Weather Warnings

[SRW1000]

OK, so it's Spring now, and again we are faced with the loss of valuable screen real estate with glorious storm watch and warning messages.

So, given that situation is unavoidable, I thought it might be interesting to see how forum members would like to see them handled.

I have not included the option of showing some reasonable restraint, since this doesn't appear to be a realistic alternative, and it would be the overwhelming winner.

Scott

[Milwaukee12]

They should all take after 36-1 with a small bug in the corner.

[GBK]

take a look at fox 6 they got it right tonight.  Show their weather crawl during commercials and do nothing to upset the program unless absolutelly necessary.  Add that to the list of options for voting

[SRW1000]

take a look at fox 6 they got it right tonight.  Show their weather crawl during commercials and do nothing to upset the program unless absolutelly necessary.  Add that to the list of options for voting

That would be the reasonable restraint that I mentioned.  That would be too easy of a choice for the poll, but thumbs up to Fox 6 for practicing that tonight.

I thought it was odd that 58 decided to go into obnoxious stretchy mode, but their sister station WMLW didn't have any permanent warnings (occasional crawls only).  Kinda counteracts that whole "public interest" theory.

Scott

[jjallou]

Fox 6 gets my vote tonight, good job. Weather crawls during commercials!
Too bad the torrential downpour at their studios messed up a portion of Idol. I missed the Ford video. Guess I'll see if it's online.  

[Mikey]

I can't bring myself to vote for any of the proposed options...:bang:

The stupidity of the decision maker who chooses to, on high def broadcasts, cut down the picture by nearly 40%, just to tell me it is raining outside and a possible storm is coming just baffles me.

A crawl during commercials or a 30 second icon coming back from commercial break would be more than enough.

My wife, who is from Florida, just laughs at all the warnings we have anytime there is  the slightest chance at a "storm".  She said if they did it as frequently down there, there would be "warnings" all the time.  

Do they really need to keep a storm warning on the TV screen?  I mean, once it starts raining and thundering, isn't the fact conceded?

I don't see them telling me it is snowing outside when we have a "blizzard"...

They must be trying to keep those who have no windows/doors/legs/eyes/ears  fully informed on the "dangerous" weather...:rolleyes:

[Doug Mohr]

Its not like the local stations are on the verge of bankruptcy. Get your HD gear in place so you don't have to shrink the screen down. :bang:

But the thing that really annoys me is when they shrink a program and leave their local news ads unaffected. If you are so "Latebreaking" how about having a live 15 second weather update instead of your canned ad for the news?

:Shoot:

Have you ever turned to Weather Plus to actually see what is happening and seen a canned, prerecorded loop? What's the point of wasting bandwith with this stupid channel if you aren't even going to use it during a "Weather Emergency"

Thank you WISN for not interrupting Lost to tell me it is raining.
Shame on you WTMJ for shrinking Crossing Jordan to tell me it is raining.
Shame on you WDJT for shrinking Criminal Minds to tell me it is raining.

[viva-vegas]

They should all take after 36-1 with a small bug in the corner.

I was hoping someone would mention that! {storm}

Good Stuff!

Craig

[LoadStar]

Whatever they do, as long as it leaves the image as 16:9 and reasonably close to HD quality, I'd be OK. I'd prefer just a simple map superimposed over the HD image if they have to do anything.

If they absolutely must put up their stupid banner and crap, at least take advantage of the full 16:9 screen. Since typically programming is still framed for 4:3 anyway - if they really have to put their ad on screen, superimpose a column graphic over the non-4:3 safe area, on either the left or right side. That way, we still have the full resolution, at full size, and most of the picture. (Obviously, this is the worst case situation - I'd rather just a simple, small map in the lower corner - no banner or column graphics.)

Do NOT do what they are probably going to do again this year - drop down to 4:3, then squish the image more. UGH.

[LuckySe7ens]

They majorly screwed up when they did the digital specifications, IMHO (of course, yes, this was well over a decade ago)...

The way it should work is that there are layers, picture layer, info layer...  you can click exit on your remote... poof, the info layer disappears.

[oz]

They majorly screwed up when they did the digital specifications, IMHO (of course, yes, this was well over a decade ago)...

The way it should work is that there are layers, picture layer, info layer...  you can click exit on your remote... poof, the info layer disappears.

That would be the best way to do it. Too bad they don't have TWC push out the weather warnings like they do for Amber Alerts.  You can exit out of those.