To their credit, the announcers on the HD channel gave more information about the history of most the nations ("Madagascar is the fifth largest island in the world" "Hey, here comes one of the world's last Communist nations" "Here's Vietnam, we were at war with them for a long time"), although very little information about where each country was located, which would be helpful for a 3D globe or something to appear for these "WTF? I've never heard of them" nations. 
  
The only problem is the woman they have with him sounds like Rocky the Flying Squirrel.  
 Atleast HD people don't have to hear Costas voice. For some reason, I just can't stand it when he opens his mouth. He is so damn annoying.