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General Discussion / Re: My Scripted Series

« on: December 10, 2013, 10:26:49 PM »

It didn't dawn on me until this week, but the 12th (Thursday) will be the 10th anniversary since I wrote my first script for this series. I was in the 5th grade at the time. Time really flew by fast!

Anyway, I'm currently working on developing a new project and this one is much more ambitious because I want to turn it into an internet series on Youtube within the next 1-2 years. Long time I know, but I want to take my time to do it right.

The unofficial name of the series would be "Misguided or Misunderstood Missile" or simply just "Missile"

Below is brief summary of what I'm thinking for the pilot...
A young, shy, and socially awkward (age not decided yet) teenage boy by the name of Missile Parker has his world turned upside down once he learns his father (Warren Parker) is being arrested for tax evasion, leaving Missile virtually parent-less. In the meantime, Missile travels thousands of miles to (city location not decided yet) on the apartment doorsteps of his older estranged brother Rocket Parker. After getting off on the wrong foot from the start, the two brothers try to cope and adjust to their new temporary living arrangements, even though the new living arrangement puts a disruption on Rocket's life before Missile arrived.

Possible Cities I'm thinking of for the series to take place...
-Portland, OR or MA
-Boston, MA
-Seattle, WA
-San Francisco, CA

^ I'm trying to go for locations where there's a high number of folks identified as "Hipsters" for this series to take place in.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 10, 2013, 04:36:04 PM »

Before everyone gets all hot under the collar about a f**king information bar, could you all please just shut up and consider the fact that maybe, just maybe the engineers at TWC who make it their job to design and run this stuff are working on it? I know...it's a novel idea. The arguments y'all front sometimes are just so pathetic. Some of you really need to take a step back occasionally and realize....you're getting worked up over a cable television network's info bar. Perspective, please.

The whole thing was partly a misunderstanding on my part. No offense, but it seems like you're one getting all worked up about something that blew over two days ago.

The exchange that occurred between me and Eric is fairly tame compared to some of the other pointless stuff that's been argued or spatted over the past couple of years on this forum.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 08, 2013, 11:49:47 PM »

The general consensus in this forum is that I am generally wrong. Full stop.

You put those words in your own mouth, I never said you were wrong. In fact if the transparent LDL was the "technical limitations" you were alluding to in your post, then clearly I was wrong. I wasn't aware something as simple as the transparent LDL would be the issue for the absent national weather info. Obviously I was ignorant to how/why they chose to do this.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 08, 2013, 08:42:30 PM »

The whole premise of Weather All The Time is that it's "Weather All The Time" regardless of whether it's local or national weather. My point was they aren't even showing national weather during long form programming or the commercials when those shows are on. That would technically be where the false advertising comes into play if they aren't even providing viewers with that.

I never said anything about it's false advertising because they aren't providing local information for those who have Satellite or those who have HD and no IS2 so I'm not sure where that's coming from. In fact, my statement was strictly talking about viewers who have HD, but no IS2. It had nothing to do with Satellite viewers because I have no idea what those viewers are seeing anyway (unless I saw an image or video).

As I said, there are technological limitations that can't be overcome easily.  Do you think, because of those limitations, TWC never should have advertised "weather all the time" in the first place?  As I already said, from the first day TWC was designed for cable TV, not for satellite. It airs on satellite to gain more of an audience, but the local forecast segments just can't be configured for direct to home satellite television.

I really don't think you're understanding what I've been saying since the beginning. I NEVER said local forecasts should be shown/programmed on the HD LDL or Satellite LDL. I don't know why you keep reinventing an argument I never made in the first place. I don't have satellite, I have cable, but I also have an HD feed that's never had an IS2 and has always showed national weather. The point of both the original and last post I made was over the fact that we're not even getting national weather except only during live programming.

Also, there's no "technological limitations" to displaying national weather on a HD national LDL. They do it during live programming/commercials, they can certainly do it during non- live programming point, blank, and simple.

EDIT: That fact that I've explained my statement clearly three times already has gotten very repetitive, we're just going in circles so I'll leave as it is after this.

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Forecasting / Re: Fall/Winter Weather Discussion Thread

« on: December 08, 2013, 06:14:42 PM »

Places to the S&W of me are picking up a good amount of snow. Places around Philly are nearing 10" of snow! Good for them. They usually get rain when we get big snow storms. Only looking at around 1" tonight before we go to all rain. That ocean...

Isn't it supposed to change over to rain there also?

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

« on: December 08, 2013, 05:58:31 PM »

44°F Fog/Drizzle - Temp pretty much stationary from 12 hrs ago.

Man, it sure has been dreary this week. More rain coming tonight.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Comcast/Xfinity

« on: December 08, 2013, 01:02:32 PM »

Oh God NO! 

Are Time Warner Cable and Comcast Aiming for a Merger?
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/are-time-warner-cable-and-comcast-aiming-for-a-merger.html/?ref=YF

If this happens, the number of cord cutters will surely skyrocket. I didn't know until I read this article that Comcast had share in Hulu, haven't these people bought up enough companies as it is?

EDIT: It's mentioned in the article, but Charter was also interested in merging with Time Warner Cable.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 08, 2013, 11:07:35 AM »

The LDL still remains blank (during long-form and commercials) on the HD feed for those who don't have the IS2 and only the national forecast. I'm a bit perplexed as to why after almost a month this is still the case. It's like Zach said, it's false advertising, not that I'm all that surprised.

I don't think it's false advertising.  The whole premise of The Weather Channel's local forecasts since the very beginning was for cable headends to use Stars.  The system was designed before there even was direct to home satellite television, and because of the technical limitations of satellite as opposed to cable, there's just no way to get localized information to satellite viewers unless each individual satellite receiver becomes capable of being an IntelliStar in miniature.  (The best that the receivers can do right now doesn't even come close.)

The only way longform programming could have a satellite feed LDL is to make the whole LDL non-transparent.  SD viewers are stuck with that, but that's because of aspect ratios, and it actually makes good use of what would otherwise be empty space on the screen.  But HD is where the television industry does and should focus their attention, and I can fully understand why a non-transparent LDL on the screen during longform all the time isn't something that TWC wants.

A claim of false advertising would have to mean that The Weather Channel deliberately deceived viewers by promising weather all the time but failed to deliver on that and knowing that they wouldn't be able to do so in the first place.  Keeping in mind that The Weather Channel was designed for cable, and keeping in mind that satellite has different technical parameters that prevents the use of localization, TWC is keeping its promise.  It's not up to them to redesign the whole way direct to home satellite television works, and it's not up to them to design satellite receivers with their own Stars. Localization does not work with satellite... unless TWC wants to broadcast a unique feed for every single Star location in the country.  They'd need their own fleet of satellites to do that.

The whole premise of Weather All The Time is that it's "Weather All The Time" regardless of whether it's local or national weather. My point was they aren't even showing national weather during long form programming or the commercials when those shows are on. That would technically be where the false advertising comes into play if they aren't even providing viewers with that.

I never said anything about it's false advertising because they aren't providing local information for those who have Satellite or those who have HD and no IS2 so I'm not sure where that's coming from. In fact, my statement was strictly talking about viewers who have HD, but no IS2. It had nothing to do with Satellite viewers because I have no idea what those viewers are seeing anyway (unless I saw an image or video).

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New Graphics coming to TWC

« on: December 08, 2013, 12:22:29 AM »

This post is regarding the issue about the text  for the weekend being hard to read on the 7 day, there's a fairly quick and easy way to fix this: Add the dark pillar bars to "SAT" and "SUN" and there will never be an issue of the BG interfering with the text.

Also about the city markers on the local/regional radars: Add the light gray rectangle they use for the radars on live programming underneath the city names to make it easier to read when there's precipitation.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, there's an example below. Those are just my two cents though.

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

« on: December 08, 2013, 12:01:29 AM »

45.1°F Overcast

Glad to be more near normal, being in the 60s to near 70 all night and during the day this week in December just doesn't sit right with me.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: General TWC Discussion

« on: December 07, 2013, 11:55:49 PM »

The LDL still remains blank (during long-form and commercials) on the HD feed for those who don't have the IS2 and only the national forecast. I'm a bit perplexed as to why after almost a month this is still the case. It's like Zach said, it's false advertising, not that I'm all that surprised.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Weatherlover's Artwork

« on: December 06, 2013, 10:35:51 PM »

Followup....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCQbwnsZkXw&feature=youtu.be

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Winter Weather / Re: Winter Storm Cleon

« on: December 05, 2013, 09:19:28 PM »

We see this year after year with arctic cold fronts, but the extreme temperature gradients across the US is nothing short of MIND BLOWING! Today was the first time in two months we had to turn the heat off because it was too warm and muggy outside.

I hope everyone is staying safe, I heard that areas not far NW of Fort Smith, AR have already reported 1/2 inch of ice!

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

« on: December 05, 2013, 09:15:04 PM »

What a difference one week makes, last week we had half an inch of snow. Today, we were 72° and will be in record territory tomorrow with low to mid 70's!

I hate SE Ridges.

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OCMs & Personalities / Re: New to TWC

« on: December 04, 2013, 06:16:20 PM »

TWC offered Sam something he couldn't refuse and ABC couldn't give him: the management position and his very own show. No amount of money (which I've read was an enormous amount) was enough to get him to turn down that offer. Also it hasn't been mentioned, but I'm sure in the meantime while TWC is ironing out the details to Sam Champion's show, Sam will be popping up on the TODAY show soon. It would make sense given NBC still owns part of TWC.

http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/02/news/companies/sam-champion-leaving-abc/
^They also make comparisons between how Sam's sudden departure was handled compared to Ann Curry's sudden departure at NBC.