Not really- my point is that why shouldn't GSN have an HD feed and why is it more of a waste of bandwidth
But you are. Your argument appears to be "the Byron channels are showing content that has been run into the ground on other channels at 4:00a." At least those have been run into the ground on other channels. GSN is showing crap that has been run into the ground *on GSN*.
The lone argument here is if, like many channels (Food Network comes immediately to mind, at least on FiOS), the SD version carries a West Coast feed while the HD version is East Coast. Otherwise, it's a waste of bandwidth because *it's the same signal.*
than channels that rerun the same things you could watch on any given Saturday/late night
Because I can't, necessarily. Maybe my local channel doesn't happen to be running a Byron show at the time I'm in the mood to have one on. I don't understand why "a exact duplicate channel versus a non-duplicate" is such a hard concept to understand.
To me it doesn't seem like it's that much of a major issue
...then why did you ask the question in the first place?
You asked a simple binary question, I answered that binary question and provided my reasoning for doing so. Certainly you are under no obligation to agree with me, but at the same time I don't think you're even acknowledging the arguments, either. And that makes people not want to bother with you.