Well I traded up bedroom TVs.  I was using an old CRT 19″ Sony and moved up to this Toshiba 19″ HD.  I’ve discovered a very fascinating thing about it though. As you may or may not be aware we’ve made the switch to digital broadcasts which also allows for over the air HD broadcasts. Some stations were already broadcasting in HD before the switch but now all your local channels should definitely be.  Knowing this I thought to myself that it kind of sucks that I can have my cable plugged in and get all those channels but need to plug into an antenna for the over the air HD stuff.

Well this is actually false. When I setup the auto-tune it picked up on all the digital channels and local HD channels! This only makes sense of course due to the switch, but it’s a very pleasant surprise. I get all the regular channels plus, strangely, Animal Planet in HD. If only I could trade Animal Planet for Food Network!

So when I was at the parent’s house in SA I decided to retune their TV as well and there were the HD channels! Wimbledon in HD was pretty great I must say. Anyway, if you bought a new TV with an ATSC tuner you should retune and check out all your local digital/HD stuff.