Sportsnet ramps up the regional HD

TORONTO – If you’re a hockey fan with a high definition television set, you want to see as many games as possible in crisp, clear HD. And if your favorite regional National Hockey League team is playing on Rogers Sportsnet, you don’t want to hear the technical and league reasons why there is poker on Sportsnet HD (shot in standard definition) while the game (shot in HD) appears in fuzzier analog on the SD Sportsnet channel. The reasons why that was, was confusing enough for those of us in the industry, let alone a regular hockey fan. Years ago, Sportsnet...