University of Hawaii games stay SD, for now
Warrior football fans will need to watch their next QB to put up incredible college numbers and proceed to a career as practice squad NFL QB in standard def for the next season or two. Local station KFVE/KHNL just doesn't see it being feasible to put its PPV University of Hawaii games in HD yet (although the local cable channel on Oceanic already shows high school games in HD). The good news (we guess) is that HD is on the way, someday, unfortunately the cost of the necessary new facilities -- despite the Hula Bowl managing to go HD -- has put it on the back burner at the moment.
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Big Sam @ Jul 5th 2008 12:01PM
Wow first they lose their bowl game badly, then they lose their coach, now this.
wewa @ Jul 5th 2008 2:12PM
This announcement is to appease the fans constantly berating them about getting HD.
This is not a technical issue.
This is purely financial.
Hawaii has no pro anything. Football, Baseball, Hockey, nada.
So the fans are starved and desperate, so they shell out thousands every season for high school, college, any sports they can get their hands on.
If they did UH games, which they collect $14 mil on now, in HD, so many will stay home instead of paying $75 for a TV season pass in SD, as they do now, with little choice.
http://starbulletin.com/2008/05/21/sports/story01.html
So they are just trying to milk the fans, another year or two, until they really get pissed, and then give in and lose their franchise to the power of HD at home...
Hopefully, ESPN will come to the rescue again this season, broadcasting UH games in HD, otherwise, I'll just ignore the entire UH season this year, as I'm not a fan that pays.