That’s right. KGMB, Hawaii’s CBS affiliate hates it’s Hawaii viewers who own HDTVs.
Sure, you can watch CBS Sports NFL games in HDTV, but when it comes to prime-time programming this is what you’ll get if you’re hoping for HD:
Those evil horizontal black bars of STANDARD DEFINITION.
Now I held back from complaining since not even Jennifer [...]
So what does a $200 digital TV tuner and an “affordable” highly reviewed, properly aligned $40 indoor HDTV antenna get you as of tonight?
KHON-DT (Fox) - No Signal for long stretches, then a muddy 1280×720.
KHON-SD (CW) - No Signal, or choppy image (shown as 480×480 for some strange reason).
KITV-DT (ABC) - Hot and heavy, 1280×720, [...]
Tags: HDTV·KGMB·KHNL·KHON·KIKU·KITV
So how should ABC sell HDTV?
Easy. Bumper every commercial break with images of Anna Kournikova in HD.
And not only for NBA games, we’re talking Lost, Desperate House wives, the local news.
Everything.
Watching the Dallas Mavericks Jason Terry being interviewed before tonight’s NBA Final game I couldn’t help but think of this scene from The Simpsons episode Lisa The Greek:
Homer and Lisa watch a pre-game show.
Football player [being interviewed]: This team is fired up. We came here to play!
Homer: Aw right! [picks up the phone to place [...]
