I poked around at AVS some this morning, curious to find out what was going on. It sounds somewhat cheesy to me. The best explanation I could find was that (for whatever reason) they can't track ratings for HD broadcasts like they can for SD, so they are delaying the HD broadcasts by a day so they don't steal away viewers and cut into the SD ratings. Blech - we get an opportunity for some pretty HD demo material, but it's not really useful as a way to watch the games. I've got a co-worker who recently bought an HDTV and was a bit disappointed that Time Warner hadn't added the local NBC affiliate to the line-up, which means he can't watch any of the HD Olympics broadcasts. I told him it wasn't much of a loss - they'll let you watch events at a half-dozen or so venues, but only a day after you've already seen them on SD and read about the results in the morning paper. I guess we can watch the HD broadcast tonight and wonder if the US women's gymnastics team qualified and if the men's swimming team won the 400m relay. Plus our local affiliate seems to still only be able to broadcast in Dolby 2.0, so the 5.1 audio is being downconverted to 2.0. I'm sure I'll watch an event here and there on HD, but it ends up being just to see what quality they are getting on the HD video.

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