At this point, I couldn't blame BB's production company. the show has been around a long time, it will cost a lot of money to change out everything with all the cameras they have in the house, and you don't know when CBS will cancel the show so why make the investment now if you aren't going to be guaranteed by CBS that there will be 5 more years of BB to make an investment pay off?
good to know it's still in SD as I didn't watch the premiere tonight and I can set up future recordings on the dish network DVR instead of HTPC because there is nothing to be gained by recording it in HD on the HTPC.