So I Was Flipping Through...

the election coverage tonight. Just sort of seeing what's going on (I'm going to switch over to Boston Legal here in a second.) I started in the high 760s because I thought we had CNN in HD and I wanted to check out CNN's Holographic displays. Alas, we don't get CNN in HD, so I figured I would flip up through the other HD news channels to see who had the nicest stat presentation. Dan Rather on HDNet (762) seems to be relaxed and pleasant to listen to. FOX (745) doesn't have all HD interview feeds, nor all HD commercials. ABC (722) seems to be worse than FOX as their local coverage doesn't have an HD feed, and it's all in 4:3 format. CBS (707) seems to have mostly HD coverage with SD commercials.

The shocker came when I was flipping through the program guide and came across a new channel. 702 is apparently now the local WDTN HD station. That's right, the local Dayton NBC affiliate now has an HD Channel. Regular readers may remember posts such as Holy Frak, It Seems To Have, What to do when TW bites? , Well It's Slightly..., and Looks like I'll have to turn to.... where I complain about every major broadcaster having an HD feed except NBC. I'll now get Chuck, Heroes, My Name Is Earl, The Office, ER (till the end of this season. Mark Greene is coming back? WHAT?!??!), SNL (meh), Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Late Night With Conan O'Brien, and Last Call With Carson Daly all in HD.

It's about freaking time.

In addition, according to the Wikipedia SuperBowl XLIII will air on NBC, and there may be some LRC and other random gambling games played again. Now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed I get Sci-Fi for BSG and the CW for Supernatural and I'll be in HD pixel heaven.