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Today, my girlfriend and I went up to Aberdeen just for the day, and we went to a thrift shop called "Thrift City." There at the store we saw some old TV sets, and on one of the TV sets, it was tuned to a local TWC feed. Because I saw a local city name on the programming LDL that appeared the second I layed eyes on the TV, I knew almost immediately that the local cable company that served the Aberdeen area (which I found out later that it was Comcast) uses an IntelliSTAR unit on their headend. I wasn't really expecting to find a TV tuned to TWC at the store, but it sure was a lucky coincidence for me  B)

As I watched two LFs respectively, here is some information that I discovered about the STAR unit:

  • The STAR's observation site is Aberdeen, WA
  • The STAR unit type is the IntelliSTAR
  • The STAR's ID number is 22286
  • The cable provider on which this STAR is seen on is Xfinity (or Comcast)
  • The channel number on which TWC is viewed on in the area is 78

And on top of that, I was able to take 4 pictures of the STAR on a TV set at the store with my camera (see attachments below.)

Note: Sorry about the black bars that appear in my photos. That always happens when you try to take pictures of a TV set with a typical camera  :P

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General Discussion / What TV channels do you get?
« on: September 06, 2012, 05:28:10 PM »
Didn't see a topic so I though I'd start one.


Post a list of the TV channels you get at home here, if you wish. Here are the channels I get:


Charter Communications - Limited Basic Cable - Long Beach, WA


* Digital channels only

2 - KATU (ABC, Portland)
3 - KRCW (The CW, Portland)
4 - KOMO (ABC, Seattle)
5 - KING (NBC, Seattle)
5-1 - KING (NBC, Seattle) HD*
5-2 - Live Well Network*
7 - KIRO (CBS, Seattle)
9 - QVC
10 - KOPB (PBS, Portland)
10-1 - KOPB (PBS, Portland) HD*
10-2 - OPB Plus*
10-3 - OPB FM*
11 - Home Shopping Network
12 - KPTV (FOX, Portland)
13 - KCPQ (FOX, Seattle)
14 - Leased Access
15 - C-SPAN
16 - ION Television
17 - Telemundo
18-2 - ShopNBC*
18-3 - C-SPAN 2*
19 - The Weather Channel
20 - TBS
21 - Leased Access
22 - KZJO (MyNetworkTV, Seattle)
23 - Style
24 - Oxygen
59 - Northwest Cable News
60 - MSNBC
61 - CNBC
62 - TruTV
64-6 - Nick Jr*
64-7 - TeenNick*
64-8 - Nicktoons*
66-8 - The Inspiration Network*
66-9 - Trinity Broadcasting Network*
66-10 - Eternal Word Television Network*
67-8 - Pay Per View Channel*
74-5 - TV Guide Network*
86 - Video feed of Charter's spectrum analyzer (AKA the "heart monitor" channel")
97-1 - The Weather Channel HD*
290-0 - Retro Television Network*
292-0 - This TV*
780-0 - KIRO (CBS, Seattle) HD*
782-0 - KOMO (ABC, Seattle) HD*
784-0 - KCPQ (FOX, Seattle) HD*

UPDATED ON OCTOBER 24, 2012

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / LAT48s 2012
« on: September 03, 2012, 01:39:19 PM »
I was wondering if we can do another LAT48s, the first for this year. I was thinking maybe on the first day of autumn (September 22nd) at around 7:58PM ET? What do you guys think?

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General Discussion / Neil Armstrong has died
« on: August 25, 2012, 03:17:04 PM »
Watching breaking news on MSNBC...

Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, has passed away today at the age of 82  :(

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General Discussion / Comedian Phyllis Diller dies at age 95
« on: August 20, 2012, 05:06:13 PM »
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/showbiz/phyllis-diller-obit/index.html?hpt=hp_c1


She did a lot of comedy work, and she was also known for her cackle laugh. The only times I've known her voice for was the queen ant in the animated movie A Bug's Life, as well as the voice of Peter Griffin's mother on Family Guy. RIP Ms. Diller  :(

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Not sure if this was the correct place to ask for help, but I'm having a little trouble with importing WTV (Windows Recorded TV) video files into Windows Live Movie Maker. I've provided snapshots under the attachments section of this post to better understand what I'm having trouble with here.

First, after I imported the WTV file, WLMM says it's trying to prepare the video for improved playback performance (see screenshot 1 for reference.) But after a few seconds later, it stops, and the video clip shows a yellow ! box (see screenshot 2 for reference.) Afterwards I right-clicked on the video file in the WLMM preview section, and then clicked on the first option, "Fix clip." A window popped up and says that the video file may be corrupted or in a format the program doesn't recognize (see screenshot 3 for reference.)

For some reason, the WTV videos that were recorded in SD worked okay when they were imported, but it's the clips recorded in HD that ran me into a brick wall. Anyone here have any suggestions on what to do that I might be able to give a shot at?  :dunno:

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Didn't see a topic similar to this one, so I thought I'd start it off.

What is your favorite scene and/or quote from any current or former TV show, whether it's live-action or animated?

One of my favorites is from the Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror V" episode, where Homer has this toaster which is a time machine, and in one scene, he is in a world where he and his family are wealthy. He asks Marge to pass him a donut, then Marge responds "Donut? What's a donut?" Homer then screams in horror, then runs back to the basement and goes back into time again. As soon as he left, it started to rain donuts in the world which he left. That scene was a classic to me  :lol:

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Local Forecast / What songs do you want to hear on the LFs?
« on: July 10, 2012, 12:51:50 AM »
Didn't see a topic so I'd thought I start it off.

I've already made a topic about songs you'd want to hear again on the LFs, but what about the song(s) that hasn't aired on TWC yet you would like to hear on the LFs someday?

For me, "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass would definitely fit it. I have used that song for my TWC emulator a couple of times.


Mods: If there is a topic similar to this one, please let me know and feel free to lock this one to avoid duplication problems  :thumbsup:

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Local Forecast / The WeatherSTAR XL for LaGrange, OH
« on: June 02, 2012, 01:09:58 PM »
Read on Wikipedia that this XL does not have the 2005 graphics update  :o

Does anyone have any info about this, or maybe even a photo or a video clip of this unit? I found a link to a page TWC Classics, but the link was dead.

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General Discussion / Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!
« on: May 13, 2012, 11:28:11 AM »
Couldn't find a topic about today, so I thought I create one myself.

Here's to all of our mothers, including my own. They gave life to us, raised us, took care of us, and made us who we are today. Without them, none of us would be here today. Hats off to our moms!  :thumbsup:

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / IntelliSTAR #23550 glitching
« on: May 04, 2012, 09:35:14 AM »
Hi STAR team

The IntelliSTAR in Astoria, Oregon appears to be glitching. On the :28 and :58 flavors, the air quality forecast product skips directly to the tides product (in other words the marine forecast product isn't showing at all and is being skipped) and towards the end of the LF, both the blue LDL and the sponsorship bug are running the satellite LF for the remainer of the STAR's normal run over the satellite LF, which is generally the last few seconds of the LF. Other flavors of the STAR appear to be working properly.

The cable provider is Charter and the ID number is 23550.

Can this error be looked into?

Thanks,
Jim

EDIT: I was finally able to post the video of the glitch, shown below:

TWC IntelliSTAR- Astoria, OR- May 3, 2012- 7:57PM PDT

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If anybody have seen my videos over at YouTube, you might have listened to all 33 Weatherscan music files, uninterrupted and uncut. For those who haven't seen the videos yet, here's a little background on each and every one of them...

Last year, I ripped all 33 tracks, all directly from my cable box, at least three times in order to completely remove the Vocal Local narrations that constantly interrupt this music. Using the audio-editing program Audacity, I attempted to replace certain sections of a recording that had the narrations with the very same section on another recording that doesn't have the narration. It was a hard task, but it was fun doing so.

I would like to offer everyone here MP3s of my rips of all of the Weatherscan music. If you click on either of my videos on YT, you'll find a download link in their infoboxes.

I would post the link here on the site, but I wasn't sure if the mods would approve since full music downloading is frowned upon here.

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General Discussion / Commercials You Love
« on: April 29, 2012, 11:20:35 PM »
There is a topic about commercials that you loathe, but what about the commercials that you love, old and/or current?


I remember this one ad for Portable On Demand Storage (PODS) where this moving guy has trouble pulling out the ramp from his truck, and at the end, he's excited that he has the ramp halfway open, but then it pulls back, and the guy just gives up. That one made me laugh  :rofl2:

I also like the Allstate ads with that Mayhem character. Those make me laugh also  :lol:

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Broken screens on Weatherscan
« on: April 29, 2012, 02:22:22 PM »
Hi STAR team

My Weatherscan has been experiencing outages on couple of screens.

The first screen is the Allergy Report during the spring/summer Health product, which has been saying "No Report" since March of last year. The second screen is the Palmer Drought Severity screen during the Garden segment, which has been saying "Temporarily Unavailable" for the past week or so.

Can this be looked into somewhat?

Thanks,
Jim

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