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Title: IntelliSTAR Gone Mad (during severe weather, of course)...
Post by: P71nnacle on June 23, 2010, 11:16:55 PM

Today, we had some severe thunderstorms move through. Prior to the issuances of watches and warnings, Comcast's IntelliSTAR (#26280 for reference) went offline for a few minutes (probably a reboot of the system, but could have been anything - jumbled satellite signal, irresponsible janitor switching off the fusebox), but when it comes back and has to play "catch-up", some weird things happen.

I caught some of the events on my DVR, which was running but not recording at the time the "mayhem" began. Random warning tones and several warnings piled up on top of one another quickly, as the IS was probably digesting all of the warnings that were issued in the prior moments. Then, I hit Record about 1/2 way through, and watch what happens.

Video here: The IntelliSTAR Has Gone Mad! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVQBCp74iE#)

Note the random music bits cutting in and out, narrations overlapping each other, and random slides interspersed with national segments (Flavor X, I guess). Too much stuff to describe here (although if you're really dedicated, you could make a moment-by-moment of this video). A couple of people have already commented...hope you guys get a laugh out of it.

Title: Re: IntelliSTAR Gone Mad (during severe weather, of course)...
Post by: texasstooge on June 23, 2010, 11:28:01 PM

Oh dear! My IntelliStar has NEVER gone THAT insane! Excellent capture!

I've opened that video in a seperate window and I've noticed there's that little soccer icon on the YouTube player. Click on that and the IntelliStar will REALLY go nuts! :rofl2:

Title: Re: IntelliSTAR Gone Mad (during severe weather, of course)...
Post by: ABC7 on June 24, 2010, 12:54:33 AM

I'm beginning to think that ancient Weather STAR 4000's are more stable than the IntelliSTAR. Modern-day computers can't run stably compared to dated ones.

Title: Re: IntelliSTAR Gone Mad (during severe weather, of course)...
Post by: Jake on June 24, 2010, 01:09:36 AM

Mine has shown the national segment in between local radars, but never have I experienced a narration problem.

Title: Re: IntelliSTAR Gone Mad (during severe weather, of course)...
Post by: TWCToday on June 24, 2010, 05:15:10 AM

Probably somewhere it got some corrupted data that wonked out its rendering sequence.

Title: Re: IntelliSTAR Gone Mad (during severe weather, of course)...
Post by: twcfan68 on June 24, 2010, 10:41:44 AM

Well, you would know, Martin.  B)

Excellent capture! My IS has had its moments, but that one was going absolutely nuts!

Title: Re: IntelliSTAR Gone Mad (during severe weather, of course)...
Post by: 4000 weatherman on June 29, 2010, 02:56:19 PM

It was playing two lfs over each other! That is really neat!