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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Show: "Tipping Points" and "Plane Xtreme"

« on: August 03, 2012, 10:26:25 PM »

Unfortunately, the shows are here to stay and they will never go away, and we the viewers cannot do anything about it    IMO it's best to either stick with it or stop watching TWC altogether. Simply complaining about how lame these shows or anything like that won't change anything. TWC is just trying to attract more viewers (and perhaps maybe a younger generation of viewers) and trying to earn more money, despite the fact they probably have millions of it already. Let's just do what's best for TWC and learn to live with it, whether we like or not.

TWCJim has spoken....

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: August 03, 2012, 10:13:16 PM »

I am not attempting to record and catch an advisory scroll for a heat advisory that does not go into effect tomorrow 

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: August 03, 2012, 05:22:38 PM »

Astoria and Long Beach will not go under a heat advisory because of near 90-degree temps that are forecast for tomorrow 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 03, 2012, 04:42:02 PM »

Jim, have you also checked on the pctvsystems web site to see if your drivers are to date? You may have to reinstall your tuner's drivers as well. If you want to, I could try to remotely help you via Teamviewer, but it's up to you.

I gave that a shot, but Windows had determined that the driver for the PCTV device is up to date. Also, the program w-lanTV says "No PCTV device found!" Are there any other options you can think of that I can try to do?

Again, I can help you out through remote support via Teamviewer if you want, but if you do this, please make sure that no personal stuff is on your desktop. Also, did you reinstall the drivers?

Yeah I tried that too, but no luck    I'll pass on the Teamviewer offer, but I think I'll try and work on the issue myself some more if I can. I definitely appreciate you trying to help me though, believe me. Thanks again for trying 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 03, 2012, 04:16:17 PM »

Jim, have you also checked on the pctvsystems web site to see if your drivers are to date? You may have to reinstall your tuner's drivers as well. If you want to, I could try to remotely help you via Teamviewer, but it's up to you.

I gave that a shot, but Windows had determined that the driver for the PCTV device is up to date. Also, the program w-lanTV says "No PCTV device found!" Are there any other options you can think of that I can try to do?

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 03, 2012, 03:41:21 PM »

I tried scanning for channels using TVCenter for three hours, and it found nothing at all    so I gave up on it.

Only Media Center recognizes the PCTV stick but not TVCenter itself so no HD TWC clips from me anytime soon  The program only picks up the analog cable channels and it does not support ClearQAM at the moment 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 02, 2012, 11:29:12 PM »

Under signal source in the hardware tab of TVCenter Settings Wizard, I had set the TV Antenna source to Cable. The scanning part takes forever, which I'll try again in the morning, unless I forgot something 

You can set it to do a quick scan..



From the Channel Scan tab, click on "Advanced Options" and then change the scan mode to quick. But be aware it scans from frequency 1 through 125, so it could be a bit legnthy.

Okay, I'll take a look at that in the morning. I'll be sure to let you know if it goes well or not 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 02, 2012, 11:10:37 PM »

I hope someone here who is experienced might help me with this dilemma...

My Pinnacle USB tuner stick came in the mail today. While trying it out on my laptop with Windows 7, I ran into a brick wall. I installed Pinnacle TVCenter on my laptop, plugged in my coax (with Charter Limited Basic Cable) into the tuner USB stick, then scanned for channels using TVCenter, and so far no channels from either ClearQAM or Analog have came through. Did I screw something up, or does this tuner usually take forever to scan for channels? 

If none of this seems clear to you, let me know and I'll try to explain this further and clearer if needed.

I had a Pinnacle device some time ago. It would take a while to scan. Try restarting a couple times

So far I was able to get only the analog channels via Windows Media Center (it does not support ClearQAM.) I seem to have been impatient so that's why I hit a brick wall while scanning for the channels via Pinnacle TVCenter. Maybe I'll try another channel scan with TVCenter tomorrow morning and let it go for a while to see if it picks up all of the channels, including all of the available digital channels as well as a few HD channels  

You need to switch it in the settings from Antenna to Cable

Under signal source in the hardware tab of TVCenter Settings Wizard, I had set the TV Antenna source to Cable. The scanning part takes forever, which I'll try again in the morning, unless I forgot something 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 02, 2012, 10:56:38 PM »

I hope someone here who is experienced might help me with this dilemma...

My Pinnacle USB tuner stick came in the mail today. While trying it out on my laptop with Windows 7, I ran into a brick wall. I installed Pinnacle TVCenter on my laptop, plugged in my coax (with Charter Limited Basic Cable) into the tuner USB stick, then scanned for channels using TVCenter, and so far no channels from either ClearQAM or Analog have came through. Did I screw something up, or does this tuner usually take forever to scan for channels? 

If none of this seems clear to you, let me know and I'll try to explain this further and clearer if needed.

I had a Pinnacle device some time ago. It would take a while to scan. Try restarting a couple times

So far I was able to get only the analog channels via Windows Media Center (it does not support ClearQAM.) I seem to have been impatient so that's why I hit a brick wall while scanning for the channels via Pinnacle TVCenter. Maybe I'll try another channel scan with TVCenter tomorrow morning and let it go for a while to see if it picks up all of the channels, including all of the available digital channels as well as a few HD channels    

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 02, 2012, 07:33:42 PM »

I hope someone here who is experienced might help me with this dilemma...

My Pinnacle USB tuner stick came in the mail today. While trying it out on my laptop with Windows 7, I ran into a brick wall. I installed Pinnacle TVCenter on my laptop, plugged in my coax (with Charter Limited Basic Cable) into the tuner USB stick, then scanned for channels using TVCenter, and so far no channels from either ClearQAM or Analog have came through. Did I screw something up, or does this tuner usually take forever to scan for channels? 

If none of this seems clear to you, let me know and I'll try to explain this further and clearer if needed.

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General Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself! (For New Members)

« on: August 01, 2012, 07:01:33 PM »

Hello there Trevorton    Welcome!

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game

« on: July 31, 2012, 08:13:50 AM »

I'm heading over to Seattle today to visit an exhibit at the EMP museum, then I'm picking up an old friend at SeaTac who is flying in from Phoenix to visit me and my girlfriend for the next few days imp 

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The Game Room / Re: "In my pants" Game

« on: July 30, 2012, 11:59:40 AM »

Is it tomorrow yet imp? 

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: July 30, 2012, 10:44:39 AM »

At some NWS offices they have their Doppler radar detect strong/severe thunderstorms all the time (like the offices in Spokane, WA or in Portland, OR) and at other offices the meteorologists detect the storms themselves all the time (like the office in Phoenix.)

I wonder why some offices have radars that detect severe weather and others have the meteorologists that detect the storms themselves 

It's just different wording in the warning templates that each office has chosen.  Radar is a tool that helps meteorologists determine if a thunderstorm is severe or not.

Ahh, I understand now! Thanks 


I, too, like Trevor's 2012 Olympics banner. Very nice

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday Evan2015!

« on: July 30, 2012, 01:01:29 AM »

Happy birthday