Totally agreed. TiVo and the like are a partial fix, but I know >0 people recently who have totally nuked their cable subscriptions and gone 100% Netflix/iTunes

Totally agreed. TiVo and the like are a partial fix, but I know >0 people recently who have totally nuked their cable subscriptions and gone 100% Netflix/iTunes/torrents (the latter of which is worth a whole conversation in and of itself). The only reason I even bother with a cable sub these days is access to live news (MSNBC, etc.) and the increasingly minuscule amount of content I can't get online. Cable's days are numbered. It may be a big number since there a ways to go before streaming adoption really picks up, but they are numbered nonetheless.