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Offline TWCJim

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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #510 on: October 14, 2015, 12:33:10 AM »
The Low 999º glitch that was happening earlier this evening has also affected Weatherscan as well. Just checked multiple photos posted on TWC's Facebook page to confirm this.
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #511 on: November 04, 2015, 04:17:16 PM »
btw, I went to bed earlier on Saturday night but set my DVR, and on cue... time change problems like always. Starts only at 1am EST when the main window and bottom of the L-bar failed. Eventually, the whole background but the conditions ticker failed (1:02:02am EST). Finally failed out to the TWC SD feed at 1:02 EST, stayed there for a few seconds and went into full reboot. It returned to normal promptly at 1:03:03am.

I'll hopefully have a video up Friday night when I get back home. (I just checked it from my SlingPlayer today.)
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #512 on: November 05, 2015, 10:11:12 PM »
Quote from: Evan2015 on November 04, 2015, 04:17:16 PM
btw, I went to bed earlier on Saturday night but set my DVR, and on cue... time change problems like always. Starts only at 1am EST when the main window and bottom of the L-bar failed. Eventually, the whole background but the conditions ticker failed (1:02:02am EST). Finally failed out to the TWC SD feed at 1:02 EST, stayed there for a few seconds and went into full reboot. It returned to normal promptly at 1:03:03am.

I'll hopefully have a video up Friday night when I get back home. (I just checked it from my SlingPlayer today.)
I recorded mine overnight that night but it had no issues for once.
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #513 on: November 06, 2015, 11:42:11 PM »
Here's the video:
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #514 on: November 07, 2015, 12:03:57 AM »
Y'know, I'm kind of curious to know why some units glitch during time change and then other units aren't affected by the time change. Does it depend on the cable headend?  :thinking:
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #515 on: November 07, 2015, 03:32:28 AM »
Quote from: Weatherman99 on November 07, 2015, 12:03:57 AM
Y'know, I'm kind of curious to know why some units glitch during time change and then other units aren't affected by the time change. Does it depend on the cable headend?  :thinking:
Quite possibly could be due to age, even though I've seen more than one headend unit do this and it's been doing it for a few years. Even after new parts (last December) it's done this twice now (springing forward and falling back).
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #516 on: November 10, 2015, 09:15:05 PM »
The narration has been discontinued and Jim Cantore narrates when there is a severe weather bulletin only. An unexpected change.
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #517 on: November 10, 2015, 09:16:00 PM »
All narrations are gone and replaced with Cantore on bulletin http://youtu.be/rqRO63-lQ6E
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #518 on: November 10, 2015, 09:59:46 PM »
Hmmm, it's kinda strange how The Weather Channel would just discontinue all of the Amy Bargeron Vocal Local, but add a new Jim Cantore narration only to the Weather Bulletin product.  :huh:  I wonder if TWC will add more of Cantore's narrations to Weatherscan later. Who knows?  :dunno:
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #519 on: November 10, 2015, 10:40:18 PM »
That does seem odd. I haven't yet heard Jim on mine thanks to the quiet weather, though that might change tomorrow night. Not sure how good of a tuner clip I would get over my sling box, but I could try.

Weatherscan's had that narration for over 10 years now and I've had it on in the background a lot in that time, it's genuinely out of place to not hear the narration. I wonder if this means the beginning of narration of warnings too and perhaps a change in alert tone...
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #520 on: November 10, 2015, 10:46:55 PM »
i find it kind of surprising to hear there are no female announcements anymore, and for right now, the music is playing cleanly without vocal interruption!

Also, I wonder how abandoned weatherscan really is if they sent an update to it!
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #521 on: November 11, 2015, 03:45:40 AM »
Tried to record longer but it came out to 1 min

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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #522 on: November 27, 2015, 02:51:28 PM »
So my Weatherscan has been having an interesting error lately. I'm going to contact someone on Star Support about this at a later time.
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Music was inserted by me because my tuner didn't record any audio.
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #523 on: December 23, 2015, 07:33:28 PM »
In a monumentally stupid decision, TWC seems to have disabled straight passthrough of NWS warnings to the unit. A severe thunderstorm warning was issued just west of here and the ticker just says "a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for a portion of the viewing area. Remember if a severe thunderstorm threatens; take shelter indoors. Stay away from windows." The alert tone has been updated to match the IS2 while Cantore narrates the text. Why was this in any way necessary?
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Re: Weatherscan Topic
« Reply #524 on: February 01, 2016, 06:20:48 AM »
Quote from: Evan2015 on December 23, 2015, 07:33:28 PM
In a monumentally stupid decision, TWC seems to have disabled straight passthrough of NWS warnings to the unit. A severe thunderstorm warning was issued just west of here and the ticker just says "a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for a portion of the viewing area. Remember if a severe thunderstorm threatens; take shelter indoors. Stay away from windows." The alert tone has been updated to match the IS2 while Cantore narrates the text. Why was this in any way necessary?

This is part of the new FCC regulation requiring emergency messages to be read out loud.
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