Re: Petition to stop SIMPLY Quilts from airing only once a day

The ones we have had already have worked fine, Kathy. I think something has been equalised on the televisions; and the tapes we received were in VHS format. So we could watch them without any problem. . In article , Kathy Applebaum writes

My daughter in Melbourne has a dual (or whatever it's called) VCR which plays both NTSC and PAL tapes, so she can watch our format. It's cheaper for me, not having to find someone who can copy from one format to the other..

rusty

It's 10:46pm in Central Daylight Savings Time on Sat, Aug 2, and the signatures are up to 2018!

WOOHOO! Elena, No. 2018

Nah, Matt Hayes is great! I can plonk my darling BF in front of him for 30 mins and only be bothered during the ad break while I go and do something!

I swear, it's like having a child.

Charlie.

Please be cautious ladies and gentlemen. Don't sign this petition 'pushed' by sammybuys and others who have commercial interests in selling products on E-bay etc. In order to stay alive and keep presentations for other sucjects and hobbies HGTV obviously needs to present broader forums to those interested in subjects that produce money to TV production. We need no more than perhaps twice a week of Simply Quilts. This woman is a self-promoter with not much to present other than herself. HGTV is aware of this and of her limited audience. The company will make great decisions for you to view and that appeal to a larger group of people. The audience is far larger on these home type programs...think of Christopher on PBS with his decorating show. The most popular program of its kind. This is the type of program HGTV needs in order to become a major producer. Brigid

Brigid,

Please don't try to get a fight started over this. People will sign a petition if they like Simply Quilts whether or not someone is selling junk on Ebay. As IF that was any incentive. Good grief.

We are always cautious ladies and gentlemen.

I've been sending tapes for several years to people who had VCRs that could do US typt tapes. I'm now looking for a new 'puter with DVD writer. HOWEVER -- DS2 says that I should check how many DVD zones there are -- seems that Disney/hollywood doesn't want DVDs copied so they were going to divide the world into zones that could only play DVDs with their zone type of system. I'd like to know if I can do DVDs for everywhere. I want to do SQ on DVDs to send to everyone.

Mim

There are specific zones now. I live on the west coast of the US, and am in zone 1. If you look on the back of the commercially produced DVD's in your area, you'll see a little symbol with a number in it on the back of the case, that'll tell you what zone you're in.

Excuse me, but HGTV is not free. We pay extra to our cable companies to get access to that channel and the discovery channel and all the "specialty" channels.

The Stations should be told by the viewers which shows we love (and hate) because if they don't know how to please us they will lose many of us as viewers. BTW I grew bored of Christopher Lowell long ago He isn't on PBS he is on Discovery channel. His newest format sucks. The number of decorating shows on cable is going through the roof. However, there are very few sewing shows, and that doesn't make sense. Most of the decorating shows have segments where people are making their own pillows and drapes and slip covers, yet they aren't giving any sewing lessons. Gee, thanks for the inspiration, now how about some step by step advice?

In the mean time we are at the mercy of PBS for bringing us shows like Fons and Porter, Quilt in a day,Seww much fun, Sew Beautiful, and America Sews. However we are lucky if we get each of these programs once a week and it depends on if our local pbs carries them. My local pbs in NYC is channal13 and they don't have the shows mentioned, but my cable provider brings in 2 other PBS station (21 &25) from long island and they do sometimes have the sewing and quilting shows.

The only other show we have right now on cable is sew much more on DIY, and her focus is clothing.

We want and need more sewing shows. If you want to watch Christopher Lowell instead, its a free world. Enjoy it. Don't tell us though that we should rely upon "The company will make great decisions for you to view and that appeal to a larger group of people.". We have a right to let the company know that they do have a large audience for this show. The petition is already at 3959 signatures! As the word spreads through the various news groups and private e-mail lists it will continue to grow, and hopefully hgtv will reconsider what programming they choose to offer, because ultimately if they don't please the audience, the audience goes elsewhere, and then they lose advertising dollars!

BTW she is not what I consider a self promoter. If you ever watched the show you would see that she has different guests on almost every episode to showcase and explain new techniques and ideas. I tune in to see her guests.

Rebecca ( and yes I signed the petition!)

Howdy! All the other stuff aside, friendly snipping having occurred, please note that we are not totally at the mercy of PBS for deciding on their own whether or not to broadcast quilt shows. As a viewer, as a group of viewers, it's our choice. And money talks. Our quilt guild and those guilds in next door cities provide some funding for several quilt shows. We ask, we support, we watch. We put it in our annual budget. Quilters around the Metroplex (Ft.Worth-Dallas) call in their pledges, send in their money, and note that "it's for quilting programs" on the check. We get quilt shows at least 5 days a week. PBS does not produce the quilt shows we love; they buy them or are provided them from the quiltmakers. It's up to the viewers to ask for them if they're missing. That's no guarantee, of course, but when the money shows up , so do the shows. That's how PBS works.

As for Simply Quilts, I don't really care if it stays around or not. Of course the host is self-promoting; she's the host! Why else put her face out there? Thing is, she's also got the advertisers and the clout behind her to promote quilting. Go, Alex!

Ragmop/Sandy

As a (very tiny) example - Here in Los Angeles, the primary PBS station, KCET, doesn't carry any of the sewing and quilting shows. KOCE in nearby Orange County, DOES. We only get KOCE on cable, but my wife has insisted for years that we support and donate to KOCE. With every check we write to them, we include a short note telling them why; at the same time, when we get KCET's incessant requests, we reply and tell them why they're NOT receiving our support.

- Herb

Ellis>

There used to be a PBS station in Huntington Beach that carried more than KCET. I lived in Covina then, but could still pick it with my rooftop antenna. A co-worker lived in La Habra and installed a second antenna especially for that station (he linked the two and used an A/B switch).

Pretty annoying, isn't it?

Went to that website you posted....very interesting....very interesting indeed. I'm sure i wouldn't do it, but it's still an interesting concept. I personally feel the region coding is rather silly. Hopefully it'll go the way of the DoDo

It sure was in my case -- I wasn't looking to buy DVDs that were cheaper, I was looking for DVDs that just weren't available in the US. :(

I didn't know a thing about regions. I would have been royally unhappy to have discovered this after buying a 'non-working' DVD. Thanks so much for sharing that with us!

Elena in Tx

I just taped them on my plain old VCR. I did them at slow speed so that there are only 4 episodes on the tape (I think with fast speed I could have gotten 8). I did that hoping the quality would be better.

I sent off about 12 tapes the first time and have heard good things from people who saw them.

I mailed off another 10 or so a couple weeks ago. Hopefully they will be there soon - or have already arrived.

marcella

The quality was great, Marcella. Thank you so much. They gave a great deal of pleasure to us all, and certainly taught me a lot. . In article , Marcella Tracy Peek writes