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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: November 23, 2014, 08:01:39 PM »

To save money I would assume. When it comes to STARs, they would only have to worry about maintaining the IS2 rather than the IS/IS2 together on different feeds. That's just my guess though.

Yeah.  I think it's a whole lot easier just having to deal with one "feed" or format.  As has been discussed here a lot, many other stations just letterbox their HD feed for SD, ESPN/ESPN2 being a prime example that comes to my mind at this point.

If the headend has switched over to the HD feed simulcast for The Weather Channel, that I guess that means they no longer want their SD IntelliSTAR units, right? If that's the case, then I guess that the headend would have to send the units back to TWC HQ, wouldn't they? 

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TWC Fan Art / Re: TWCJim's Artwork

« on: November 23, 2014, 07:47:24 PM »

My TWC advisory scroll concepts:


Orange:




Yellow:




Red:




IMO, TWC should have used these concepts instead of what they have now because the text is sometimes hard to read, and the news ticker that runs below the crawl creates a distraction whenever I'm trying to read the weather advisory.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 23, 2014, 02:07:30 PM »

A small but strong thunderstorm rolled through my area about a couple of hours ago, and because of that the NWS issued this rare Tornado Warning. 

TWC Tornado Warning + IntelliSTAR- Astoria, OR- Nov. 23, 2014- 9:17AM PST

Sorry for the double post BTW. I was a little overexcited. 

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: November 22, 2014, 12:09:04 PM »

My SD IntelliStar has been replaced with the IS2 HD.

Yeah it seems that pretty much every Comcast headend (and perhaps a few others) has been replacing their TWC SD feeds with a letterboxed simulcast of their TWC HD feeds. I wonder why. 

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: November 21, 2014, 08:20:59 PM »

I do not have company coming over for Thanksgiving next week.

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 21, 2014, 08:18:52 PM »

I'm purposely double-posting here as I fear that I've upset some of you all.  I'm sorry for all my emotional posts lately, but I really have been struggling.  Are you all okay with me, or is there something each of you would want to tell me so that I don't scare you all in the future?

No worries Patrick.    You haven't scared me away or anything like that. I totally understand about the troubles you've been going through recently, believe me. Wishing you the very best of luck, man. 

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: November 21, 2014, 05:07:00 PM »

53º Light Rain. I'm under a High Wind Warning until 7PM PT this evening. The strong winds that are constantly blowing the heavy rain against the siding of my house is driving me nuts!

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: November 21, 2014, 05:02:36 PM »

I noticed that the cities on the SD local have changed and are the same as the HD local...

The cities on my SD STAR haven't changed. 

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TWC Fan Art / Re: TWCJim's Artwork

« on: November 18, 2014, 05:21:05 PM »

Recently, I did a new re-editing of all of the 33 Weatherscan music tracks. I still had all of the master audio recordings on my computer, which were recorded back in 2011 when I was living in Spokane and had Comcast and Weatherscan. I figured, what the hey, and decided to re-edit out the interrupting Vocal Local narrations.

To go along with the new re-edits, I also decided to make new CD artwork, yet again.    This time, I made new artwork for the front and the back covers. Here they are:


Front Cover




Back Cover





The artwork was designed using Adobe Photoshop CS5, as always.    IMO, this is probably the best version of the Wxscan Music CD Artwork that I've ever made, compared to the previous versions. 

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General Weather Chat / Re: What's the weather in your area?

« on: November 14, 2014, 11:48:14 AM »

27º Sunny. Coldest temperature so far this season in my area. 

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Bug Reports / Extended/Boating Forecast config error

« on: November 13, 2014, 07:59:58 PM »

While I was loading the emulator this evening, both the extended and boating forecast pages were blank (see screenshots below). I went to my config page and attempted to reset the forecast zones for both the boating and extended forecast products, but I got this error message:

NWS Zone: orz001


Data from NWS does not provide tabular Extended forecast data, try a close neighboring state.

I tried different NWS zones for both products, but wound up with the same error message each time.

Can this be looked into?

My STAR ID is TWCJim.

UPDATE: The NWS Zone configs are now working again. Thanks! 

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General Discussion / Re: Recent music purchases

« on: November 11, 2014, 11:55:10 PM »

Pink Floyd's newly-released CD "The Endless River". Love it! 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: November 09, 2014, 01:13:54 PM »

Wow, The Weather Channel has really gone waaay downhill this week.   

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General Discussion / Re: The Pot Belly Stove

« on: November 03, 2014, 01:35:00 AM »

WTF...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4ba6WqLBjI

He wasn't actually doing what most people thought he was doing.  I'm pretty sure he was just on his cell phone...

That was what I thought he was doing at first, but when I watched that video again it looked like he had a phone as you said or something else in his hand and was putting it in a zipper bag.

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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you

« on: November 02, 2014, 01:18:08 PM »

Banned because this is my 1500th post to date on this forum.