom-works

2. The re-run factor is utterly absurd. When I was a kid you saw the original release of TV show, you saw it in that year summer re-run and then you didn't see it again until it went into syndication. There was typically 5-10 year gap for viewing after the first summer re-run. Most of these shows re-run 50-100 times a year. And they do it for years after years. Often any (rare) "new" episodes are only 4-8 shows long. I hardly find a show that I haven't seen before. The Roadkill shows that showed up within the past year were free on You Tube so it isn't like you are getting something new. These shows are cheap to make and someone is making a LOT of money on all the re-runs.

3. Many of the shows are for the least common denominator. Like NASCAR and the NHRA (especially Pro Stock) shows are the type to draw numbers, not enthusiast. There are exceptions but they are few.

I was THRILLED when Velocity (Motor Trend TV) first launched but sadly it got stale very fast. If you are new to Motor Trend perhaps you don't see it the way I do. In the 60's we had less than 10 free channels. Now my $90 a month buys me 320 channels and I can't say I have any more that I watch.

I guess it's all "in the eye of the beholder". I've had MT/Velocity TV since it was on the air. I have strong negative feelings about many of the shows but some (Texas Metal, Full Custom Garage, sometimes Kindig and a couple others) carry on with minimal angst and do excellent work.

Texas metal has become my favorite as the show does great work (full new suspension to lift a new Ford Platinum pickup 20 in, as an example) and develops the employees as folks not just a frantic push to meet a schedule. On the show with the Ford pickup, Bill (shop owner) spent several minutes explaining how he designed and set up the new suspension so it held alignment, carried the weight and eliminated bump steer.

Those shows and no commercials are well worth the $5/mo to me. Other's results will vary.

Bob

[Colgate Studebaker]

Six months ago we switched from Dish to Spectrum and we now have the 300+ channels that we only use about 10, Motortrend being one of them. It got stale after about a month and I rarely watch it anymore. We'd love to put up an antennae but we're about 75 miles from the nearest broadcaster and we'd need a 40 foot tower to get over the trees. I'd like to do it but I don't think it would work out well. Bill

[64V19816]

75 miles is a stretch, but a lot of new antennas can do it. My dad had a tower which never got put up. As a kid, it was a NASA rocket. We laid it it and pretended we were flying! Copy That Houston! The best thing about the OTA (over the air) signal is that it is uncompressed (as a cable signal Is). The FACT that this signal exists and All flat screen televisions can use it by simply sticking in the antennas cable is a hidden secret. Most people don’t even realize this option exists. •••••. This $9 gizmo is a curved fresnel screen, you set the phone in, get about 6 feet away, and now ya got a TV!