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Contributions / Re: Local Across the 48s Winter 2010 Submissions

« on: December 21, 2010, 10:49:59 PM »

Comcast Cable.  Baltimore County Maryland. 
Intellistar
Star ID: 22470

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TWC Today News / Re: Local Across the 48s Winter 2010

« on: December 21, 2010, 10:42:17 PM »

Should I upload it by attaching it to my post or should I post it somewhere else such as YouTube and link to it?
It is in .mpg format and is about 90mb.  I apologize for it not being in mp4; I saw the email about this about 20 minutes before 8:58pm and was making a mad dash to catch it!  I could see if I can convert it.

I used VirtualDub and XviD compression to get mine down to 31 MB if that helps

I was just successful in converting it to mp4 with the new size at about 28mb but I will keep your suggestion in mind.  Thanks.

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TWC Today News / Re: Local Across the 48s Winter 2010

« on: December 21, 2010, 09:16:02 PM »

Should I upload it by attaching it to my post or should I post it somewhere else such as YouTube and link to it?
It is in .mpg format and is about 90mb.  I apologize for it not being in mp4; I saw the email about this about 20 minutes before 8:58pm and was making a mad dash to catch it!  I could see if I can convert it.

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Local Forecast / Re: OMG!!!

« on: November 03, 2009, 10:12:21 PM »

Yes!! He posted two more!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwfVFzqcMF4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSoiYEIfQdY


I know the song in the first one is Foundwind by Shadowfax, but does anyone know the second one? Sounds like Artie Traum...

Anyway, this is the first time in years that I've seen the CC screen, regional obs, or latest obs for my area's 4000 in years! I'm actually very surprised at how closely I was able to remember everything for the emulator. The only thing I noticed is that his CC location is Baltimore, and I know for a FACT that mine was Martin Airport. He lives in Baltimore County too, but maybe he lives in a different area than I do or something...

Sorry to raise this thread from the dead but I wanted to respond to this.  The star 4000 in question did indeed use Martin Airport as the primary location for several years.  I don't recall if Martin or Baltimore was the primary when this tape was made (Martin may have been unavailable causing it to fail over to Baltimore)

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Everything Else TWC / Re: Which star 4000 has the most degradation?

« on: November 03, 2009, 09:55:27 PM »

I misread what you stated, but it's not really dirt, but rather just bit-rot that just builds up in the unit from continual use and age.

If I had to make a guess, the first thing I'd check for are bulging/leaking capacitors.  Sometimes the electrolyte inside a capacitor goes bad and tries to push its way upward and eventually starts leaking through the top. 

At work, I replaced two video cards not too long ago in some high end Dell's whose capacitors did exactly that.

Just a theory anyway as I've never had the opportunity to see a Star 4000 up close.