Wondering why Letterman is taking such a long break over the last few weeks? It was to install the show's new HD cameras. Late Show starts broadcasting in HD with Monday's show 08/29/05.

Whether we want to see Dave Letterman in HD might be a different story.

Older Dave can't look any weirder than younger Conan.

And his guests on the 29th? McEnroe and Andy Dick. Not really an incentive to run out and get an HDTV.

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Maybe he'll do a special Monday edition of "Will It Float?" to kick things off.

Finally.

You know Dave will have fun with this...

"We're in the HD now, Paul!"

Probably get a lot of close ups of goofy things with the text "IN HD!!!" flashing on and off the screen.

Awesome. I think they should hire a few more Will It Float dancers to celebrate the occasion.

Cool! I'm ready for it.

I believe the HD cameras have been in place for quite sometime, but the control room wasn't yet. They're going HD without much fanfare so they can work the bugs out.

I'm curious if they'll do any HD-stunts like Conan did for his HD debut?

what did he do?

Had Pamela Anderson dancing in the black bars while the picture was 4:3. Also just showing himself in the black bars while non-HD viewers saw nothing. Just general goofy Conan stuff.

I hope we get:

Top Ten things you do not want to see in HD
10. Closeup of David Letterman
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1. Close up of Martha Stewart

not exactly, non hd viewrs see the show letterboxed with bars on the top and bottom.
so those people saw a block box in the middle and black bars on the top and bottom as well.

"Monty" in HD!

Or bring back the "Late Show Dancers"

Bumping for the debut in 20 minutes or so (on my CBS Station anyway).

ok... I'm watching... where the hell is the HD picture? Isn't it suppose to be in Widescreen?

It's widescreen/HD on the Boston affiliate. They definitely needed better guests to debut this... wow, I'm going to bed.

I'm crossing my fingers.

I called my CBS affiliate before I left my office and they confirmed they were aware of Letterman debuting in HD tonight and said if there were no problems with the show, that it would be in widescreen HD tonight.

45 minutes and we'll see.

About McEnroe, if you're a Letterman fan, you know he's nothing if not loyal. The city of New York gets the US Open and Letterman almost always has John on Day 1 to kick things off and give a reminder to people that the tournament is starting. It was a classic visit the year McEnroe served a ball into a window from on top of a building across the street.

I actually got to see a little of Maria Sharapova in HD earlier. Very nice.

If you're looking forward to his first HOT guest in HD, that would be Rachel Weisz on Wednesday.

Stephen Colbert is on Friday and that should be a riot.

Let's hope she leaves those eyebrows at home..

I missed tonight...did he mention it at all? I DID see Rupert dancing. That was about it.

Yes, he mentioned it...he said the picture was so clear that you could see the serial number on his toupee and later asked if the High Definition would help with the jokes.

Wow, this looks so amazing! I would watch Dave with no guests tonight.

I can't believe I live in this shitty city where NBC, ABC, Fox, and UPN so far refuse to let cable or satellite use their HD feeds. The WB is close, I'm told.


He's talking about the HD more right now. Showing bacon frying in high-def and stagehands smoking in Hi-Def, Dave comments that it makes all the difference in the world.

Then says what you want on the first night in Hi-Def is a guy named Dick (Andy Dick is on the show).

Now a fake CBS promo that says "Watch the late show in Hi-Def tonight...what a waste of technology."

Top 10 list-Top 10 reasons George Bush is having a bad summer vacation:
#1 Spent last week setting up a new television to watch Late Show in Hi-Def.

just some vidcaps for those that don't get HD so they can see what it looked like.. After all, it's not just bacon, it's bacon in HIGH DEF!

As for the letterman himself in HD he held up ok.. I was thinking he was going to look like a zombie or something.

He did have at least two sores on his hands as far as I could tell.

There was also an Alan Kalter "I Don't Think So! in HiDef" segment. Including an address where churches can send away for a DVD copy.

According to some posters over at the AVS forums, we can thank that ridiculous hour long newscast (with that annoying 5 minute Katrina destruction footage that capped the broadcast). Since they delyaed Letterman by 40 minutes, they were only capable of sending out the SD signal, rather than the HD one.

I'm definatley gonna call and inquire if they plan on making this a habit. Funny thing is, they have links on their KHOU website telling what and how great HDTV is.

God Damn Fucking Idiots !!!! Those bastards always blow any type of "news" coverage out of proportion.

I guess we Houstonians are at their mercy: