Emergency Feed Sightings

[Zach]

The new EF is running off of TruVu Max, not WPS like we all know and love..

[Mike M]

TWC needs to work off the bugs in TruVu before debuting these things to the public. Even the radar/satellite transitions are terrible; the radar frames constantly lag when the maps shift, as do the title bar animations. And of course the icons are still out of sync.

[beanboy89]

The new emergency feed reminds me of TWC's old satellite LFs circa mid-late 90s.

Now that I've seen the emergency feed with radar, I stand behind this statement even more. It looks like I'm basically watching an HD and slightly flashier version of a Satellite LF from 1998.

[Mike M]

Finally figured out the order of the songs on the EF playlist

Ryan Farish - Anthem of Hope
Bobby Arnold - Daydreamer
Gooding - Montana Girl
The Smiths - Oscillate Wildly
Moby - Rushing
Ryan Farish - Searching
Gooding - Station

[Trevor]

4:18 PM ET.

[TWCJim]

The emergency feed appeared at 5:18PM ET, and it looks like the EF graphics have reverted back to WPS 

The Weather Channel HD Forecast Error? 7/28/13 5:18 PM

[Eric]

The emergency feed appeared at 5:18PM ET, and it looks like the EF graphics have reverted back to WPS 

Maybe the emergency feed has its own emergency feed?

[IceManNYR]

The emergency feed came on at 2am ET and was using the new graphics.

[Adrian]

Appeared at 1:37AM ET.

[TWCToday]

TWC needs to work off the bugs in TruVu before debuting these things to the public. Even the radar/satellite transitions are terrible; the radar frames constantly lag when the maps shift, as do the title bar animations. And of course the icons are still out of sync.

Actually most of the issues you mentioned are more the problem of poor setup rather than the software. TruVu is very powerful and remarkable software. I use it daily at my job. The radar data is selected to pause whenever the camera shifts. That could be turned off. The title bar animations are the result of the graphic effect (in this case they are use "light sheen") is added to each show element/slide rather than to the overall show. That means it resets each time the graphic changes. This could be made to look a lot better with a little tweaking.

I saw a comment earlier asking why they would change to something so fancy/complex. This is actually so much simpler and easier to manage than the old EF. TruVu Max runs off of Windows so it could just be a matter of restarting the application or a restart if the system needed to be rest.

There are some performance issues in this show that could be the result of dated hardware. Probably a machine was refurbished or repaired and they figured it was good enough for this. With slower hardware, graphics had to be pre-rendered so that they were smooth. Now processing power is so good it can be rendered in real time. The older the system the more it struggles doing it on the fly.

[TWCJim]

Emergency feed at 2:18PM PT.

[IceManNYR]

The Local Forecast and the national version for those who don't have the IS or or IS2 are not running and we are getting the emergency feed.

On the national HD feed it has a black screen and the national LDL when there is no local forecast then the emergency feed kicks in.

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On the SD channel were are still getting the IS local LDL bar at the bottom with local information.

[Eric]

I just tuned in at 10:29.  The cloud/TWC logo was where the LDL should have been, and when the "Wake Up With Al" segment started again, the national LDL is being shown instead of the IS2.  (My cable company repeats the HD feed on the SD channel, so I can't comment on what the SD feed's doing here.)

I'll have to wait a few minutes to see what happens with the local forecast.
Edit at 10:42: The IS2 local forecast came on just fine, and now the IS2 LDL is working again, too.
Edit at 10:50: The national feed HD local forecast came on, and the IS2 LDL was on for about half of it.

[IceManNYR]

Also interesting is 10am to 10:42am there were no local forecasts or commercial breaks.
They filled in the commercial and LOT8's time with live forecast segments from ATL then went back to WUWA on tape from 6am.

[Eric]

Also interesting is 10am to 10:42am there were no local forecasts or commercial breaks.
They filled in the commercial and LOT8's time with live forecast segments from ATL then went back to WUWA on tape from 6am.

Now that's interesting if they're doing live "emergency" segments again.  Someone's computer had a hiccup!