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Other => General Discussion => Topic started by: Eric on August 14, 2010, 12:37:01 AM
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Once upon a time I thought the WeatherStar III was the bee's knees, and I was in total awe when I saw the 4000 for the first time. Actually, the day the cable company installed it, they were setting it up live on air, meaning the local forecast segments were totally worthless as far as weather information was concerned, but it was SO incredibly interesting to watch what they were doing with it, and, of course, my eyes were just absorbing everything that I was seeing for the first time - a graphical local forecast!! This was in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1991, only a year after the 4000 had been introduced, and just as it was coming out of its final test phases. For example, there were still fade animations between the blue text box screens and the maps, the local forecast screens had a vertical wipe between the three screens of text, and the regional maps used the current conditions/extended forecast icon set in miniature for a while.
Alas, this was while I was visiting my grandparents for the summer. The Boston area didn't get the 4000 for another two years, and, yes, I was quite disappointed when I realized that my cable company back home hadn't upgraded at the same time my grandparents' cable company did, despite Boston and Philadelphia both being large markets. Thank you, Continental Cablevision (later to eventually become Comcast)... Eric says sarcastically. :)
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My favorite is by far the WeatherStar XL because my favorite days of TWC I remember was in 2003, when I had the XL. And I just like the graphics and icons of it, especially version 2.
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My favorite will always be the WeatherStar XL.
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The WeatherStar4000, I love the color scheme and the icons, it felt very high tech for it's time. I wish we still had one. :( The XL is a close second. (particularly version 1)
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XL for me. Whoever voted the IntelliStar must be nuts lol
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Wheres the Jr? :P Other than that the Jr is my fav followed by the IS
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Definitely the XL, especially v.1 (though I like all three versions). :yes: Close second would be IntelliStar before September 2004.
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Definitely the 4000. Nostalgia & memories of the days when the Weather Channel was at its' best (in my opinion) do play a part. I really liked the color scheme which was more eye appealing than the plain blue screen of the first WxStar 3's. The date, day of the week and time were always clearly visible in the upper or lower right of the screen (as they were on the 3000) and it was the first time a local Doppler radar was shown at my location.
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Definitely the 4000. Nostalgia & memories of the days when the Weather Channel was at its' best (in my opinion) do play a part. I really liked the color scheme which was more eye appealing than the plain blue screen of the first WxStar 3's. The date, day of the week and time were always clearly visible in the upper or lower right of the screen (as they were on the 3000) and it was the first time a local Doppler radar was shown at my location.
Oh, I remember the first day I saw the current radar on the WeatherStar 4000 - I was just amazed at how much technology had progressed up to that point! :)
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My favorite is the XL, then the all-mighty Junior :biggrin:
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The XL is my favorite, IntelliStar as my 2nd favorite, but I still hate the IntelliCrap. (since I only saw 2 WeatherSTAR)
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4000's always going to be the magic one for me. I'm lucky...occasionally, I still get to see it at the hotel down the street in State College (it used to be D&E Communications, a little mom-n-pop cable company; now it's Windstream, so it probably is going to be an IS sooner than later.) Although I have to admit I kind of miss PSU's WS Jr. they got rid of in October 2008.
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XL. :yes: I have always wanted WOW! to downgrade us to it instead of using the Intellistar. From the videos I've seen it looks like a good STAR.
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XL. :yes: I have always wanted WOW! to downgrade us to it instead of using the Intellistar. From the videos I've seen it looks like a good STAR.
WOW! That would be awesome if some IntelliStar's would be downgraded to legacy STAR's. :yes:
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XL. :yes: I have always wanted WOW! to downgrade us to it instead of using the Intellistar. From the videos I've seen it looks like a good STAR.
WOW! That would be awesome if some IntelliStar's would be downgraded to legacy STAR's. :yes:
It would, but WOW! would NOT go down to a legacy STAR. So I'm stuck with the IntelliStar. :thumbdown: