Sports and Media: Hockey's back and the fans really loved it last night. Attendance was capacity or 98% everywhere and the new rules are liked by both fans and players. So, what is the future of hockey? About twenty five years ago I was editing a movie across the street from Technicolor and one of the guys from there asked us to come over and "check out" this new TV from Japan called high definition. We went over and it was a mind blower. Sports was featured: car races, rodeo, and most especially hockey. It was hockey that stole the demo. For the first time you could see the puck, and the immediacy of the players meant that every check was a collision that made one grunt. I thought, "wow."

Segue to three or so years later: I'm attending a major function in New York and was seated for dinner just to the left of the CEO of the Madison Square Garden company. He was an interesting guy and in asking him stuff, I asked why he kept the pathetic Rangers. He looked me dead in the eye and told me about HiDef TV. He was "sure" that when people had it and HiDef was televised that hockey would rival football in popularity. So now we will see because millions of people own sets and all games are televised in HiDef.