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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: February 01, 2011, 06:16:50 PM »

we'll have some fun from people visiting us and thinking it's Celsius.

Anything warmer than 40°F would be unbearable in Celsius, if not impossible to live in.

Im sorry, but i dont understand what you mean.. if you mean 40° centigrade instead of 40° farenheit i can understand.. if its unbearable at 40°F then how do i survive? the average monthly temp for all 12 months down here will always be above 40°F

If people see only "40°" written on the screen and aren't sure what the temperature scale is... they should.  My point is that 40°C is quite hot (104°F), and so any higher number would indicate a major heat wave.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Sporadic Outages

« on: February 01, 2011, 06:15:16 PM »

I haven't seen any of these outages on my end, but have you all seen any lately?

I haven't encountered any.

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Winter Weather / Re: January 31st-February 2nd Superstorm

« on: February 01, 2011, 05:09:59 PM »

Storm is cranking

Wow... the 4000 radar looks so old-fashioned today, although I remember thinking 20 years ago how great it was! 

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: February 01, 2011, 05:08:50 PM »

we'll have some fun from people visiting us and thinking it's Celsius.

I don't think so, considering there's only a rather narrow range of temperatures that would allow for that kind of confusion, and even then, only on a day without precipitation!  Anything warmer than 40°F would be unbearable in Celsius, if not impossible to live in.

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Questions, Comments, Suggestions / Re: Sporadic Outages

« on: February 01, 2011, 10:04:48 AM »

Maybe I misread, but did you say that if we can't get into the forum, then we're supposed to inform you in the forum that we can't get into the forum? 

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: IntelliStar 2 Beta Launch

« on: February 01, 2011, 10:03:34 AM »

It's interesting how the IS2 has holiday names in the LF. So far, I've seen Christmas, New Year's, and MLK Day.

I saw that as early as the WeatherStar III.  It depends on how the forecast is written, not from any "holiday sensor" programmed into the Star.

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Local Forecast / Re: IS2 compatibility issues

« on: February 01, 2011, 10:02:56 AM »

So, in other words, Comcast shaves so much bandwidth off that the IS2 isn't able to work with so little remaining bandwidth.

Comcast obviously isn't going to stop reducing bandwidth, so either the IS2 will need a workaround, like you mentioned, or Comcast just won't be able to use it at its headends, and Comcast's HD viewers had better get used to just the national local forecast.

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TWC Fan Art / Re: Beta images of IS1

« on: January 31, 2011, 07:55:29 PM »

GIMP terrifies me.  Beautiful background.  What's the obsession with the ID? 

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OCMs / Re: Paul Kocin

« on: January 31, 2011, 06:11:48 PM »

What is it with this forum harping on less-than-ideal voices?! 

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Weather Center cut back, will appear on weekends; New LOT8s squeezeback

« on: January 31, 2011, 04:41:58 PM »

It was a nice network we had once...

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Winter Weather / Re: January 31st-February 2nd Severe Weather Event

« on: January 30, 2011, 08:29:00 PM »

The Boston area is expected to get another 15-20 inches of snow.  Really, we don't have enough space for all the snow we already have!  Enough is enough already!! 

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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: Intellistar 2 LDL

« on: January 29, 2011, 11:51:09 PM »

It isn't? Crap. I guess it is the Beta STAR in New York.

The pictures you showed are of the national HD feed without any local Star at all.  The LDL and the local forecast are generated at TWC in Atlanta and broadcast throughout the entire country, the same way programming and commercials are.  A Star will broadcast OVER the local forecast portion to air a locally-produced local forecast, and an Intellistar will broadcast its own LDL OVER the national LDL.

What you showed has no involvement of any Star at all.

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Local Forecast / Re: Advantages/disadvantages of the Stars

« on: January 29, 2011, 09:54:34 PM »

I have never seen a real 4000 or III. You should be happy you saw them. I don't live near one. You should be glad, or Elmo will push you into a toilet. 

Rarely in my 28 years have I seemed like the "old salt" of a group, but here, that's just how I feel!  What many members here call "classic TWC," I consider to be relatively new.

When I started watching TWC in the late 1980s, I was fascinated by so many things at once - the technology, the weather, the presentation...  Those were the days when The Weather Channel actually did what it promised - it presented actual weather forecasts, pretty much 24/7.  Special programming was rare, but, because it was so rare, there was actually time to make it worthwhile.  I remember "Force Four," hosted by Marshall Seese, was outstanding - just outstanding!  (It was a documentary about the effects of Hurricane Hugo on South Carolina.  I wish I still had that tape!!)

Throughout the 1990s, TWC remained as strong as ever, but by the early 2000s, some steam had started to run out of the channel, since they started making some big changes to "reinvent" themselves.  And in the past few years... everything's changed.

Sadly, today's TWC is not the TWC that existed a couple of decades ago.  They're very, very different entities.

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Everything Else TWC / Re: What would you do to improve TWC?

« on: January 29, 2011, 02:45:22 PM »

Bring back the ETFs!! 

Extended Travel Outlook 2

I think this is covered quite adequately by the national LDLs.  SD viewers without an IntelliStar see them, and HD viewers without an IS2 see them, too.

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Local Forecast / Re: Advantages/disadvantages of the Stars

« on: January 28, 2011, 12:32:40 PM »

The IS is more prone to hardware failure and outages, the XL abd 4000 and jr don't

I think it's natural that something more complex is more likely to experience a problem, since there's more that can go wrong.  Should progress (here, meaning the addition of new features) be sacrificed for the sake of reliability?