I am not blaming Dish on this as it is a broadcaster issue, but what good is a HD station when they play the movie "Hoosier' with sidebars (not widescreen) as they did last night on 'VS'. Not sure what they transmitted audio-wise. As some have indicated, just being listed as a HD station does not always 'truly' count (at least in my opinion).
The bad thing about that is that it's a SPLIT channel and they still hardly ever have HD. I appreciate that they are only wasting 1 channel instead of 2, but...
If they aren't going to simulcast the whole channel, they should just fill in between the actual HD events with something else. Even if it's just replays of the same events. As it is, it appears to me that they start on the Golf Channel, just leave it there until there's something in HD on VS...switch...leave it there until there's something in HD on Golf....switch...ect.
I understand the point of simulcast channels. But Golf/Vs has all of the drawbacks without any of the benefits. If I like to watch VS regularly, I'm not going to tune to the HD channel first, because half the time it's not there.