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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #15 on: January 28, 2009, 08:25:09 PM »
Very nice, but the text doesn't line up correctly w/ the graphics. They need to make the on-air appearance more "backwards compatible" with older STARs.
That's not a top priority for them because 1) The 4000/Jr. LDL is rarely cued and 2) The 4000 and Jr. isn't very common (compared to the IS). So I highly doubt they will ever do that. :no:

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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2009, 08:27:10 PM »
They make it more compatible for the IntelliStar/WeatherStar XL, as they comprise like (random round number I'm pulling out my ass) 90% of the country? I don't think they see it as a priority unfortunately...

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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #17 on: January 28, 2009, 10:17:44 PM »
I still think having those pop ups are so annoying. How can they see the date and time if either a 4000 or Jr. is being used?
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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2009, 06:27:44 PM »
they should go back to Prior-2003, where the XL bar wasn't necessarily on all the time. For example, a lower-third would be in the same horizontal plane as the LDL, and the LDL would discontinue itself when a lower third was displayed, and resume when it was finished.
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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #19 on: January 30, 2009, 07:20:41 AM »
That's great that you found a Star 4000 on a college campus in Alabama. At least it didn't suffer the way the 4000 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas did. This 4000 is in good condition for it's age. I'm guessing this one was installed sometime in the mid 1990s, since most older Star 4000s usually degrade after years of use. The problem with most Star 4000s are that they tend to have glitches (black clouds as a result of unfinished icon layering, especially on the Current Conditions, and Extended Forecast pages.) which have little to no impact. The video I saw on YouTube of a Weather Star 4000 on hot summer afternoon in Topeka, Kansas looked like an acid trip because of the degradation caused by the searing heat back in 2006, and with "Sunday" by Moby playing in the background.

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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2009, 12:01:20 PM »
I agree they should do something about the LDL, but what's even more annoying is when we get the full red screen warnings and you just hear the audio from the background. They've been appearing a lot lately too-- why does something minor like a lake wind advisory cause this to come up?

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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2009, 12:22:26 PM »
Those full screen scrolls are the original way the 4000 (and III and Jr) showed all advisories, watches, and warnings. Then at some point in the early 1990s (1991, or 1992, I believe), they introduced the red strip crawl at the bottom of the screen, which was only used for warnings. Watch and advisory bulletins still continued to make use of the full-screen scroll.
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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #22 on: February 02, 2009, 11:59:09 PM »
Those full screen scrolls are the original way the 4000 (and III and Jr) showed all advisories, watches, and warnings. Then at some point in the early 1990s (1991, or 1992, I believe), they introduced the red strip crawl at the bottom of the screen, which was only used for warnings. Watch and advisory bulletins still continued to make use of the full-screen scroll.
I don't think TWC started using the red strip until 1993. I once saw an old TWC promo from 1993 that first mentions about the red strip. Recently, I couldn't find were that video went.
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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #23 on: February 04, 2009, 03:20:44 PM »
Here's another video featuring the station ID and no moon data in the almanac.

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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #24 on: February 08, 2009, 05:38:23 PM »
I agree they should do something about the LDL, but what's even more annoying is when we get the full red screen warnings and you just hear the audio from the background. They've been appearing a lot lately too-- why does something minor like a lake wind advisory cause this to come up?
Do you have a video of that?
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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #25 on: February 10, 2009, 12:07:23 PM »
I don't have a video yet, but I'll try to get a clip if I see one again.

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Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
« Reply #26 on: July 01, 2009, 03:40:50 AM »
thank you very much for your contributions. they have been added to the website