It does suck not having it in HD, as the NTSC version of Spike seems very highly compressed and soft. I like to watch the Powerblock on the weekends, and even when it appears they started with an HD feed and downconverted it to NTSC (it's 16:9) it looks terrible. Even worse, because they broadcast it in 16:9, I end up with black bars on all four sides of my 16:9 TV set ... and then you're tempted to zoom it to fill the whole screen, and it's so low res that it almost gives you a headache watching it.