This is a great step in the right direction. For me, even though I have DirecTV I don't get my locals in HD because I live in rural Kansas. At least now I'll have the option to zoom in on a letterboxed SD presentation and see what I'm missing in SD.
A lot of people were saying yesterday (at least from what I read) that a lot of local affiliates were simply chopping off the sides of the broadcast to have it fill out the whole 4:3 screen. I mean, wow.
Yep, thats what happened in the Savannah market, which of course made it worse when they put up the stats as you could only see the Falcon side.
You heard them people, go purchase one of these fancy-schmancy flatscreened whoosa-whatsits lest they tunnel-vision us.