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Programming and Graphics / Re: Another Flick and a Forecast situation is happening

« on: June 23, 2011, 01:32:00 PM »

Quote from: WeatherWitness on June 23, 2011, 12:23:22 PM

As far as the XL, I thought TWC was eventually going to phase it out. I could be wrong (since the IS is more expensive, right?), but I have been to a few places that used to have an XL and now have an IS. Thus, this would explain why the XL is not getting updates for the LDL, squeezeback, etc.

Well, they shouldn't phase it out. The XL is still completely usable, they can simply keep the icons and graphics as is, but the LDL needs to be shown.

And is it too hard to make a squeezeback? All simply does is make 3 pieces show that change for 2 minutes (CC, other weather info, time)

The IS doesn't do any work, TWC does, they make the video compress and do the background. Even if they are too lazy, or there isn't enough hard drive space, then they can AT LEAST cue an LDL. There's a bit of room for that. There's no ad shown to the ~~right~~ left, so excuses:completely invalid.

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: March Field, CA XL issues

« on: June 23, 2011, 01:11:48 PM »

Thank you very much!

What's the SBD? I didn't know that there's Jr's and 4000s nearby. If I read your post earlier, I would've been able to confirm whether everything was fixed.

Also: Victorville will definitely work for a city, Apple Valley may be best, since when you go back down the mountain, that's where you hit if you take the highway down, but Victorville isn't too far.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: June 23, 2011, 06:54:02 AM »

Layla was on at :58, it ROCKED on the XL!


WeatherSTAR XL- Layla on WUWA

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Possibility on a Local Across the 48s soon?

« on: June 23, 2011, 05:40:06 AM »

Man, if only it was today. I could've gotten an XL clip! (last day up in Big Bear)

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Another Flick and a Forecast situation is happening

« on: June 23, 2011, 05:34:21 AM »

Why am I not surprised... The 30 minute updates have an up and down to them.

The up? Some areas don't have the IS. However, i'm sure that's not the reasons since if they killed the legacy LDLs (for when they had the big and small LDL, not anymore so excuse:invalid) plus not having a squeezeback (enjoy that national forecast for cities that can be far far away, take Big Bear for example, that's in the mountains!) then obviously that's not the reason.

However, the 30 minute interval keeps the updates sooner than they used to have them when they had

and a

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The down? Well, Severe weather can strike in an instant. Since TWC obviously could care less about anything weather these days, then obviously of course they won't utilize the dual feed. That right there, is laziness, just like as I mentioned the LDLs and squeezebacks. the XL can AT LEAST show an LDL during that time, or if they devoted a little time, make a squeezeback, it's capable of doing so, they just have their heads in the clouds working with the new equipment leaving older ones at a disadvantage. I bet the IS will no longer be getting anymore updates, since the IS2 is rolling out.

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / March Field, CA XL issues

« on: June 22, 2011, 01:46:12 PM »

Hi STAR Team, I noticed a couple issues with the XL here. I'm not certain of the ID since it shows a period however, that's one of the issues though.

Another issue is on the Regional observation cities, Norton AFB needs to be removed. Norton AFB hasn't existed since 1994! (at least that's what wikipedia said) That explains why it has always said no report available. The channel it's on is 46, in case you need to know the channel for the STAR ID. If that can be fixed, that would be awesome, thanks.

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Audio issues

« on: June 22, 2011, 01:37:15 PM »

It's not a TWC issue, they always say that since they are unaware of the fact that an Intellistar is in their headend.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 22, 2011, 02:29:15 AM »

Thanks. I wonder, since everyone thought Air Quality was discontinued, doesn't that mean that the 4000 AQ was not discontinued? (Being that said 4000 was in California)

I'm sure this one had it since its high up in the mountains.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 21, 2011, 08:14:04 PM »

:O What's this? An XL with regional (blank) CC map and AQ Forecast?


Marchfield Weatherstar XL with Air Quality Forecast

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / IS #022272 Constant Issues

« on: June 08, 2011, 04:39:48 PM »

I honestly think this unit needs to be replaced... It's been reset at least once a day, yesterday twice, and it still gets nowhere.

Sometimes it won't switch properly between products, shown in the video below.


Intellistar Product Switching Issues (June 5, 2011- 6:08 PM)

This happens every now and then, it's an off and on issue.

Then there's some instances where the video freezes and then the IS resets after showing a gray screen (Happened again at 1:20 PM 6/8)-