General LF Discussion

[Localonthe8s]

Just got an email, expect new LOT8s music next week.

[WeatherSTAR]

Just got an email, expect new LOT8s music next week.

I'm looking forward to this bigger variety of LOT8s music! 

[TWC Fan]

I wish they will play some older songs as well.

[weatherfan_2013]

Just got an email, expect new LOT8s music next week.

Production or playlist?

[Steve-O]

I noticed that the cities on the SD local have changed and are the same as the HD local...

[TWCJim]

I noticed that the cities on the SD local have changed and are the same as the HD local...

The cities on my SD STAR haven't changed. 

[Steve-O]

Maybe it's temporary but I'm not sure why it would be...

[gt1racerlHDl]

My SD IntelliStar has been replaced with the IS2 HD.

[TWCJim]

My SD IntelliStar has been replaced with the IS2 HD.

Yeah it seems that pretty much every Comcast headend (and perhaps a few others) has been replacing their TWC SD feeds with a letterboxed simulcast of their TWC HD feeds. I wonder why. 

[gt1racerlHDl]

My SD IntelliStar has been replaced with the IS2 HD.

Yeah it seems that pretty much every Comcast headend (and perhaps a few others) has been replacing their TWC SD feeds with a letterboxed simulcast of their TWC HD feeds. I wonder why. 

Something might be coming? the IntelliStar was just running Thursday.

[toxictwister00]

To save money I would assume. When it comes to STARs, they would only have to worry about maintaining the IS2 rather than the IS/IS2 together on different feeds. That's just my guess though.

[WeatherWitness]

To save money I would assume. When it comes to STARs, they would only have to worry about maintaining the IS2 rather than the IS/IS2 together on different feeds. That's just my guess though.

Yeah.  I think it's a whole lot easier just having to deal with one "feed" or format.  As has been discussed here a lot, many other stations just letterbox their HD feed for SD, ESPN/ESPN2 being a prime example that comes to my mind at this point.

[Evan2015]

IMO, if there was a way to just cut the sidebar from the IS2 (and maybe a slight bit of the video window), you could even take the IS2 feed and make it 4:3 for SD viewers, because the info is pretty much the same and presented in the same way.

[weatherfan_2013]

Just got an email, expect new LOT8s music next week.

Production or playlist?

From doing my research it's going to be additional production music. I just wish we had a real playlist again  Why can't they mix a few of the past playlists songs along with current production and change them out every month or so?

[TWCJim]

To save money I would assume. When it comes to STARs, they would only have to worry about maintaining the IS2 rather than the IS/IS2 together on different feeds. That's just my guess though.

Yeah.  I think it's a whole lot easier just having to deal with one "feed" or format.  As has been discussed here a lot, many other stations just letterbox their HD feed for SD, ESPN/ESPN2 being a prime example that comes to my mind at this point.

If the headend has switched over to the HD feed simulcast for The Weather Channel, that I guess that means they no longer want their SD IntelliSTAR units, right? If that's the case, then I guess that the headend would have to send the units back to TWC HQ, wouldn't they?