The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

[Spring Rubber]

Before 2006, it always used to be used for all cat 3+ storms and strong cat 2 storms, but that changed in 2006 when they decided to start hyping minor tropical storms. I have a feeling that they may have gone back to the pre-2006 criteria, though.

[Localonthe8s]

I hope they play storm alert music on the local forecast either way

[Zach]

No Storm Alert yet.
I think it was Ryan Farish who played at 7:48.
Does anyone know when the next Local Across the 48s is?

[Spring Rubber]

It should be a while from now (several months). We don't do it that often. I imagine it would help if more people would be able to participate.

[lfmusiclover]

Chris, you've already PM'd me about this. 

[WeatherWitness]

OK, wow, why is Day Planner in the HD Studio? I'm guessing it's just for hurricane coverage, but is the show actually in HD? And it's interesting that Adam is on this morning with Eboni; I thought Adam worked EEWC.

[lfmusiclover]

OK, wow, why is Day Planner in the HD Studio? I'm guessing it's just for hurricane coverage, but is the show actually in HD? And it's interesting that Adam is on this morning with Eboni; I thought Adam worked EEWC.

Adam is what I refer to as a floater. He goes where he's needed. 

[Spring Rubber]

Yes, it's in HD; it figures that I fell asleep, and the 10AM-12 PM CT hours aren't recorded. I'm back recording now, though.

[wxmancanada]

Yes, it's in HD; it figures that I fell asleep, and the 10AM-12 PM CT hours aren't recorded. I'm back recording now, though.

I've got it all recorded.

[Spring Rubber]

The HD feed on DirecTV just went nuts again during the last LF and at the start of the EE segment. There were colored bars traveling up and down the screen like crazy, and there was no audio; after a while, that stopped, and then the picture started jumping around the screen. After that stopped, the audio came back, and the image started rotating with solid purple, aqua, and green screens. It got better for about a minute, but then the traveling bars started up again for about another minute until the problem was finally solved for good. Was DirecTV messing around with their satellites again?

[wxmancanada]

The HD feed on DirecTV just went nuts again during the last LF and at the start of the EE segment. There were colored bars traveling up and down the screen like crazy, and there was no audio; after a while, that stopped, and then the picture started jumping around the screen. After that stopped, the audio came back, and the image started rotating with solid purple, aqua, and green screens. It got better for about a minute, but then the traveling bars started up again for about another minute until the problem was finally solved for good. Was DirecTV messing around with their satellites again?

I believe that would have been something downsteam of master between that point, and transmission at DirecTV. I want to say its a STAR rebooting, because the output card usually shows / flashes color bars upon rebooting for a split / a couple of seconds. Was there any sort of clicking, or popping sound?

[Spring Rubber]

The HD feed on DirecTV just went nuts again during the last LF and at the start of the EE segment. There were colored bars traveling up and down the screen like crazy, and there was no audio; after a while, that stopped, and then the picture started jumping around the screen. After that stopped, the audio came back, and the image started rotating with solid purple, aqua, and green screens. It got better for about a minute, but then the traveling bars started up again for about another minute until the problem was finally solved for good. Was DirecTV messing around with their satellites again?

I believe that would have been something downsteam of master between that point, and transmission at DirecTV. I want to say its a STAR rebooting, because the output card usually shows / flashes color bars upon rebooting for a split / a couple of seconds. Was there any sort of clicking, or popping sound?

There may have been those noises, but I'm not sure. At any rate, I thought there wasn't a STAR involved on the HD feed.

[wxmancanada]

The HD feed on DirecTV just went nuts again during the last LF and at the start of the EE segment. There were colored bars traveling up and down the screen like crazy, and there was no audio; after a while, that stopped, and then the picture started jumping around the screen. After that stopped, the audio came back, and the image started rotating with solid purple, aqua, and green screens. It got better for about a minute, but then the traveling bars started up again for about another minute until the problem was finally solved for good. Was DirecTV messing around with their satellites again?

I believe that would have been something downsteam of master between that point, and transmission at DirecTV. I want to say its a STAR rebooting, because the output card usually shows / flashes color bars upon rebooting for a split / a couple of seconds. Was there any sort of clicking, or popping sound?

There may have been those noises, but I'm not sure. At any rate, I thought there wasn't a STAR involved on the HD feed.

That's why I'm doubting my threory, however there obviliously is a system downstream from master that throws in the locals, I'm not familiar with the system though. It might be the same card as what the IS uses, which produces color bars upon reboot / stream failure.

[Spring Rubber]

The problem happened on the national feed as well. I have to wonder if it's related to the problem with the HD LF that I reported on the Tech Support board on TWCC; I would imagine that such a problem might originate in Network Control; I would think that the HD Satellite LF would originate the same way that the SD one does.

[wxmancanada]

The problem happened on the national feed as well. I have to wonder if it's related to the problem with the HD LF that I reported on the Tech Support board on TWCC; I would imagine that such a problem might originate in Network Control; I would think that the HD Satellite LF would originate the same way that the SD one does.

Network control has nothing to do with video.