 DaveDudeNo Fear
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[Content] hd weather channel local on the 8sWell this morning i woke up to the new HD lo8s, its okay. However for some reason Comcast thinks wayne nj, is close enough to Princeton to share the same weather star. Why not just have one weather star for all of Comcast ? |
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 camperjust visiting this planet
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camper
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2014-Apr-29 10:31 am
I've all but given up with weather from Comcast. They seem to think that so long as *some* form of weather information is provided, that info is appropriate.
The weather scan channel here shows info for a city (New Haven, CT) that is in a different climate zone from the local Comcast franchise. |
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 SeattleMattStreaming Tech Director
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More than likely from what i've read, this probably isn't Comcast's fault.
I've heard the HD Intellistar's are even more regional than before. |
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camperjust visiting this planet
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camper
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2014-Apr-29 12:41 pm
said by SeattleMatt:I've heard the HD Intellistar's are even more regional than before. That doesn't surprise me. The weather channel has been moving away from providing localized weather and towards providing only regional, or super-hyped foul weather programming. And reality shows, can't forget those timeslot-filling vacuous reality shows. |
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said by camper:And reality shows, can't forget those timeslot-filling vacuous reality shows. Actually, TWC is (supposedly) going back to more (actual) weather prog, in lieu of reality shows - thanks in part to DirecTV: » Weather Channel Returns to DirecTV, Forced to Refocus on WeatherThey must be; last night after midnight here, they were (still) doing LIVE weather reporting on all the storms that were happening yesterday...  |
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camperjust visiting this planet
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camper
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2014-Apr-29 2:26 pm
said by dishrich:TWC is (supposedly) going back to more (actual) weather prog, in lieu of reality shows They decreased the amount of reality programming, but did not eliminate it. |
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Neither myself nor them said it WOULD be eliminated - nobody is THAT crazy to think that would actually happen!  |
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camperjust visiting this planet
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camper
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2014-Apr-29 7:45 pm
One can hope. |
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said by DaveDude:Well this morning i woke up to the new HD lo8s, its okay. However for some reason Comcast thinks wayne nj, is close enough to Princeton to share the same weather star. Just checked and the Local-on-the-8s is on the HD feed here in Monmouth County now also. The weather info is shown as from Matawan, the same as it was for the SD version. |
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 Dan A
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Dan A
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2014-Apr-29 11:00 pm
Just checked cable via slingbox. On Comcast of Central New Jersey TWC HD now has local weather for East Brunswick and Trenton no more Heightstown. they also have Weather for "Windsor" but not specifying "East" or "West". "Windsor" in Robbinsville is in Cablevision Territory |
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when is this coming to the keystone or keystone west region. Still get national feed in hd here. Have to keep it on SD feed to get local on the 8s. |
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DaveDudeNo Fear
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its really stupid having a 40 mile distance between some of these locations. Remember regional weather ? in the 90s when the weather channel was useful. Im in Princeton, and my weather star says Milford, and Wayne. NJ12 is becoming more and more relevant. |
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I wonder if Comcast is doing the HD overlay stuff at a central site, then feeding that to local areas. That may be why the HD version seems to be covering larger areas than the SD, and why it may also be more reliable (SD version here has frozen.) |
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