There's not some dude flipping a switch from HD to SD during commercials. The system accepts both HD and SD input, and the commercials are in SD. What most likely happened is they had a problem with the HD feed and switched to the backup SD. A lot of times I've seen it after the HD breaks up for a while, like last season on Lost.
Best guess is that the satellite feed starts cracking up, and they switch to SD because it's lower bandwidth and more immune to interference.
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Morgan @ Mar 23rd 2006 8:23PM
There's not some dude flipping a switch from HD to SD during commercials. The system accepts both HD and SD input, and the commercials are in SD. What most likely happened is they had a problem with the HD feed and switched to the backup SD. A lot of times I've seen it after the HD breaks up for a while, like last season on Lost.
Best guess is that the satellite feed starts cracking up, and they switch to SD because it's lower bandwidth and more immune to interference.