How about a TV Show

[Old Dust]

There are all types of woodworking TV shows, routing, furniture building, etc. How about Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts starting a Scroll saw show?

John


Old Dust

[Paul S WI]

Hmm, and maybe take it on the road. Visit one scroller per week in their workshop and tape them as they create a project explaining what they do and how they do it. With all they great projects I've seen in the gallery there would be enough shows for several years +.

Here is a wicked idea - Surprise visit to a scrollers shop!!

Question is who would do the show? And if it was a road show - who would get to travel?

Paul S.

[lucky788scroller]

My shop is to dirty, and will never be "as seen on tv!!"

[bearfretworks]

Originally Posted by lucky788scroller

My shop is to dirty, and will never be "as seen on tv!!"

That is EXACTLY why Paul S's idea is perfect! Great idea Old Dust!!!

[Gill]

This is an inspired thread .

As broadband internet connections become increasingly common, the future of the broadcast media is seen as moving towards a digital format. Within the next few years, analogue television will be completely phased out within the UK and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has just announced that it is to restructure itself so as to be ready for this. Those of you who are interested can read more about it here. The BBC isn't the only organisation to see the future as being digital; for example, our principal telephone company, BT, has just launched a range of products that are designed to meet this future and so has the satellite television broadcaster, Sky.

Toni recently asked if pattern makers threatened the future of scrollsaw magazines and most of us seemed to concur that they didn't. However, the format of magazines such as SSW almost certainly is likely to change. Imagine how attractive it would be to have SSW projects broadcast over the internet or digital television alongside plans which could be printed off. I'm not talking about the quality of video that's prevalent on the internet now - I'm talking about television quality.

What's more, we'd have all our plans and articles stored on databases, either on our own computers or on the publishers system so that we could search and access them without having to wade through dozens of old magazines. From my point of view it would be a boon getting my 'magazine' at the same time as everyone else .

This technology isn't a fantasy, something for the future - it's already arrived in many parts of the world.

So to answer John's original question, I suspect that SSW&C will probably have little option but to adopt a broadcast format if it is to prosper.

Gill

[GrayBeard Phil]

Link:
http://thewoodworkingchannel.com/

best with Cable, DSL, or ADSL speed.

Phil

[Neal Moore]

AHHHHH!! Nothing beats settling down in your favorite easy chair on winter evenings turning the pages on a good laptop!!! LOL!! Ain't technology grand??

[Gill]

That'll just just be one option though, Neil. You'll also be able to watch magazine articles being broadcast on TV and, if you want to have a bash, choose to have the plans dashed out on your own printer.

Imagine, if you will, watching Toni as she takes you through a segmentation project in the same way that New Yankee Norm takes you through the construction of a table. Only you'll be able to choose close-ups and different camera angles using your interactive control, pause when it's convenient to you, send email to ask for clarification if necessary, and probably a host of other things as well.

I agree that there's something lovely and tactile about paper magazines, but I can see a time coming when these will be mere supplements to broadcast media - if they're produced at all. It seems that the 'younger' generation has a greater affinity for screens and monitors than it has for books and magazines.

Gill

[Old Mooner]

I agree with you Neal, but unfortunately Gill is correct concerning the "younger" generation. They lose interest quickly and most of them can't stand to read. My internet economics classes always filled up before the standard lecture/textbook classes. The strange thing is that more books are being published and sold today than at any other time. I, personally, hate the idea of reading "text messages" on a so-called telephone or reading an "electronic" or "e-book", but I am, admittedly elderly. Magazines are going to have to "get with it" if they want to attract new subscribers. They may lose me, but I'm obsolete.
Moon

[CanadianScroller]

I would like to say I love Gill's concept and if I had the money I would surely back something like this. Specially with the close ups and pause features.
The computer does offer that "hands on let me see it the way I want to" approach.

I know magazines will never disappear. We have access to over 18 thousand free books at Project Gutenberg Yet people continue to buy the classics.
One of the reasons people still buy books... because they can have hands on see it when I want to.

Marshall McLuhan, said "The Medium is the Message". we will all absorb the knowledge we desire from the medium we prefer. I love the forum with its interaction, something I will never get from a book. I love sitting down reading the pages of the magazine we all wait for like children expecting a Christmas present.

Like I said in another post. I don't even mind the advertising, without it I would not know all there is to offer.

I imagine a streaming video production will take more of my time and I would enjoy it in it's own rite. If the written word, hear in the forum makes us feel like a family imagine the impact of seeing the faces and actions of our friends online.

Phils link shows us what is available already.

I do not see this happening for SSWC in the near future, the cost of production compared to the return is just too wide spread. I do look forward to seeing it when it happens though.