voripteth said:Why they can supply locals in SD and not HD is a mystery to me.
Very easy mystery to solve. Providing locals in HD would consume several times the bandwidth, and thus need several additional satellites - or far more efficient compression protocols. I.e. it would cost E* many hundreds of millions of dollars to provide all locals in HD right now, using present technology.
It would be relatively easy to provide the national network feeds in HD. However, thanks to our federal government, most of us would not be eligible to receive them. I wouldn't be eligible to get any of the network HD channels.