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Local Forecast / Re: IS2 compatibility issues

« on: February 04, 2011, 01:07:34 AM »

I might have worded it wrong and confused people, I tend to do that, sorry. The bandwidth they use to carry TWCHD is what they'll use for the TWCHD with IS2. The IS2 is said to output ASI and eventually IP. When fed into the groomer, you need to know the PIDs of all the streams, which TWC should be able to help them with, to properly route the proper streams to be groomed. I bet no one at Crapshat knows how to make it work.

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Local Forecast / Re: IS2 compatibility issues

« on: February 01, 2011, 01:04:38 AM »

The "compatibility issue" is not really that. You can use a standard DCII IRD with ethernet and ASI output and feed it into the IS2. The output is ASI which has to be feed into a groomer. Grooming is basically transcoding, because Crapshat loves to feed HD lite to it's customers instead of HD, so they groom the bitrate to reduce it, so they can fit 10000 channels onto an already limited and/or poorly design infastructure. I know with the original Intellistar, it came with a Motorola DSR-4520 Digicipher II IRD. It would output SDI (Similar to DVI, you could say) and multicast IP data via it's ethernet port. The output on the Intellistar would be SDI video with audio, composite video, with analog audio, local avail triggering, etc. The SDI output would connect to a groomer or MPEG2 encoder for feeding into another groomer or multiplexer, then onto the QAM plant. Basically, Crapshat are either idiots, or cheap, but I would have to agree with both.

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Local Forecast / Re: Weatherstar 4000 Locations that remain

« on: January 21, 2011, 01:04:20 AM »

Wayne, can you send me a private message?

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Weatherstar JR for sale - own a piece of TWC history

« on: January 18, 2011, 02:54:44 AM »

I have a copy of a STAR agreement, and due to privacy issues, I won't share. But, I can tell you this: The cable operator bought the STAR from TWC according to the agreement, and it was theirs. In fact, the 4000 that I have has an asset tag on it with a number and "Propery of XYZ".

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: TWC Alarm on Star Jr.

« on: January 18, 2011, 01:57:59 AM »

Audio alert generators for the Jr's go off at random times all the time. It's the Jr is triggering it. Sometimes the screw terminals on the Jr's contact closure outputs get corroded, or the Jr just starts to trigger the generator at random times. It's triggered by a contact closure. The contact closure circuitry in the Jr is solid state I believe.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Weatherstar JR for sale - own a piece of TWC history

« on: January 18, 2011, 01:41:58 AM »

It's not illegal. I don't know where you guys get this information from. The STAR agreement does not state that TWC owns anything, other than the fact they can elect to buy it back for less money than it was paid for. And as for the videocipher, there is nothing illegal about that either. Once the account is closed, or is unpaid, or the digital feed is used, the videocipher isn't sent any new keys, so eventually loses video. No legal trouble, no lawyers, no jail time, no arrests. It baffles me where you guys come up with this stuff.