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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: Question about IntelliStar 2

« on: September 01, 2014, 10:53:08 PM »

I'm too addicted to Local on the 8s/IntelliStar that I would like to ask this.. Anyway has anyone like a normal person who doesn't work for TWC or a Cable Company ever gotten a WeatherStar or other unit? Also do you guys think there's a chance that Comcast would give me an IntelliStar that they aren't using? :p

I head someone found one in a dumpster at an old cable head end once.

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Local Forecast / Re: What exactly makes the Intellistar 2 Jr cheaper than the original Intellistar?

« on: August 20, 2014, 11:39:56 PM »

Cable systems that have the intellistar 2 HD have been cutting off the old intellistar and showing a letter boxed or cut down HD feed on the SD feed.

Still haven't seen that happen on my Xfinity headend yet.

comcast has been slow to install the new intellistar 2 HD.

also will there be an intellistar 2 /  intellistar 2 jr weather scan?

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Local Forecast / Re: What exactly makes the Intellistar 2 Jr cheaper than the original Intellistar?

« on: July 31, 2014, 09:22:18 AM »

Cable systems that have the intellistar 2 HD have been cutting off the old intellistar and showing a letter boxed or cut down HD feed on the SD feed.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New TWC show: Fat Guys in the Woods

« on: June 29, 2014, 10:29:46 PM »

CNN should of been the ones to buy the weather channle and not NBC.

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Local Forecast / Re: Station ID segment? Should it return?

« on: April 08, 2014, 08:06:28 PM »

have the 2 min LOT8's come back.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: TWC Greenlights 6 New Series in Time for First Upfront in 5 Years

« on: March 05, 2014, 10:01:30 PM »

More non weather related reality shows are coming to TWC.
"Four new series are being scheduled by the Weather Channel: “Catching Hell,” about commercial spearfishers; “Now What?” about people’s behavior during weather emergencies; “Tornado Alley”; and “Wicked in the Weather,” about meteorological legends like “a bad moon rising.” Four series are being renewed, including “Strangest Weather on Earth” and “Why Planes Crash.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/business/media/morning-show-for-weather-channel.html?dtoc

Commercial spearfishers? Give me a break! I'm sure this show has as much to do about weather as Reel Rivals.

how long before comcast is the only system with this channel

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: February 12, 2014, 11:49:55 PM »

TWC just ran a super lame promo mocking the DTV don't switch to cable TV ads.
In the midst of their Storm coverage it's not appropriate and childish.
http://bcove.me/j5zg8cqj

wow thats lame.. they think way to highly of their crappy channel

they are full of them self's Comcast needs to stop this before it's like G4 TV.

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Local Forecast / Re: Weather STAR XL Replaced

« on: February 12, 2014, 11:41:29 PM »

This is the IntelliStar Jr. It is replacing all legacy units. It will get the updated graphics at some point.

Intellistar Jr., huh?

Do you know how this compares, tech-wise, to the IS1 and IS2?  It's obviously different in that it has Cantore's Vocal Local, but also the specs have to be closer to the IS2, right?

And, if we have an IS already, like with Fios, will they go to the ISJr.?

My guess is that the legacy STAR platforms are unable to "support" the IS or IS2 hardware, so a slightly simpler form of hardware (hence the suffix "Jr.") needed to be used.  If you already have the IS, I doubt they would go to the IS Jr. because that would be considered a downgrade (like going from the IS to the XL).

I'm not quite sure why the graphics have not been updated yet, though, but Tyler said they would eventually be updated.

the legacy STAR platforms are on analog c-band with Videocipher II encrypted

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Comcast/Xfinity

« on: January 18, 2014, 01:47:11 AM »

And we had Time Warner in some areas until it was assimilated into the borg hive mind that is xfinity.

I'm on FiOS these days, but my service was Comcast from the start in the 80s.  Hell, we had our service before it became Comcast!  Well, kind of.  Philadelphia, when it got cable in the late 1980s, had four different zones, each with a different franchise.  We were zoned as Rollins Cable, but Rollins got bought out by Heritage right before they launched.  So we were Heritage when we originally got cable, but Heritage decided to bail early on and sold to the operator of the adjacent zone.

I can still remember the creepy and cheap "Comcaaaaaaaast... commmmcast.... WATCH US NOW!" jingle and eyesore logo that started popping up all of a sudden.

I still kind of can't believe that the company that had the How To Order Pay Per View Rap now kind of controls the world. 

And yes.  Comcast.  took.  forever. to add anything.  We went to Wildwood, NJ to vacation, and they had TKR Cable (part-owned by TCI).  TKR kept adding stuff that Comcast wouldn't.  For a couple of years I wondered why their Weather Channel looked so awesome and ours looked like crap. (I don't think we got the 4000 until 1993 or 1994.)

Comcast Chicago area has done alot of poor stuff like.

Move channels to from analog to digital (higher tear with added costs) Back then direct was running radio ad's saying Comcast wants you to pay more or get less. Leading a few years down the road with channels like syfy and others being in comcast digital preferred when all other comcast areas had it in starter / extended

And years later when the main analog trun off for all of Chicagoland area was being down you where not able to get CSN + on the free dta's no you needed to pay like 6-7+ a box to get it. While at the same time other cable systems had CSN and CSN+ on analog (wow cable) / some comcast areas (was pulled midway though the turnoff that was going zone to zone in all areas). Also dish / directv had lower box / outlet costs.

CLTV SD and CSN + still use the same channel (why on digital cable is that sill needed?) and they was CLTV HD not added to the CSN + HD slot?

As for why CSN + was not just put on the SD ver of the info channel? That is on info channel HD (CSN + HD part time HD goes 480i when in info channel mode) there is a info channel SD / comcast network 101 that is a over flow of comcast network 100. CSN 2+ was on Comcast Network 101 and was on the DTA back then. But after analog trun off why not give CSN + it's own channel or add CLTV HD to the CSN + HD is a other odd thing.

also chcaigo land had other odd stuff like speed in expanded basic / starter in some parts but in sports pack in others and TCM is limited basic in some and in preferred in others.

Need to recall more about how bad they where.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: January 17, 2014, 12:11:05 AM »

Not confirmed...but a friend just shared this on Facebook:

HEADLINE: DirecTV returns to the table after Weather Channel promises to scale back on the reality shows and use split feeds.

Split feeds as feeding directv the alt / severe weather feed all the time?

Weather scan? Maybe even some kind of Weather scan national? Maybe even in HD?

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Local Forecast / Re: Local on the 8's used as backround TV show in upcomeing game

« on: January 09, 2014, 11:24:12 PM »

look closer the first time I saw the video I spotted it right away. and I was not even looking for it.

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Local Forecast / Local on the 8's used as backround TV show in upcomeing game

« on: January 08, 2014, 06:11:20 PM »

Watch Dogs -- 14 Minute Gameplay Demo

jump to 8:17

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: DirecTV Dropping TWC

« on: December 31, 2013, 09:27:37 PM »

nbc / comcrap can play dirty and try force systems to have to buy TWC to get channels like NBCSN, local nbc, USA and more.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Comcast/Xfinity

« on: December 22, 2013, 05:03:03 PM »

If this does indeed happen would Xfinity Customers get Switched Digital Video (SDV) that Time Warner currently has?

that would need lot's of plant up grades in comcast land as well a lot of SDV tuners for cable card users.

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Local Forecast / Re: Fate of the 2 Minute Locals

« on: September 16, 2013, 12:02:14 PM »

Tell him the lot8s are still important. I can't view several products on the dtv and have always missed the locals due to them being so short. Having the IS2 is pointless with fewer lfs but again management could care less

What about an national weather scan for directv and dish? and maybe even make it HD.