Something I’m noticing this summer, about two years after getting a big big television and a year after getting high definition: I’m watching a lot less variety in channels and a lots less content that is standard definition. Additionally, this might be the slowest summer for television for me, ever. Now I’m a few years into my experience as a time-shifting television watcher, so perhaps that has a lot to do with it. I’m still convinced that you could get decent ratings for programs in the summertime if we counted DVR users overall, but whatever. That would require good television to be on regularly during the summer months.
So between summer, plus my absolute love for high definition programming, I’m in this wheelhouse of about 10-12 channels for the most part, and a whole lot of movies. Hell, I even have an upconverting DVD player so I can watch movies that way, too. It’s hard to get away from it. Standard definition television looks fine on most TVs, including my own, but when you flip between the HD and the SD, you just want no part of the old way of doing things. Am I the only one having this problem?
