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Aargh, I'm in NBC hell.

I'm in a different sort of NBC hell right now. Now that I've got my shiny HD-TiVo installed and working, I figured I'd just program it to grab the over-the-air HD signal and I'd have my HD Olympics. Oh, how naive I was.

Turns out, my local NBC OTA feed is an upconverted version of their SD signal. After an hour of reading through the complaints on AVS Forum, I learned that NBC has rented channel 84 on DirecTV to play their HD feed in a continuous loop, but that not everybody was being allowed to receive it due to weird rules that the local NBC affiliate needs to give permission to effectively give up their monopoly on the local market. Thankfully, it works for me.

So now I've got my HD-TiVo programmed to grab the satellite HD feed from 3am-11am to get yesterday's Olympic highlights, such that I can browse them at high speed tonight. Or something like that. Thankfully, I'll be able to fast-forward through the Greek scenery flybys and lame Sony WEGA commercials.