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Local Forecast / Re: Weatherstar 4000 and XL problems, anyone know what's going on?

« on: March 14, 2010, 01:12:32 PM »

My cable company has two buildings with a 4000 in one and an XL in the other. They have been acting weird lately, especially the 4000.

-The 4000 is in Forest Hill, Maryland, but it says Baltimore Harbor on the current conditions. It had garbled text back in September from the sun outages. The ad crawl stopped showing a couple months ago.  When it says the monthly precipitation on the LDL during the local forecast, it always says 0.00 inches, even if we've had some during the month.

-The XL is in Fawn Grove, Pennsylvania. It sometimes skips the narrations. Sometimes on the three day extended forecast, instead of saying the entire forecast, Allen Jackson just says "Your extended forecast." On the weeklong extended forecast, Allen sometimes says nothing at all. The ad crawl does show, but it didn't start coming up until a few days ago when they discontinued all the individual STAR LDLs.

Does anyone know what is causing these problems?

The 4000 is ancient and probably degrading. Some of it could be related to dish alignment, etc causing the software to improperly load.

The XL skips narration all the time. Its the result of not enough time in the flavor to read the narration

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: March 13, 2010, 09:06:38 PM »

Oh no you aint, Martin! (btw, im testing twct from my phone)p

What type of phone do you have?

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Billy's Artwork

« on: March 13, 2010, 07:28:57 PM »

  Looking good

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Local Forecast / Re: New LDL

« on: March 13, 2010, 07:20:18 PM »

It looks much better on my TV. Must've been my tuner.

No its not just that. The logo is a different shade of blue. I noticed it earlier when my ldl didnt cue

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: March 13, 2010, 06:53:01 PM »

I still have leftover cake from my mom's birthday yesterday. I don't think I can eat another bite. lol

I'll take it off your hands!

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Local Forecast / Re: New LDL

« on: March 13, 2010, 06:52:01 PM »

The fonts dont look that similiar. Seems like the 2005 weather.com fonts had a different Helevetica font version.

I agree. I wonder why they choose such a crappy version of the TWC logo. That one is washed out. Wonder if they were just in a hurry

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Local Forecast / Re: New LDL

« on: March 13, 2010, 02:08:24 PM »

The local LDL never cued for long-form at 2 PM ET, so I'm currently seeing the small version of the national LDL.

I find it strange that the national LDL has a different TWC logo. There's no shadow, no mirrored logo, and the weather.com font is not Interstate.

Haha I know

Did Weekend View have the large or small ldl?

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TWC Today News / Re: TWC Classics and TWC Today

« on: March 13, 2010, 01:16:36 PM »

If you are a member of TWCC, I strongly encourage you to voice your opinion on this over there as well
http://www.twcclassics.com/forums/topic/10056-the-future-of-this-forum/

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Weather Data

« on: March 13, 2010, 04:36:13 AM »

To receive weather conditions based on your location next to your posts, just enter your location. To do this go to Profile -> Modify Profile -> Forum Profile

The software will read City, State. ie Norfolk, VA or Norfolk, Virginia

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: March 13, 2010, 02:19:53 AM »

Tonight on NBC Nightly News, they showed two TWC weather graphics of the impending northeast rain storm. One of Titan HD of a radar/satellite, and another of Viz with the estimated rainfall totals. Looked neat finally seeing TWC's graphics in their full HD glory.

Something we SHOULD see on TWC HD

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Weatherscan Discussion / Re: Weatherscan Topic

« on: March 13, 2010, 01:52:51 AM »

Probably just a rendering sequence issue if it went away

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: March 13, 2010, 01:51:20 AM »

* Martin shoves the last shovel of coal into the fire

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: March 13, 2010, 01:49:42 AM »

Final Transmission of 2006-2010 icons

Final Transmission of TWC's previous Icons set 2006-2010

RIP realistic icons and WeatherCenter lower thirds 

Miss the old lower thirds already

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Local Forecast / Re: New LDL

« on: March 13, 2010, 12:26:15 AM »

Two more LDL questions, if you all don't mind:

1) The icons on my National LDLs do NOT animate. Is this true for everyone, or is it an error?

2) Do any of the HD LDLs show local information, or just national information to synchronize with the LDA?

Oh yea probably wont animate since there are so many icons next to each other at times. TWC didn't want it too distracting I guess

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TWC Today News / Re: Forum Time Change

« on: March 13, 2010, 12:09:05 AM »

...Or sleep

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