So this will probably never happen.
How the Weather Channel broadcasts for cable is, they send the cable company the national Local On The 8s video (like the Dish Network people see) but the cable company only uses that feed in emergencies (in the case of a system crash). Normally, they use a device called an IntelliStar, which is essentially a rack-mounted PC running a custom version of BSD and software that takes real-time weather data (either from a direct satellite feed or encoded in the magical land known as the blanking interval), renders the Local On The 8s video, and patches it in. That video is then broadcast instead of the National On The 8s video whenever possible.
Yes, the actual Local On The 8s video (local as in cable) is rendered at your cable company's headquarters, not at TWC. That's how they get it so local: everyone using the same IntelliStar lives in the same city. That's also why, if you have identical TVs connected to two different cable companies, the Lot8 video will be different.
My idea? Install this same software (or a basic version thereof) on every receiver. Every 10 minutes, it switches from the main TWC video feed to a custom video rendered by the software using real-time local weather data from, say, the Internet.
The practical upshot for the user is that it'll be the same as cable. No need to fumble through DishHome.
Barring that, have the "Press Select For Interactive Weather" appear on the HD version of the channel (not just the SD version, what were they thinking) and be NOT SLOW.
Barring that, have the SD Weather Channel redirect to TWC Interactive automatically, no need to go to DishHome.
How the Weather Channel broadcasts for cable is, they send the cable company the national Local On The 8s video (like the Dish Network people see) but the cable company only uses that feed in emergencies (in the case of a system crash). Normally, they use a device called an IntelliStar, which is essentially a rack-mounted PC running a custom version of BSD and software that takes real-time weather data (either from a direct satellite feed or encoded in the magical land known as the blanking interval), renders the Local On The 8s video, and patches it in. That video is then broadcast instead of the National On The 8s video whenever possible.
Yes, the actual Local On The 8s video (local as in cable) is rendered at your cable company's headquarters, not at TWC. That's how they get it so local: everyone using the same IntelliStar lives in the same city. That's also why, if you have identical TVs connected to two different cable companies, the Lot8 video will be different.
My idea? Install this same software (or a basic version thereof) on every receiver. Every 10 minutes, it switches from the main TWC video feed to a custom video rendered by the software using real-time local weather data from, say, the Internet.
The practical upshot for the user is that it'll be the same as cable. No need to fumble through DishHome.
Barring that, have the "Press Select For Interactive Weather" appear on the HD version of the channel (not just the SD version, what were they thinking) and be NOT SLOW.
Barring that, have the SD Weather Channel redirect to TWC Interactive automatically, no need to go to DishHome.
