jimbo, is this what i hear you saying? FSN detroit is not your regional sports net. but you get to see the wings in sd because you pay extra for the sports subscription?
if d* eventually stopped spot beaming rsn's, would that mean you would get all the games in hd, provided you paid extra for the subscription?
Yes, to a certian extent.
See in reality, I Toledo, Sylvania, Ohio
SHOULD be in the Detroit RSN area, being only 48 miles from Detroit, however due to whoever makes these rules decides that my area should belong to the Cleveland and Cincy area, Cleveland is 2.5 -3 hours away and Cincy is closer to 4.
btw, I get neither in HD either.
I have talked to FSN Detroit and they said that D* needs to turn it on for me, I
amin the Detroit spot beam, I get a SS of 90+ on thier transponder.
D* says it's not thier call, it's a zip code issue, I am in Ohio (zip) not a Mich zip.
FSN D would love to have the Toledo/Sylvania area to be shown in HD.
I am trying to get an answer to find out who makes these desigins and talk to them, but so far no luck.
I emailed with a guy from the Tigers and he looked into it and said that the individual teams had nothing to do with it, that it was a D* matter.
So you see how the plot has turned full circle.
I still think it is a D* issue, probably the fact that they need more bandwidth... although this would be on the MPEG4 side, hence, not a bandwidth issue.
Jimbo