HDTV finally arrives

When I started shopping for a new "big screen" TV to replace my old 27" SONY, I did a lot of research, and realized that HDTV was actually starting to become available in my area.  I had a lot of help from the nice folks at the Home Theater Spot, and wound up buying a 65" Mitsubishi Widescreen TV with an integrated HDTV tuner.  

Once the TV was in, we hooked up 3 Dish Network Satellite Dishes ( my house is surrounded by 100' fir trees, and this was the only way to "see" the satellites through the trees).  This gave us more channels than anyone can watch, but more importantly 4 HDTV channels.  They are awesome ( Discovery HD, ShowtimeHD and HBOHD primarily).

I then realized that Seattle stations were broadcasting HDTV over-the-air, and began a quest for an antenna that could actually pull the signals in from such a long distance ( 65 - 70 miles of rugged terrain ).  Eventually, I put up a parabolic UHF antenna, and am pulling in strong signals for ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS.  CBS has done a great job with their Prime Time shows, and we are really starting to enjoy shows like CSI, which are broadcast in HDTV!

Since Fall 2002 most Primetime shows are now broadcasting in High Definition.  We also can sometimes tune in PBS at night, which has amazing scenic shows like, "Over British Columbia".  Rumor has it that Comcast Cable will start adding a few HDTV channels early next year, so there is hope that we'll all be watching it soon.

If you live near a large city, it's highly likely that you could be getting HDTV at your house.  If you do get it, you won't want to watch your old TV's any more!  We schedule all of our TV viewing around what is in HDTV now, which has turned us into big CBS fans ( before HDTV, we never watched CBS ).  They even broadcast the NFL playoffs in HDTV, which was awesome, and was the first football gave I have watched on TV in about 5 years!