Additionally, a "trigger" feature is currently in development. Set to launch in the next few months, this trigger technology will allow satellite viewers to see their local weather during the network's "Local on the 8s" every 10 minutes. Select weather alerts will be displayed during "Local on the 8s" when in effect for the area.
I am telling you the trigger is going to be a "select" in the bottom corner of the screen which will bring you to your local weather which we are seeing now on dish interactive. This will happen every ten minutes on the "8's" so you can call it local on the eights or you can call it what we have now with a trigger, your choice![]()
This is the same trigger that they use during Starz Super Pack commercials et all.
I have not read anything, anywhere that would even hint at the fact that we would be getting anything like the cable version of the weather. Why would they waste their time creating the version we have now if there was actually another secret version that you could only see every ten minutes hiding in the wings?
I think we have all been had. Get your hopes down right now just so you don't have to risk getting them smashed over the coming months......
After all these years with the original interactive weather that we had, I don't understand all the people that are still complaining.. This new system is a vast improvement over the old system. The weather on the 8's feature on cable is not anything that I ever really cared about anyway. I want to know what the weather is now.. Not have to wait 10 minutes for it.. If you are really waiting on this to be just like cable, then my suggestion is to get cable.. This is satellite. Do you want your picture quality to be just like cable too?? I don't see why there are so many unhappy people here.. I love my Dish. And I wouldn't have cable no matter what fancy features they think they can provide. It would still be the same crappy cable.
live LOCAL radar is what most people want including me!!!
Then go here, http://www.noaa.gov/ and put in your zip code. You'll get all the info you want any time of the day.
Some people want to be able to access this from the television without having to go to their computer to get it.
Does everyone have this feature now except for us with 311s? I see that a new software version for the 311s was released on Tuesday. Maybe this is the software we need to get it on our 311s.