On 1/ the content was always split across providers - you just had a middle man bundling pointless shit in with the stuff you wanted and charging you more. If a

On 1/ the content was always split across providers - you just had a middle man bundling pointless shit in with the stuff you wanted and charging you more. If a "single user interface" is what you want, my Apple TV does some aggregating across apps. It's good enough I'm replacing my other TV's roku with another Apple TV (just got to figure out the digital output). On 2/ can you do that with cable? Inside your own country, could you take your laptop and watch your cable subscriptions on the road? DVDs are region locked too. I've have also watch some Netflix content in Europe with my US Netflix account when I was traveling so it's not a 100% block.