Not The World's Best Case Of Timing

On the night that the NHL playoffs start Round 2, and my favourite TV show - Lost - returns with new episodes, I came home to discover that our Scientific Atlanta cable box has decided that we're no longer authorized to use it! We've called Rogers three times already, and they keep attempting to fix the situation, but as of right now - three hours after the first call and just over an hour before Lost starts - we're still confined to watching our TV in Standard Definition mode. Ugh. How did we ever watch television this way for all those years?