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Local Forecast / Re: IntelliStar Changes
« on: July 27, 2011, 09:21:12 AM »There are also weather-triggered statements that can appear in the 7 day. Here are examples on the SD and HD STARs:
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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Bug: "Unread post" doesn't work
« on: July 27, 2011, 09:18:39 AM »
For the first time since I've been on this forum, the "Show unread posts since last visit" link doesn't work. It worked fine yesterday evening, but not this morning.
When I click on it, it says there are no unread messages, even though I can clearly see several unread messages in the forum itself. I had to manually go through each folder marked with a blue icon to find the unread messages this morning.
When I click on it, it says there are no unread messages, even though I can clearly see several unread messages in the forum itself. I had to manually go through each folder marked with a blue icon to find the unread messages this morning.
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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion
« on: July 26, 2011, 07:04:31 PM »
It looks like that Intellistar was having some problems - lots of missing data, for example, which is why it showed the non-traditional 3-day forecast.
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Local Forecast / Re: Daypart
« on: July 26, 2011, 03:32:57 PM »A better way to do this IMO would be to either take the local info off the LDL during the 7 day and display the text there, or take the LDL away altogether and display the text more central to the bottom of the 7 day and the bottom of the screen. That would make it less cluttered.
I think it would be disadvantageous to remove the LDL just for the sake of an ad for weather.com.
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Local Forecast / Re: Daypart
« on: July 25, 2011, 10:34:50 PM »Stay tuned tomorrow for another change or two.
More changes to the flavor lineup... or to the website?
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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Best weather radar
« on: July 25, 2011, 10:34:05 PM »But WBRC in Birmingham had it's own Doppler.... while the WSR-57@ Centreville was still in operations.
It's not at all uncommon for TV stations to operate their own weather radars, even if there's a National Weather Service radar in the same area.
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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Is cable TV going downhill?
« on: July 25, 2011, 07:51:17 PM »I am old enough to remember when Nickelodeon had Weinerville, Figure It Out, AAH! Real Monsters, Gullah Gullah Island, Little Bear, Pete and Pete, Are You Afraid of the Dark. Who can forget Stick Stickly?
I'm old enough to remember when "Pinwheel" was the only show on Nickelodeon for hours on end. And when it wasn't "Pinwheel," chances are it was "Sharon, Lois, and Bram's Elephant Show." Skiddle-a-dink-a-rinky-dink, skiddle-a-rinky-do...
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Everything Else Classic TWC / Re: Best weather radar
« on: July 25, 2011, 07:34:53 PM »What kind of radar in this video?
3 - Blizzard of 1993 Birmingham, AL - James Spann & Kevin Collins
Since it's from 1993, my guess would be 57s and 74s. I remember when the 88s were shown with great fanfare, highlighting the benefits of doppler radar, and so on, and, at first, 88 radars were shown in isolation, with reflections from just the one site.
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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: IntelliStar 'Goodies Pack'
« on: July 25, 2011, 07:32:34 PM »But is there any way I could get my hands on it?
If TWC complained, then my guess would be no. This site exists pretty much thanks to the generosity of TWC, considering the large amount of copyrighted material that's featured here, and the Star team also very generously participates when they can. Antagonizing TWC would be the very last thing anyone would want to do here.
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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch
« on: July 25, 2011, 07:31:14 PM »Comcast and Verizon could probably care less about the IntelliStar 2.
Then having channel 847 here in Massachusetts is pretty much a FAIL
Yes and no. It is a high definition channel that Comcast can sell to its customers, and they get to add one more channel to their list of HD channels. They don't obligate themselves to buy an expensive piece of equipment to add a blue bar and two minutes of "local inserts" every 10 minutes to go along with the HD channel.
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Local Forecast / Re: Daypart
« on: July 25, 2011, 06:06:22 PM »I saw the daypart forecast today at 2:38 PM ET on 27100, during the time the radars were out.. is this part of the change?
My guess is that the daypart was used to fill time, since the Star doesn't show the radar when it's not available for long.
Also, anyone with Marine/Tides on their STARs, is the daypart forecast back on those? 24629 never got it since the December 2010 product playlist update due to the marine/tides screens taking priority.
As I said earlier, this is the first I've seen the daypart in a long time, and this counts two coastal Stars: Boston and Daytona Beach.
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Local Forecast / Re: Daypart
« on: July 25, 2011, 05:40:24 PM »Also, FRI, the school day and outdoor screens are officially dead. The getaway has lost some priority as well and won't show nearly as often.
Thank goodness!
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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch
« on: July 25, 2011, 03:31:05 PM »that's sad, for companies like comcast and verizon to boast they both have the best fiber-optic networks that they can't even have the IS2 before others like Cox, Time Warner, Smaller Cable Co'sComcast and Verizon could probably care less about the IntelliStar 2.
i just hope one of the issues isn't bandwidth.
There's a lot of stuff they could care less about. Customer satisfaction, for example.
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Local Forecast / Re: Daypart
« on: July 25, 2011, 03:30:13 PM »The daypart seems to have returned to regular usage at :58. As well, the regional maps were replaced with the metro maps. I like these changes.
Is that for all Intellistars? I can't even remember the last time I saw the Daypart in Boston.
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Local Forecast / Re: Daypart
« on: July 25, 2011, 03:29:51 PM »My radar is currently frozen, but not unavailable...
I heard Vivan Brown explain within the past half-hour or so that they're having problems with the radars. Even the radar map she was using in the studio didn't look so good - it had empty frames and what there was didn't have a long loop. It's just now starting to update again - on the local forecast, the satellite/radar screen has one frame, and the local radar has a couple already.