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What do you want to return to the LF
« on: November 30, 2014, 08:57:27 AM »
If TWC gave you the option to bring back 3 features from the old STARS or graphics packs/versions what would you choose?

For me at this moment in time I would choose:
1. Local forecast ID's
2. Return of the flavours - Mmmm... Mint Choc Chip :P
3. Return of the analog signal (I miss the XL and the 4000  :cry: )


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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2014, 12:51:01 PM »
1. The time that shows am & pm.
2. Today's date.
3. Moon phase.
4. Travel Cities Forecast.

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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2014, 06:28:28 AM »
1. 2 minute locals
2. Smooth Jazz
3. Original IntelliStar 2 design

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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2014, 09:34:00 AM »
1. 2 minute flavors
2. Smooth Jazz
3. Summary Screen
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4. Local Forecast IDs

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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2014, 12:11:42 PM »
1. Versatile Flavor Line ups again, the LFs can remain 1 minute long, but it would be nice to see some of the climate/almanac data you see on the side LDL (if you have the IS2) show up in the LF again. That's all I ask.


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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2014, 12:21:35 PM »
1. Two minute flavors
2. Old IS and IS2 designs
3. Smooth Jazz
4. Local Weather IDs
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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2014, 05:21:33 PM »
1. Station ID segment and local weather IDs
2. 90 second/2 minute flavors (would of loved it even more if they ever bring back 3/5/6 minute flavors, but I doubt its ever going to happen again)
3. Today's date and a clock that displays seconds like on the III/Jr./4000/XL
4. Travel Cities Forecast (and I doubt its ever going to happen again, see #2)
5. Countdown bar on the radar for the IntelliStar like how it was from version 1-2
6. Larger weather bulletin crawls in yellow, orange, and red and louder warning tone
7. Smooth Jazz plus the return of the Trammell Starks emergency playlist and even Killer Tracks/Network Music songs
8. Almanac with moon phases
9. Analog signal (but I also doubt its ever going to come back again since the legacy STARs are already showing its age)

That's all I could think of.
« Last Edit: December 03, 2014, 09:58:09 PM by WeatherSTARIII »
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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2014, 06:40:59 PM »
1. Hourly Forecast
2. Almanac
3. Metro Conditions/Forecast

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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2014, 08:17:00 PM »
1. ID screen
2. Smooth Jazz
3. 2 Min Flavors

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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2015, 10:51:42 AM »
I highly doubt that TWC would ever switch back to an analog signal. They most likely recycled all of the parts for such a setup

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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2015, 04:31:51 AM »
I can't understand why there's so much desire for a return to analogue.  Why deliberately downgrade a service?  Not only does digital have more to offer than analogue, including a much better picture quality, it also uses so much less bandwidth than an analogue channel that there's so much more room freed up on transponders to offer even more programming from other sources.

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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2015, 11:31:24 AM »
I suppose I didn't write it correctly, It would be nice to see the designs of the older units, not necessarily the analog signal.


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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2015, 08:47:34 PM »
*   2-minute flavors
*   Latest Observations (perhaps 1 screen with 6 locations) and/or current conditions map
*   Almanac (Weatherscan style - with moon phases, hi/lo records, and sunrise/sunset
*   Satellite
*   xL or IS-style topo maps
*   smooth jazz
*   better layouts/graphics (like the IS)
*   J bar layout for LOT8s during long-form



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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #13 on: August 07, 2015, 11:44:08 PM »
2 min flavors
Smooth jazz
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Re: What do you want to return to the LF
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2015, 02:57:23 PM »
Smooth jazz
2 min flavors
Most of the discontinued maps