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Depending on the station depends on what happens after that. Sometimes you get right through and sometimes you get stuck in IVR hell. If you get to an engineer they usually explain the problem and fix it if they can. If not I call back and explain to the person at the news desk and sometimes they relay the message and fix it and sometimes they say stupid things like; Yes it is!

This is one of the worst thing about DVRs because usuallly by the time you realize it, it is too late to call. ]]>Mar 23rd 2006 4:12PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/Mar 23rd 2006 4:29PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/Mar 23rd 2006 4:34PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/Mar 23rd 2006 5:01PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/
Least NBC was showing HD for a bit the local CBS station showed SD all night so they could have there weather info box up. (there was no sever weather unless you count the inch of snow after midnight)]]>Mar 23rd 2006 6:37PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/Mar 23rd 2006 6:57PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/
Best guess is that the satellite feed starts cracking up, and they switch to SD because it's lower bandwidth and more immune to interference.]]>Mar 23rd 2006 8:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/
You would be surprised, many affiliates have automated systems but alot of them are still manual. At the very least their is someone monitoring it and verifying that all the commercials are being played.

The other thing is that many affiliates can only splice SD so they have to switch to SD to splice the commercials. You can notice this when they splice in the local commercials at the end of the break and the images changes. For example our NBC affiliates stretches their SD, so the national commercials are 4x3 and the local commercials are spliced in. Sometimes they screw up and don't switch back to HD. ]]>Mar 23rd 2006 9:42PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/
Tip: while a lot of stations don't answer their main phone line during prime time (not business hours), there's generally a News Tip line that's answered 24/7 ;)]]>Mar 23rd 2006 9:49PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/
I'd look at the wife and hold my hand like a fake phone and say "Hi, can someone please flip the HD switch, please."

I'm glad you all cleared this up for me. It might be the network, the affiliate or the cable provider. ]]>Mar 23rd 2006 11:25PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/Mar 24th 2006 12:49AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/03/23/who-do-you-call-when-your-hdtv-isnt/Mar 27th 2006 9:53AM