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Local Forecast / Re: No Marine Forecasts on DirecTV LFs

« on: August 03, 2012, 11:55:34 PM »

The DirecTV forecast is already limited enough to where even important non-coastal products could be displayed, so no for me. Also, if I were you, I wouldn't rely on TWC at all for marinal and tidal information.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 03, 2012, 11:13:50 PM »

Wow, according to stats, today has been the most active day on the TWC Today/TWC Classics forums in all of 2012 so far!

i think its safe official to say that the inactivity from a week or so ago has finally ended 

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The Game Room / Re: Yes or No Question

« on: August 03, 2012, 11:10:28 PM »

Yes

Is it humid where you live now?

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: August 03, 2012, 11:10:01 PM »

i own a dslr camera

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General Discussion / Re: Gas prices in your area

« on: August 03, 2012, 11:09:29 PM »

The markets have come back up in the past month, so the prices are following the course as well.  It's now up to $3.35 per gallon in my area.

yeah prices around tampa are running around the same rate

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

« on: August 03, 2012, 11:08:29 PM »

70°F Fair.. 

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The Game Room / Re: Lie your Butt Off

« on: August 03, 2012, 09:13:03 PM »

I got an email from Melissa saying smooth jazz will return to the playlists in September.

That didn't scare me for a second.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: TWC No Audio

« on: August 03, 2012, 08:52:34 PM »

Just post a topic in STAR Tech support

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Do you think other cable compaines will drop TWC?

« on: August 03, 2012, 06:57:55 PM »

I doubt so. One factor is that a cable company would have to be in a dispute with TWC's owner, NBC (maybe even Comcast), but because NBC and Comcast own a large portion of cable networks, I don't see it happening.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: TWC Acquires....Wunderground!?!?!?!

« on: August 03, 2012, 06:55:13 PM »

Many forecast offices broadcast their streams online already. Its a nice feature but sadly one that is becoming outdated and doesn't impact that many people.

Really?! Because even on the NWS stream page, a lot of the streams link to Wunderground.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 03, 2012, 04:29:54 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?

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 03, 2012, 03:44:13 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.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: This is not your grandfather's weather channel

« on: August 03, 2012, 09:23:46 AM »

I looked at the schedule and I was mortified at what I saw. Especially Pyros. What does pyrotechnics have to do with weather anyway?

I know, right? I was trying to record LOT8's at my beach house on Sunday and because of the pyrotechnics show, they only showed the LDL! NOT EVEN THE L-BAR! Better luck today (HOPEFULLY)...

they dont even show the squeezeback during longform unless the live weather update is running

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 02, 2012, 11:14:03 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.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: August 02, 2012, 11:02:56 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