My roommate called me recently that the TV was not working at home, because his girlfriend wanted to watch TV. As it turned out, we never plugged the cable int

My roommate called me recently that the TV was not working at home, because his girlfriend wanted to watch TV. As it turned out, we never plugged the cable into the TV, we have lived in the same house for 3 years and neither of us ever watched cable TV during that time. (we do have a cable subscription because where we live you can't get cable internet without the TV and radio part attached...) I never understood why someone would pay a ridiculous amount of money (compared to say netflix) for a cable subscription and still think it's OK to be watching to ads for 25% of the time... It's time for cable companies to accept the truth: their technology and business model is old fashioned (a free harddisk record to "pause" TV is a solution to a problem that should not exist!).