I have owned an HD TV for over a year and finally found a use for the tuner*. My cable feed of Fox was horrid, so I went through the trouble of actually switching my display to broadcast, finding the correct channel and connecting the digital out to my receiver.

I watched the Dayton 500 on and off for it's duration. Very nice except for the times my signal dropped. But it was solid for most of the time.

Broadcast is not dead, my friends. Not completely... The gyrations I would have to go through to watch HD on cable is not worth it to me though...not yet**.

* I find most broadcast TV pointless. I hate reality TV and sitcoms, and watch very little sports. I am more into History Channel, Discovery Channel and poker. I got a plasma for XBox 360 and DVD watching in wide screen; not for broadcast or cable.

** I have a working Tivo box but it does not do HD. The series 3 is very expensive. I have not heard good things about local options for DVRs along with HD service.

OTA HD brought me back to the Networks. At least for now.

Welcome to the HD club Michael, personally, I watch more network television than cable/satellite, so I don't subscribe to HD services, even though I have E* and Charter (I only have Charter because I get it free through work, actually our local cable company doesn't even offer HD, so it's just there as a back up.) But I have a Sony HDG-HDD250 DVR and have all the networks in HD and don't have to pay a dime for them.

Michael,

You might find you watch more network OTA TV now with HD. PBS-HD has some good stuff if it is the National Feed, much like some of the History Channel/Discovery programs.

CSI Miami in HD is just fun to watch in HD. Maybe not something you would watch every week, but is good HD.

I find some of this stuff pulls me in just because it is in HD.

Yea I agree. I think more than anything HD has ironically opened me up to the beauty of film moreso than ever. Being able to get a truer representation of the orignal negative when watching a filmed episodic (CSI: Miami, Cold Case, etc) along with the 5.1 really changes dramatically the experience of consuming television. There have always been strong shows that I've liked even in 4:3 SD, but sometimes I wonder what those shows would've been like to experience in HD. What if Star Trek: TNG, or MacGuyver, or Hill Street Blues or the A-Team had been in HD 16:9 surround sound? How would the experience of consuming those programs have been different. The same can be said for music videos -- watching an HD copy of a music video even in stereo is still a completely different experience than the old MTV days. Concerts and award shows are no exception. Even the ESPN studio shows like Sportscenter, I think are dramatically different now than just 5 years ago. In the grand scheme of things in terms of pushing the products into a new golden age HD has really been a positive for both the movie and television businesses. Filmmakers and TV people are rediscovering their presentation mediums and with forums like this paying much greater attention to the final product and delivery methods. 20 years ago if Blu-Ray disc existed, I'm not sure how many people would've seen the need to have that kind of quality in their living rooms. Now we not only expect it but demand it.

I have had an HD set for over 2 1/2 years. I STILL go WOW from time to time! :)

I will join with the OP and say that watching anything in HD is transformative in regards to the viewing experience. Golf....I have been watching and archiving golf tournaments for over a decade. Watching golf in 100% HD (CBS) is like seeing each course for the first time.
Watching the Grammys in HD on a big screen feels like I am in the audience...rather than a detached observer of a picture on a small box.

It is indeed all good.