Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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This is odd...yesterday afternoon I was watching the 2nd half of the Villanova-Connecticut game. With about 10 mintues left, the announcers dropped out. All the other sounds still worked, just their voices were gone. I have Comcast, and if I changed the channel to the SD channel, then their voices were there, but not on the HD channel.
It was a nice experience. On one level the announcing is kind of part of the game, on another level it can get kind of annoying, espeically since they are wrong a lot of times on people's names, who fouled who, etc.