Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.
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People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.
I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
It's been possible for years to use a PC to watch and record over-the-air television broadcasts, and unencrypted cable television tuners have been available almost as long. But for a long time, you could only watch copyright-protected channels with a cable company-leased box.
A lot of credit goes to Google TV for helping that process get started and helping to build something like Chromecast.
There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.
When you go to cable, there are no stations and no affiliates and they allow you to do your show.
I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.
Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch.
I don't have cable, and it's glorious.
I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.
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