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Title: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: weatherfan789 on January 25, 2009, 12:46:04 PM
Here are some videos of a 4000 still operating in 2009. The star is located on the Auburn University campus cable system and seems to be in pretty good condition. Its pretty cool since it still has the exact same configuration as the city of Auburn's 4000 that I lost around 2000.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: Alejandro on January 25, 2009, 12:48:09 PM
Awesome 4000 clips thank you for recording these :o, I wish there still was a 4000 around where i live. ( i will also make a config for you area when i get the chance ;) )
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: Localonthe8s on January 25, 2009, 12:49:56 PM
Cool clips. There is no apparent degradation. Do you have any older videos of this 4000?
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: Zach on January 25, 2009, 12:50:47 PM
Sweet clips! :biggrin:
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: weatherfan789 on January 25, 2009, 01:01:02 PM
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Do you have any older videos of this 4000?
Sadly, I don't. I just discovered this one when I started college last fall. I never recorded any of the older stars from the city of Auburn.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: toxictwister00 on January 25, 2009, 01:01:57 PM
Those are fantastic 4000 clips and in great quality too! :biggrin:

EDIT: I never seen a icon used for AM clouds on a 4000 before. :o
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: weatherfan789 on January 25, 2009, 01:06:09 PM
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I never seen a icon used for AM clouds on a 4000 before.
It appears quite often down here, especially in the fall and winter.

I have some more videos but it appears they're about 1-2 mb over the attachment limit.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: Zach on January 25, 2009, 01:11:31 PM
Why not upload it to Youtube? :dunno:
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: Stephen on January 25, 2009, 01:16:10 PM
Awesome! Thanks for posting! :biggrin:
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: Localonthe8s on January 25, 2009, 01:20:44 PM
Why not upload it to Youtube? :dunno:
I think he has his reasons.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: tpirfan28 on January 25, 2009, 02:27:17 PM
AMAZING quality!
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: lfmusiclover on January 25, 2009, 04:44:51 PM
Great clips! Thanks weatherfan!  :biggrin: B)
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: WeatherSTARIII on January 26, 2009, 10:08:27 PM
Thanks for the videos! You are so lucky having a 4000!
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: weatherfan789 on January 28, 2009, 06:09:22 PM
Youtube has not exactly been very friendly to me over the years... but I am working on getting a clip of the station ID up for you guys.

Also if you're wondering about the 4000 LDL, the one and only time I've seen it was during Hurricane Ike when it came on for like 2 mins
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: Gil on January 28, 2009, 08:20:34 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.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: Stephen 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:
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: jtmal0723 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...
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: WeatherSTARIII 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?
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: Gil 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.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: SpongeStorm4000 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.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: weatherfan789 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?
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: beanboy89 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.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: WeatherSTARIII 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.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: weatherfan789 on February 04, 2009, 03:20:44 PM
Here's another video featuring the station ID and no moon data in the almanac.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: LFMusicFan 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?
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: weatherfan789 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.
Title: Re: WeatherStar 4000 videos
Post by: TWCToday on July 01, 2009, 03:40:50 AM
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