The situation with cable is interesting. I really think they should take the bull by the horns and just start migrating all of their users to HD capable boxes. Customers who want HD would pay extra for enabling HD output, but all would receive and tune the HD channels, but with SD quality. This way the cable companies would not need to have 2 versions of every channel. They just have the HD if there is one, or the SD until the HD version arrives. And people with an SD set would use the cable box in the same way as you would an ATSC to analog converter.
I hate the way now that I have HD all the HD channels are numbered as 902, 905, 907, when they should be 2,5,7...
"Ah, HD DVD, our old friend - we thought we'd never see you again. But there was no mistaking it, here's the logo tucked away in Chinese manufacturer TCL's booth on a China Blue HD deck next to a similar Blu-ray player."
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The situation with cable is interesting. I really think they should take the bull by the horns and just start migrating all of their users to HD capable boxes. Customers who want HD would pay extra for enabling HD output, but all would receive and tune the HD channels, but with SD quality. This way the cable companies would not need to have 2 versions of every channel. They just have the HD if there is one, or the SD until the HD version arrives. And people with an SD set would use the cable box in the same way as you would an ATSC to analog converter.
I hate the way now that I have HD all the HD channels are numbered as 902, 905, 907, when they should be 2,5,7...