According to this website an several others, it appears that Raycom will be producing their SEC football games in HD this season!

That means that even the early games will be HD, and I won’t have to mumble and gripe about the lousy picture quality for 3 or so hours every Saturday. I think this means that all my football viewing should be HD this season!

WOOHOO!!!!

WooHoo! Got home today, and my new receiver was already here! Good stuff!

Now I’m back in business!

I have a glorious 50″ Widescreen HDTV of nothingness right now. I plugged my satellite receiver back in after the storms last night only to be met with a constant reboot cycle. I had about 30 hours of stuff recorded on the DVR including my child’s favorite show (Blue Man Group: How to Be a Rock Star Tour).

Now the moving “No Video Signal” banner taunts me as if to say “Now what, allergy boy?” “You are allergic to the entire world this time of year so getting outside isn’t feasible… now you have no satellite TV goodness. Victory is mine!”

Stupid “No Video Signal” banner.

My son is looking at the TV, and if he could talk he would be saying (with his most dissapointed face) “Daddy, why can’t the blue man come on?”

I must have a DVI-HDMI cable. I must rescue this situation. Hulu, don’t forsake me now.Come on DVD collection… ham radio, i’ll need you too. Must…entertain… self….

*end transmission*.

All week I have been looking forward to the launch of AMC-14, the newest satellite to be used by Dish Network to deliver more HD content. The launch went off with no problems, but the second burn did not go well.

AMC-14 has been lost. It never made the intended orbit. No word on if it actually went “blooey” or not, but it doesn’t appear to be recoverable.

This sucks, my friend.

Yes. I am really this big of a geek.

So, my Father-in-law and i were sitting in my living room the other night. Normal stuff… TV Channel flipping.

“Hey, go to Bestbuy.com and look at this TV”. He says.

“Ok.. hmm.. looks pretty good, great price on that set” Says I.

“Well, do you want one?”

“Why, yes… yes I do.”
So my FIL has officially won “Father-In-Law” of the year, because we got up and went to Best Buy and he purchased matching 50″ DLP TV’s. One for him… one for me. Now, my theory on that is that he wants to know how to use the remote when he comes to visit… much the same reason he bought us a recliner, so he’d have a place to sit when he comes to visit. Pretty funny, but ultimately I reap the benefits.

Dish Network has been called. HD Satellite service will be installed on Saturday. The peasants will rejoice. Until then, I can still get my local DTV stations with a set of rabbit ear antennae, which was almost impossible with a standard NTSC TV. The static was just too much. Not so when you go digital. The format is still a little immature. The standard needs to be set and everyone needs to comply with it (Like they did with Color TV several decades ago). At any rate. I have a TV that, for the room I have, is like being at the movie theater. It works nicely with my surround sound too.

Alabama football parties at my place this fall are going to ROCK!