To be fair, once you watch like 55% of your games (all the WGN and CSN home games, plus the occasional national game) in HD, the other half or so look pretty freakin crappy. Yeah, I'll live. But once you get used to HD, other stuff looks pretty crappy. Like VHS compared to DVD. I guess since I don't have an HD TV I really can't get into the whole HD craze. Yeah, it definitely looks better, not not so much that I feel like I'm really missing anything not watching it in HD. With DVD's, I'm buying movies and TV shows that typically are shot to be of a certain expected level of "filmed" quality, so there I definitely appreciate any advances in picutre clarity much moreso than when I watch sports. As long as I can see what's going on, I'm good. HD really isn't ging to highlight something I'm going to miss otherwise. Neither will color, really -- you'll still see the game as it happened for the most part. But I bet you wouldn't want to watch the Cubs in B&W But I don't want to hijack the thread :wink: I JUST WANT THE CUBS ON HD IN THE PLAYOFFS! 8-) Yeah, it took me a long time to get my HD service straightened out, and it really does make a huge difference. All the faults of regular broadcasts just stand out now. It's comparable to the difference between getting a solid regular cable system and a less than perfect over the air signal in my opinion. It's enough of a difference that I now deliberately watch programming in HD that I wouldn't have watched in SD. ...and I know that's not just me. Everyone I know is the same.