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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 09:51:08 PM »

I hope they improve this feature nevertheless. I see many flaws. I like it that such an application was developed though. If I change the channel right after the local kicks in, it shows the satellite lf instead.

I tried the same thing but it came on.

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 08:22:04 PM »

K

One other quick point... Those DTV boxes would NOT have the power to render any transitions let alone a full 720 res. video for a transition... Im sure the boxes are already choking to pull this off as it is..

Yeah.. I would guess that they are on their last limb doing this whole thing as is.

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 08:14:31 PM »

The LDL remains off during LF's because of appearance. It wouldn't look right jumping from the local boxes to the national feed with the LDL suddenly on screen.

About Dish's LDL... IIRC both DirecTV and Dish are controlled via the same config file (seprate systems, but similar configuration) so when TWC removed the LDL from showing during the LF's for DirecTV, it problaly got applied to Dish's LDL as well.

I think Dish's still works.
(also Kyle, if you stop by the IRC again, just highlight me because i'm there )

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 05:26:16 PM »

Also for the people wanting some sort of transition, I really think it's not possible. The SD boxes are very low powered boxes and probably can only handle whats being thrown at it right now. But, now that I think about it... they could maybe make the transitions a "video" type thing, but I don't know. A transition made by the box I think its pretty impossible due to the underpowerful boxes, maybe the HD ones, but not SD.

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 04:54:29 PM »

I think they did disable the LDL during the forecast because of the new feature. And I think the LF ends early because they want you to see the animated radars.

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 01:32:56 PM »

Congratulations, TWC, for executing something BRILLIANTLY.

Congratulations, DirecTv, for agreeing to this.

Yep! I actually really like it. One thing I would like changed though, is that they maybe put the name of the city for your zip code because "For ZIP 98001" looks kinda weird. But other than that, I really like it. Finally DirecTV has a "Local on the 8s".

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 01:17:08 PM »

Well, I was TOTALLY wrong of the features on the new Local On the 8s... For one, it activates on its own, and well, it works!

Heres a video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CyDaonlT1Y

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 03:30:38 AM »

Yeah.. and I just did nothing on the LF that just aired... so.. I don't know.

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 03:23:23 AM »

well, go get your local weather now, dammit.

It doesn't look like anything out of the ordinary, and frankly if this is all they did, I'll be pretty upset.

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 25, 2008, 03:15:26 AM »

Well that was quick.. its 12:13 and I see this:

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: September 25, 2008, 03:10:27 AM »

Yup.. and our LDL on DTV is still not working!

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Local Forecast / Re: Trammell Sightings

« on: September 25, 2008, 03:01:30 AM »

Black screen for 2~ Mins and then Trammell.

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Contributions / Re: You wanted an HD LF with the 2005 Storm Alert theme...

« on: September 24, 2008, 05:44:48 PM »

Wow, it does sound a lot different in stereo.

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 24, 2008, 02:13:43 AM »

Wow all that excitement for nothing.

Not really. It's still something that we've never had on DTV, and I like the way it looks

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Local Forecast / Re: Thursday, September 25th DirecTV “local on the eights” will start

« on: September 23, 2008, 06:31:53 PM »

Would it ever be possible to show local forecasts using the same way satellite companies present local channels?

Well, of course it could. Would they want to do this? No. That's a lot of precious space that could be taken up by other channels. Could they do something on a regional basis? Absolutely. I don't know if they would want to, though. That would be a great decision to make it a bit more local, but It will probably never, ever, happen.