The Secret Life Of Machines and The Office, iPhone format

Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod show how umpteen everyday machines work. Tim Hunkin is the copyright holder of this show, and he officially supports free distribution of it: http://www.timhunkin.com/48_secretlifeofmachines3.htm So unlike just about everything else on The Pirate Bay, it's actually LEGAL to download this! These episodes originally came from The Exploratorium's Web site: http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2007/10/31/secret-life-of-machines-update-update/ They're in iPhone 480 by 360, 30-frame-per-second M4V video format, which is easy to play on Windows/Linux/Mac as well as on the iPhone. (If you have a problem, just use VLC Media Player.)

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bizzybody (2012-05-25)

The episode "The Car" has a field order problem about 2/3 of the way through, continuing to the end. :(
Haven't been able to find a good copy of that episode anywhere, unless the 640x480 Quicktime version is good. Unfortunately those haven't been available on the Exploratorium site for years.

dansdata (2012-07-29)

Dammit, you're right - that's irritating.
I see the problem starting around 19:40 of 25:50, though, so it's only actually polluting about a fifth of the episode, and the audio's fine. If I get a better version of this episode I'll make a separate torrent of it.

ClipperCigars (2012-09-04)

The car video on Exploratorium was messed up too. I grabbed them years ago when they were available. Also, they do still have the videos online, but only the Iphone and 3GPP phone versions. So does http://sciencezero.4hv.org/tslom.htm
The problem is the source was bad. I vaguely remember Tim talking about it on a forum where the original BBC tapes got destroyed and all that was left were copies with the bad episode.
So unless someone has a videotape they recorded of the original broadcast or very early rerun and they are willing to dig it out and cap it for everyone, than no, there is no good version of The Car to be had and never will be. :(