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Severe Weather / Re: Severe Weather Season 2012

« on: May 29, 2012, 09:41:05 PM »

I'm becoming concerned for Friday here. I'm not as much of an expert in the severe weather department when it comes to the models, but from what I've been hearing it's not going to be pleasant. Last night one of our local mets said the setup was very potent and reminded him of something we would see in March rather than the first of June. Heck, even TWC has been red tagging the LF about for two days, never seen them keep up notice for that long before.

EDIT: In the meantime, we might have these to contend with. Who wants to bet $100 these storms fizzle out before they get to I-85?

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General Discussion / Re: A Couple of Questions If You Guys Don't Mind...

« on: May 29, 2012, 06:59:25 PM »

Sorry for the double post, but I've done some more digging around today about component cables and I was wondering are component cables (green/blue/red) generally show a better video quality than composite (yellow/white/red) cables? Throwing out what I said about recording true HD quality, would it at least be a step ahead in video quality than the composite setup I'm using now? I'm not trying to come up with an excuse to keep from upgrading, I've been planning on getting a new tuner for a couple of years now, but I've always heard and read that was the case, but I don't know because I've never tried them myself to test that theory. 

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: May 29, 2012, 12:27:09 PM »

3am-5am First Outlook - Jeff and Adam.
5am-5:30am YWT Maria and Jen.
5:30am-7am WUWA Stephanie NYC, Jen and Maria ATL.
7am-11am Jen and Maria.
11am-3pm Nick and Vivian.
3pm-7pm Warren and Heather.
7pm-11pm Kim and Chris.

Is this a new schedule lineup?

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General Discussion / Re: A Couple of Questions If You Guys Don't Mind...

« on: May 29, 2012, 09:16:55 AM »

Thank you Zach,

Getting a new tuner was my plan B anyway, but I wanted to make sure before I bought one. I was thinking about getting a HD PVR  like you suggested.

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General Discussion / A Couple of Questions If You Guys Don't Mind...

« on: May 29, 2012, 01:13:02 AM »

I have a question to ask for those who are interested in watching this as a favor for me. I started using my TV tuner with Windows Media Center tonight (Will be Tuesday for most of you all when you see this) and I was wondering does this video look like it's at least 720p HD quality? The video quality has NEVER looked this great when using my TV Tuner as a standalone, it usually looks grainy. (SD and HD) I guess that's because I still use a VCR  to connect the other end of the coaxial cable from the tuner.

Does This Video Look Like It's In HD Quality?

That actually leads me to my next question. Anyone know or can help me find any info on how to set up my WinTV HVR 850 tuner directly with my Comcast HD Set Up Box? I really just want a better way to watch and record shows without having to use a VCR anymore. I wanna be able to get HD quality or at the least better video quality than what I am getting using my VCR/Coaxial Cable/A/V cables.

Thanks for any ounce of help you can give!

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

« on: May 28, 2012, 03:39:14 PM »

87, with a few clouds.

One of Beryl's rain bands is inching closer and closer to me. I hope it gets here. We could use the rainfall too. Not as bad as our neighbors south of us, but still we are technically in a moderate drought (about 3 inches behind for the year)

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Forecasting / Re: Ask The Weather Expert!

« on: May 28, 2012, 02:40:49 PM »

They did the same thing in Indy, but there they were expecting the heat index to hover close to 100 along with some areas reaching record highs.

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Emulator Videos / Re: Weatherlover's Emulations

« on: May 28, 2012, 02:16:19 PM »

Final Draft Video
I studied over various different still images of the 4000 to get the background, blue template, extended forecast templates, and the orange titlebar as accurate as possible. The radar once again I take absolutely no credit for. That is from the 4000 v3 emulator. I'm just using it temporarily until I can finish drawing up together some county outlines/interstate outlines to go with the Intellicast radars which I'll be using as my radar source.

About half of the info is accurate, (mainly the local forecast segment)

You have to download or open the attachment to see the video. (File size - 6.23mb)

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Local Forecast / Re: Songs you want to hear again on the LF

« on: May 28, 2012, 02:12:05 PM »

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - The West County

EDIT:
Moby - J Breas
Jeff Lorber - The Simple Life
Trance Fury - Shock-Denial
James Brown - Locomotion
Trammell Starks - Takin' It Easy and In The Summer (On an actual playlist, not as backup music)
Joyce Cooling - Don't Mind If I Do
Bryan Savage - Scenic Route
Jeanne Ricks - Clea's Day

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

« on: May 28, 2012, 12:06:44 PM »

I changed my username to reflect my obsession of the 4000. My life would be completely fulfilled if I could actually get to see one in person imp.  I did see it once or twice back when I was 5, but my memory is fuzzy, the orange/blue/purple background is what stuck out to me in my mind imp.

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The Game Room / Re: Ban the Person above you

« on: May 28, 2012, 11:56:42 AM »

Banned because your avatar suggests your more than ready for Hurricane Season.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: May 28, 2012, 11:33:03 AM »

Looks like the 90-second flavors started playing at :28 and :58 each hour as well during the Weekend Morning Hours.

So if these 90-second flavors are part of all weekend shows, DP, and WCL at :28/:58 now, when are they not used?  I thought someone said not all shows were like this.  I would have to guess YWT and WUWA by process of elimination.   (But that might not be right.)

They may have just expanded over to the morning shows this morning.

I saw a 2 min flavor at 28/58 past on YWT this morning so they're still showing there.

On the topic of air quality, I thought I remember seeing a LF on YT where the AQ forecast showed a red level. I could be wrong though. This was a few years ago if I'm remembering right.

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Emulator Videos / Re: Weatherlover's Emulations

« on: May 27, 2012, 11:45:42 PM »

Conditions out of Jacksonville within the past 90 minutes

Song featured in both videos is "Takin' It Easy" by Trammell Starks. His music may not live on through TWC anymore, but it still does here.

Tropical Storm Beryl Bears Down On Jacksonville & the Southeast Coast

Tropical Storm Beryl Blows Through Jacksonville, FL and the Southeast Coast pt.2

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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Beryl (former Subropical Storm)

« on: May 27, 2012, 07:51:19 PM »

Winds up to 70mph, pressure continues to drop, down to 992mb...This girl isn't giving up without a good fight.

...BERYL NEAR HURRICANE STRENGTH...TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ALREADY ON THE COAST...
8:00 PM EDT Sun May 27
Location: 30.1°N 80.5°W
Max sustained: 70 mph
Moving: W at 10 mph
Min pressure: 992 mb

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Hurricane Central / Re: Tropical Storm Beryl (former Subropical Storm)

« on: May 27, 2012, 05:55:33 PM »

Latest Advisory winds remain the same at 65mph, but pressure dropped to 996mb. It should be bearing down on Jacksonville between 8-10pm tonight if it stays on it's current pace.