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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Finally!

« on: June 08, 2010, 11:58:03 PM »

No Weatherscan on Comcast? That's really surprising. The majority of Comcast headends east of the Mississippi carry Weatherscan. Maybe there's just no need for it in your market.

It can always be argued that there's a "need."   My guess is that Comcast just doesn't want to shell out the money for a Star at that headend, use bandwidth space for Weatherscan, etc.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: June 08, 2010, 11:56:20 PM »

In case any one is wondering what an IntelliStar looks like with absolutely no data, today's your lucky day.

It would be nice if an Intellistar could simply not cue for a local forecast and show the national broadcast instead if it has absolutely no information to show.

At least an Intellistar still looks "pretty" with no data.  I remember the days when the WeatherStar 4000 or, even worse, the WeatherStar III had no data.  Nothing's worse than looking at three minutes (remember when local forecasts used to take longer than the blink of an eye?) of a blue screen saying "No report" and such.

Well, at least your Intellistar wasn't 100% without information... it did have a radar/satellite frame to show in the LDL.

Random memory, speaking of the WeatherStar III.  We were under a tornado watch, so the brown screen appeared with the scrolling warning.  In the middle of its second repeat, a tornado warning was issued, but instead of the red screen completely replacing the brown screen, the red began right at the first line of the warning, scrolling up along with the text and replacing the brown.  When the warning had finished after a couple of repeats, the red ended at the last line, scrolled up, and we saw the brown again appearing from underneath the red, and that stayed on for one more repeat of the watch before returning to the national broadcast.  This would have been in the summer of 1991 or 1992 at the absolute latest, and was the only time I ever saw such an "effect" on the WeatherStar III.  Never saw it on the WeatherStar 4000 when it also scrolled the red warnings before putting them on the LDL line.

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: June 08, 2010, 11:47:47 PM »

That must be very rare... all of my videos that have unavailable data still have almanac information in it (but with moons instead of temperatures).

Right - that's the way it should be.  Temperature data requires a data feed from TWC, while moon data is calculated directly on the Intellistar itself.  Actually, all of the Stars calculate this data on their own, along with sunrise and sunset information, which is why the Almanac page should never expire or be "unavailable."  So that's why this photo really surprised me.

I mentioned a while back about the XL that my area had, and how it seldom worked properly.  There were many times (especially in the morning) when data kept expiring without getting updated, so there were a lot of "temporarily unavailable" screens, but the Almanac page, if nothing else, always behaved properly.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Finally!

« on: June 08, 2010, 11:44:59 PM »

Wow! Congrats I wish this were the case for me, too... but knowing Crapcast in my area, they most likely wont

You have neither Weatherscan nor TWC HD?  My sympathies.  Have you tried contacting Comcast to see if they'll add the stations?

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Local Forecast / Re: General LF Discussion

« on: June 08, 2010, 09:06:38 PM »

Wow - I've never seen an Almanac page without data!  That information is supposed to be generated from within the Intellistar unit itself, based on geographic location, so it's "technically" not supposed to ever expire, since it can be created even without a data feed from TWC.

Guess this picture proved my theory wrong!

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New HD LDL?

« on: June 08, 2010, 08:04:54 PM »

Does something look wrong to you?

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Finally!

« on: June 08, 2010, 07:03:36 PM »

Hope you aren't in a rush for the HD Intellistar haha. Congrats on getting HD ready

Even I can be patient if I put my mind to it.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Finally!

« on: June 08, 2010, 07:03:09 PM »

now you get to see the new LDL that twc has on HD

It'll be nice to be able to see things for myself without relying on people posting thumbnails here.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: New HD LDL?

« on: June 08, 2010, 06:16:28 PM »

Just as the SD channel has nationally-broadcast LDLs and the HD feed has nationally-broadcast LDLs and sidebars, I'm sure there will be something similar to this for viewers without an Intellistar on the HD channel once the HD Intellistar starts to be used.

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Local Forecast / Re: Local

« on: June 08, 2010, 06:15:14 PM »

For the record, I still haven't noticed any outages in my area.  If there have been any, they must have been brief, only during the times I wasn't watching TWC.

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TWC and your Cable Company / Finally!

« on: June 08, 2010, 06:14:16 PM »

Welcome to the 21st century, Eric!

My 16-year-old TV went on the fritz yesterday, so I got an HDTV set today, and I'll be getting an HD cable box tomorrow, meaning I'll finally be able to watch TWC in HD.  More importantly, I'll be able to watch along with everyone else when the HD Intellistar makes its debut. 

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Is TWC Having Issues??? According to DirecTV, thay are.......

« on: June 07, 2010, 06:41:33 PM »

You don't need to make a topic every time TWC has an issue. There are plenty of other topic here for small outages

So if an OCM coughs a little while standing in front of the map, you don't want me to mention it? 

I think you misunderstood his post. Stuff like an OCM coughing can be put in the Blooper Thread or the General TWC Discussion thread.

Joke go fail. 

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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Is TWC Having Issues??? According to DirecTV, thay are.......

« on: June 07, 2010, 05:47:33 PM »

You don't need to make a topic every time TWC has an issue. There are plenty of other topic here for small outages

So if an OCM coughs a little while standing in front of the map, you don't want me to mention it? 

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Local Forecast / Re: Satellite LF Sightings

« on: June 07, 2010, 05:46:38 PM »

Strange... I haven't noticed any problems with my area's Intellistar today.  I just checked the local forecast right now, and everything's as it should be.

Some are back up now. Did you notice anything between noon and 3?

I didn't.  Granted, I didn't watch for those three hours straight, but if I'm going to "randomly" turn on The Weather Channel, it's going to be as close to the local forecasts as I can get.

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Local Forecast / Re: Satellite LF Sightings

« on: June 07, 2010, 05:00:04 PM »

Strange... I haven't noticed any problems with my area's Intellistar today.  I just checked the local forecast right now, and everything's as it should be.