IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

[WeatherWitness]

Please someone in NYC get a recording of the IS2 during the blizzard Sunday-Monday. Pleassseeeee.

hey, I hope I'm not too late. I've uploaded some videos so far, take a look: http://www.youtube.com/user/LightningFever86?feature=mhum

THANK YOU very much for posting!!! Very interesting...I've never seen any IS predict a "blizzard" before and use the blowing snow icon (mainly because I don't live in such an area ).

[twcmaster]

Is this what you guys are talking about?

[tuez13]

Is this what you guys are talking about?

You are correct!

[twcmaster]

Here is the video (2nd video). There were people having a full conversation in the background, so unfortunately I had to remove the audio.

http://albums.phanfare.com/isolated/3RdhZ1Kw/1/4953035

[Lightning86]

The weather bulletin is not narrated, right?

[Evan2015]

The weather bulletin is not narrated, right?

I think so, in one of ajatwister's videos Jim said "A Heat Advisory is in effect."

[Eric]

The IS2 is getting installed pretty quickly now. Hopefully we'll see a lot more in the coming months.

I really hope so.  I enjoy watching the HD feed, but I find it a little inconvenient to have to switch to the SD channel or Weatherscan for the local forecast.

[TWCToday]

The IS2 is getting installed pretty quickly now. Hopefully we'll see a lot more in the coming months.

Your definition and my definition of quickly differ significantly

[KevOwensby]

Anyone else notice the new "L-bar" during long form programming? It's different than it was a couple days ago. I noticed it tonight during the 2010 weather lookback. I'll post video tomorrow after Storm Stories / I get home from work. If my new DVR records it like it's supposed to. :/

[twcmaster]

The weather bulletin is not narrated, right?

No, it definitely *is* narrated 

[tuez13]

I just caught these tonight...enjoy!

12-30-10 Grand Forks IntelliStar 2 2010-12-30_00-49-02_306

Grand Forks IntelliStar 2 2010-12-30_01-08-48_467

[Charismatic Applesauce]

I still don't get why the IS2 has the old icons.

[Eric]

I still don't get why the IS2 has the old icons.

It's been mentioned in this forum before.  The icons used in the HD Star were originally developed for HD.  However, they were also used in SD, but the results didn't look as expected in standard definition, which is why they were changed to the icons currently used in both the SD feed (national & Intellistar) and the national HD feed.  However, since this particular set of icons was developed specifically for HD, that's the set that is being used for the HD Star.

[TWCToday]

I still don't get why the IS2 has the old icons.

It's been mentioned in this forum before.  The icons used in the HD Star were originally developed for HD.  However, they were also used in SD, but the results didn't look as expected in standard definition, which is why they were changed to the icons currently used in both the SD feed (national & Intellistar) and the national HD feed.  However, since this particular set of icons was developed specifically for HD, that's the set that is being used for the HD Star.

From what I was told thats not quite it. The original icons were used on SD before the HD launch. The new icons were launched but apparently look terrible on the HD STAR so they just used the old ones

[tuez13]

Either way, I like the "old" flipbooks that are on the IS2 now instead of the cheezeballs on the IS and various maps used on TWC.