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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 09, 2008, 08:58:52 PM »

Great videos, Andrew and Grgeiger. Always nice to see the legacy STARs in action.

This is an interesting TCF glitch on Grgeiger's Junior that I noticed:



Wonder what caused the background to fail for a split second?

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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 09, 2008, 08:10:10 PM »

Here is mine. It includes the A&B commercial, station ID, LF opener, local forecast, and top of the hour bumper.

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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:56:04 PM »

Less than three minutes. Get ready!

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The Game Room / Re: Word Association

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:54:38 PM »

Plot

(Smarty Jones is a racehorse that won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 2004)

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Contributions / Re: travisallens weather star xl screen shots

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:53:16 PM »

Travis, just curious... why did you create a new user account?

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Al Roker on A&B

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:12:01 PM »

Did they say exactly why he was in ATL yesterday?

They probably sent him down to Atlanta to promote/announce the whole "NBC buys TWC" thing.

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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 09, 2008, 07:07:58 PM »

Just a reminder, we're ~50 minutes away from recording time.

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General Discussion / Re: VCRs?

« on: July 09, 2008, 06:55:07 PM »

To bump this topic...

I'm seriously considering getting a DVD recorder. I think I've found one that has everything I'm looking for in it, but I've never used a DVD recorder before, so I can't be completely sure.

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5622736

The price is right, and the reviews I've read seems to be pretty much positive. I may get it tomorrow.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: July 09, 2008, 05:14:16 PM »

Oh, on another note, it looks like there's more than one station ID now; they used a different lake scene this morning.

I'll have to look for that one. BTW, I thought of this last night: If we're now seeing HD station IDs, then that means the HD STAR could be right around the corner. Since HD satellite viewers currently don't use a STAR, the only ones that could take advantage of an HD station ID would be those with cable and an HD STAR.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Blooper Thread

« on: July 09, 2008, 05:12:09 PM »

At 5:05 PM ET, when they were showing a satellite picture of Bertha, there was a fragment of the northeast forecast map stuck on the upper left corner of the screen. The titlebar looked like it said "NATELLITE VIEW."

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Everything Else TWC / Re: The Weather Channel | HD Discussion

« on: July 09, 2008, 05:04:59 PM »

We're back to the key walls for PME again today.

Are you sure? It looked like Sam was at the video wall, just they had the camera zoomed in way too far.

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TWC Today News / Re: LAT48's, part tres

« on: July 09, 2008, 04:35:36 PM »

Thanks.. My recorder will make it about a 35 meg MPG file is there a type of software or shareware that will crunch it down? It looks like I am limited to 9000 KB in the message attachment.

If you're using Windows Me and above, you can run the video through Windows Movie Maker and compress the file down significantly.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: July 09, 2008, 04:30:59 PM »

I'm probably going to go down to the beach the first weekend of August. If they actually give me off work, and everything works out, it will be the first time I've been to the beach since 2003. I would've liked to go to Cape May, NJ, and that's where my parents were going to take me at the beginning of summer, but they canceled the plans because they didn't want to leave the cat alone for all that time.  So now I'm probably going to go to Ocean City, MD with my sister and her friend. My sister's friend's family owns a beach house down there. I hope they have cable so I can see what STAR they have.

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General Discussion / Re: Gas prices in your area

« on: July 09, 2008, 04:26:11 PM »

Went down from $3.99 to $3.95 today.

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General Discussion / Re: Happy Birthday Jae!

« on: July 09, 2008, 11:39:43 AM »

Happy birthday, Jae. Have a great one.