Are you ready for Cartman in HD? It has been announced that the thirteen season of South Park, premiering Wednesday, March 11th on Comedy Central, will be the first broadcast in high-definition.

On southparkstudios.com, the announcement also notes, "We are really excited because, not only will the season premiere be in HD, but we have been working hard for over a year re-rendering previous seasons in native HD. We are not up-converting the episodes, but actually going into each episode and re-rendering every shot and frame at true HD."

Comedy Central HD will begin airing today on Cablevision, and on Cox and DirecTV later this month, with more launches anticipated throughout 2009.