It will be a welcomed change to have more of the commercials in HD as well. Not because I care to see a chip at 1080i, but it will mean less havoc for my TV and stereo system. I'm tired of the changes the screen goes through with the bars on the side as it switches. I'm tired of the stereo auto-switching from Dolby Digital to standard Dolby, etc.

That's all well and good, but our local ABC affiliate in Anchorage doesn't transmit in HD, therefore it is not available in HD here, via our cable company. I'm severly disappointed. I'm looking forward to the day it's mandatory for the networks to broadcast in HD. Until then....I may have to sign up for satellite TV. :-)

Who cares?

I want to see a chip in high def. And, like Geoff above, I am thoroughly disappointed that the local ABC affiliate in Anchorage AK isn't going to show the SB in high def.

Until then....I may have to sign up for satellite TV. :-)

Satellite is no better, I can't get locals in HD. Direct TV doesn't have the bandwidth to broadcast locals for everyone in HD. It will be months before more HD is availible (mpeg4). I will be watching the super bowl in SD and it will look like dung.

The picture, of course, was flawless. The HD cameras certainly did their jobs. What they didn't seem to worry about was the HD AUDIO. Did the Dolby Digital sound like crap for anyone else? No matter what setting on my receiver, I couldn't hear the Bettis mic OR the ref mic's, and the commercials were all broadcast at different volumes. Audio wise, an extremely poor effort by ABC.

I thought I understood this until the last line - what has football got to do with the SuperBowl? I thought you played GridIron in the US? On a similar note, why should anyone care about High-Def? By the time that there are any broadcasts available we will all be watching VOD on our PC's, where resolutions already make a mockery of HighDef.

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