I have to admit I’ve become snobbish ever since I purchased an LCD HD TV, refusing to watch anything that wasn’t in spectacular high definition.
I’ve got the Comcast super mega, whippy-dippy, ultra fantastic package, meaning I have channels I’ve never heard of and never watch.
TruTV was one such channel I’d never heard, that is until the NCAA signed a deal with the CBS owned property to televise first round games of the men’s basketball tournament.
Comcast carries TruTV but I don’t have it in HD, so when I tuned in to watch UNC-Asheville take on Arkansas-Little Rock on Tuesday, it was like going through a time warp back to the 1970′s.
Maybe it was the lighting in Dayton Arena, but the picture was simply miserable compared to the HD channels I’ve become accustomed to watching.
Were it not for the excitement the game generated, I wouldn’t have bothered watching. In fact, I would have tuned in to most any program that was in HD, including Sewing With Nancy.
I’m not going to purchase a different package that carries TruTV in HD, because for a few first round games between teams that amount to fodder for the higher seeds, it just isn’t worth it.
I won’t have to suffer much longer when the real action begins on Thursday, but you’d think the NCAA would have signed a deal with a network that guaranteed the telecast would be in HD.
