I finally got around to getting some high definition programming for my unnecessarily large television. As Dax might say, Just Damn! I’m finding that I’ll watch stuff I probably wouldn’t if it wasn’t in hi def, just because the picture looks so damned good.
I’m a big fan of IMAX movies, and I can now watch many of them in hi def. I watched a show about dolphins earlier tonight, narrated by Pierce Brosnan. The color and clarity are just amazing.
However, I’m not quite sure I’ll stick with Time Warner cable, which I currently have. The reason it’s taken me so long to get hi def programming is that I’ve been a Dish Network customer for many years. And a happy one. However, I didn’t want to shell out $700 bucks for a new hi def receiver with a PVR built in. Especially when new customers could get the same thing for about $250 plus a few bucks a month. And Dish didn’t really have enough hi def channels to justify that expense anyway.
But now that they’re purchased Voom, there’s a whole slate of new hi def channels soon to come online over at Dish. However, those channels are broadcast with MPEG4 video, and all the current Dish receivers are only capable of MPEG3 decoding. However, the 962 receiver is rumored for release sometime next year. At that time, I’ll be considered a new customer again, and can get the cheap deal on a new receiver, and they should have at least thirty hi def channels then. I can’t wait for that.
Drool….