There’s no reason for fuzzy Sharks

As I write this, I’m watching game six of the San Jose Sharks/Calgary Flames NHL playoffs series…in standard definition. Why standard definition? I dunno. It’s being aired on Comcast Sports Network, yet Comcast Sports Network HD is airing nothing. Not nothing as in Bass Fishing or Pro Bowling, nothing as is nothing. Nothing as in no signal. I guess I don’t understand how television programming and scheduling works. But that doesn’t matter. All I know is that this is pretty dumb.

Of all professional sports, hockey benefits the most from HD quality broadcasting. It’s just too hard to watch in standard definition. This is coming from someone that practically took his first steps in hockey skates. I’ve been playing ice hockey since I was four. But even I got frustrated following the tiny, blurred puck move from fuzzy player to fuzzy player. To watch hockey, I had to be at the game.

But a hockey game in HD is completely different. You can see every detail. Every puck movement. Every hit. Every emotion. HD is how the game was meant to be viewed.

But here I am living in the so called “technology hot bed” of America, during the NHL playoffs, watching the Sharks in standard definition on an underutilized Samsung 50 inch plasma tv.

Sigh…

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