HD anyone?

I did it. I upgraded to a full blown flat screen on the wall Hi Def and all. Yep. Bought the whole package. Every channel including News from Mars. Yep, even got HD. And, bought the full football packge --NFL and NCAA.

I sat back one lovely Sunday afternoon and anticipated watching about 14 games in HD only to discover that, even though I had purchased HD and the complete football package, my football came in the old fashioned, antiquated, out of vogue, regular TV format. Gosh, it was almost square--what if my friends and neighbors peeked through the window?

I called my friendly DIRECTV hotline and, after wading through six levels of menus and entertaining music, I was informed that I had failed to purchase the Football in HD package at a mere $99*. (*note that the specify regular season--I wonder what will happen during the playoffs?).

Trapped. I knew not what to do. So I forked over another $99.

I wonder if they will charge for color.