The future of TV

So the iPod now plays videos, cool, sounds like a great idea of form and function, since we know Apple already mastered that. 320x240 screen, eh well it is a handy device, $1.99 an episode, uhm what? Let's look from the beginning, free Over-The-Air (OTA) TV is kept free by ads, which is why a 30min show is really around 22-24 min depending on syndication. Ok so I have to watch commercials because that's how the free stations stay free or need to go PBS style and ask for donations every so often, sounds good. Cable, you are going to charge for TV and offer more channels, ok cool, but you need to keep commercials in just for now to help with costs, sounds fair. Flash forward they never remove the commercials because they became so dependant on the revenue, yes this is how cable was suppose to work, someone got the bright idea to double dip and no one stopped buying cable. Oh and wait in there the VCR almost caused the industry to die because, NO ONE WILL WATCH COMMERCIALS, gee golly gosh Fred what ever will we do, uh-oh now we have these PVR things and now people don't even see the commercials zip buy as they fast forward they just triple click and the show is on, queue Rise of the Apocolypse. Wait so if we sue everyone, say that piracy and the internet is causing birth defects and a generation of theives we can get somewhere. Oh look at your shiny new PVR now, what you want to copy a show, no no no, no to that device, oh but you can copy it here where I say oh yeah and guess what I will force your machine to delete the content after a week because we know how much you want it on DVD anyway so shell out more money for the season don't keep it on that PVR. Which brings us full circle, cable we pay for, which is being restricted more and more to lock us in to missing one shows climactic ending, ala the old end the show at 10:05 trick, to watch another show on a different network, wait you mean you change the channel. Listen up I pay for TV, if I want to watch this show tomorrow I already paid for it, I want to watch it 10 times a week for 2 weeks, good for me, I paid you already get off my back. Charging me to own a show in resolution less than some guy sitting on his bed taping it with spy camera glasses is just dumb. That means if you buy a whole season of Lost $34, but wait the DVD is $40 and is 720x480, hrm that doesn't sound right at all, over double the quality for a mere $10 after tax. Television needs to seriously rethink their strategy, it's why I own a seris 1 TiVo, no access control on my box, besides the previous mentioned 10:05 trick, go ahead do it, change all the shows to start at random ass times, why do you think people download all your shows, DUH! It's backward ass thinking that higher ups say, "I know lets lock them in to our network so they will watch "Where Grass and Neighboors Meet Season 9" that we are still pushing" while all the interesting shows never make it past season 2 if that. How about we start over, start shows at normal times, let shows run for a season or 2 before deciding to drop them, and just let us watch. Hell I've rewound on my TiVo to catch a funny commercial, it's been known to happen, hell I may even buy something like Evergreen Rainforest Smelling Tide Ver. 8 because I know I need to do laundry and happened to catch it. In essence stop trying to force us to think what you want us to think, we'll let you know when we've decided what's good and what's not and you'll still make you billions of dollars just in time for Christmas. The more you network TV asshats try to restrict my TV watching the more I'm just going to give up and wait for someone to post it on the internet, in 1080x1920 resolution, commercial free and free as in linux. You have the original masters, you have the computing power and you have the bandwidth, make it easy, affordable as in $1 and in any resolution up to 1080i I want and why would I go anywhere else. I want the quality, you just aren't providing it for me and yet my money goes where it only has the choice and that's the cable TV people. Oh and another thing, cable asshats, stop stuffing 9 channels of HD down a pipe that can only hold 5, if you can't broadcast in full 15mbps per stream don't make it look like shit by claiming to offer more HD channels than the other guy, no one wants to watch their episode in HD only to have it more pixelated than an if the episode was stored on an Atari 2600 cartridge. The point of HD in case you missed it is CRYSTAL CLEAR images, not crap that looks fuzzy and like I just downloaded the episode only this is 1998 internet and I have to deal with something the size of a postage stamp.