Fire temporarily takes out several HD networks
By Darren Murph 
posted Sep 13th 2007 10:13PM
posted Sep 13th 2007 10:13PM
If you noticed any outages earlier this week -- particularly when trying to view A&E HD, The History Channel HD, YES HD and NFL Network HD -- chances are an early morning fire at a Stamford, Connecticut building were to blame. Reportedly, the fire broke out in a building "that houses facilities for several programmers and a company that does uplinking for them," and while it took less than a day for A&E HD and The History Channel HD to resume operation, the other two channels took a bit longer to get back on track. Nothing like a brief outage to make you realize how critical HD is to your well being, eh?
Missed the Yankees/Blue Jays game on YES HD last night because of this. Had to watch the *shudder* SD version.
If you can really call A&E HD "HD"
Normally, I'd think that there would be precautions and redundancies to prevent outages, but then, I guess I'd be wrong.