> Until IPTV or whatever you want to call it can perform as well as cable, and it can't yet, I don't see cable dying. As someone who recently moved from Time W

> Until IPTV or whatever you want to call it can perform as well as cable, and it can't yet, I don't see cable dying. As someone who recently moved from Time Warner Cable to U-Verse, U-Verse (which is an entirely multicasted IPTV system) is substantially faster than TWC in terms of channel acquisition speed — it's literally instantaneous. I suspect a lot of that has to do with Time Warner's increasing use of switched digital video rather than encrypted QAM, but that certainly isn't going to change anytime soon.