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Thanks, ebeth! That's great! I would really love to find out that Physicus would work for us. It just sounds PERFECT for our plans for this year!!!

we have Crazy machines (Mac) and the boys really enjoy it.

Thanks e-beth! Will check out Crazy machines, but I really should be saving up for NXT!

Back to Bill Nye...This is what the e-mail said about the deal:


Does that help any? It made it seem clearer to me, I think.

15% off is still pricey, as they normally cost nearly $50! (The e-mail didn't say that!) And they need to sell 501 individual shows to get the price down to 40% off, or under $30. For the length of the shows, that's probably not worth it to me.

Bummer. I wonder why they're so expensive? Most videos of this sort aren't that much!

I'm guessing they're so expensive because Disney bought them. I seem to remember a while back when these were available free on the internet somewhere.

Incidentally, since i was a sucker when DS was born, and felt low on disney classics, i signed up for the disney movie club. There are about 5 bill nye dvds on the club now, for $21.95, and there's a buy-one-get-one at 40% off deal right now. they'll probably add more/change these titles at some point. If you feel like signing up for the club, and i can use you as a refer a friend (so i get a free movie) send me a pm! Of course you can sign up without me. I think you get like 10 movies free when you sign up - don't know if these include bill nyes or not.

I want the physicus and such too!

Discovery Streaming has Bill Nye video. It's on the computer rather than TV but you cannot beat the price. BTW Kriston you may even find math history movies there.

I looked at it, but I'm not sure I want to spend the money there. I need some things I can put on the TV, not just the computer if I'm going to get any writing done.

I'm still thinking about the Discovery Streaming though. How much would we have to watch to get our $129 worth, I wonder, especially since we already have two PBS stations, Discovery, Discovery Kids, the History Channel, the Science channel, etc.?

Hmmm...

Discovery Streaming is a nice curriculum supplement. I think the main difference is that Discovery Streaming has lots of movies available immediately. For some reason TV doesn't seem too co-operative with my "Let's see if we can find something about ..." You know like watching the launch of Saturn V as we did the other day. I could look at the TV guide and see if there is something the kids may like and go from there, but I also want to be able to see things they are interested in right away.

The other nice thing is that Discovery Streaming will find the segment you are interested in and you don't have to watch the whole movie. You are done in 5 minutes which is not what you are looking for but it is something I like.

We a game called Contraptions that sounds pretty similar to Crazy Machine. I hadn't even thought about letting DS6 try it. DH had it from before we had kids and had time to sit around playing computer games together (ah, those were the days, lol).

Thanks, LMom. That's a very helpful review. Can you burn them to a CD or DVD and play them on TV? Or only on the computer?

I'm still seriously considering buying. DH says, "Go ahead. It's only $129." But I keep thinking that $129 here, $69.95 there...pretty soon it adds up to the cost of the GT school's tuition!

But other than Physicus, I think this is the last more-than-pocket-change purchase I'm really considering, so maybe I'll just do it.