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Originally Posted by usradcoll1
I'm looking for DVD's of the entire series of the Secret Life of Machines.
I wonder if it's available of the US BBC website?
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It wasn't a BBC TV series, so they are unlikely to have it. It was made for Channel 4 Television, another national public broadcaster in the UK. The Discovery Channel also showed it. I'm not sure if any DVDs were produced commercially - a quick search on amazon.co.uk didn't find any. However, some years ago, the series creator Tim Hunkin gave permission for the series to be downloaded freely. There were several sites from which you could download every episode. The only one that still seems to work is
https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/SLOM/index.html
Choose an episode, Right-click on the video, then select "Save video as..."
The video files are .mp4 format. Some DVD and blu-ray players can display these files directly from a disc or USB drive. Otherwise you'll have to convert them to DVD-Video using a DVD authoring program (there are both free and paid software packages that can do this.)