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Maybe they can’t afford the small piece of cable between our two ports.

I cut the cord about a year and a half ago and replaced my cable box with a Roku box.

We were not allowed to "move" a system on our own - even just an inch in order to move a cable.

Plugging in ethernet cables was okay, but if we dared to plug in a power cord on our own we were fucked.

Like with cable television...Or maybe I'm wrong about the corporate vision.

She doesn't recognize my dad's old Treo, which he gave her as a toy, as a phone, but will put a thin slab block up to her ear. We don't have cable at home, so she watches all her shows on Netflix and iTunes.

So, why didn't the cable operators do anything?

You unplug a cable, everything notices right away.

Growing up in that place and time was akin to 50s America - no cable, consoles, arcades, VCRs or handhelds.

Then watch them fumble around mentioning "oh if you have Netflix" and "isn't cable hard to use" and just the sheer lack of vision for the product.

""Audit trails are automatically generated, and can often be found on logs and cable trays.

There was a brief period where I missed the background noise but now I find broadcast/cable television unbearably grating.

A consumer would have attached a Y-splitter in front of his existing cable box and then added this new box in parallel.

[1] Prior to working at the FCC, Wheeler worked as a venture capitalist and lobbyist for the cable and wireless industry."Wow.

One would have loaded up his box by going to the cable company's website and picking movies from a large catalog -- one movie for slot "A" and another for slot "B".

The cable companies' competitive response to Netflix has been laughable although no worse than any other established industry's response to disruption.

"However, executives at Starz apparently concluded that they would lose even more money by giving consumers a reason to subscribe to Netflix instead of the cable channel.

Frankly I think the cable companies brought it upon themselves with the constant loud commercial interruptions, the garbage programming, and the utterly miserable cable box interfaces.

I know it would be painful, and the local politics certifiably insane, but if Google wanted draw attention to the dysfunctional monopoly of the cable industry, there would be no better place to wire than Philly.

The Court held that, in doing so, Congress intended to bring cable-like services such as Aereo into the Act's sweep regardless of the particular technological ways in which it handled the copyrighted material as it re-transmitted it to its users.

That the cable companies did next to nothing to combat this disruption is astounding given that they already owned and controlled a pipe into the customer's house!Imagine if, in 2002, the cable companies had come offered a little, Roku-esque box which could hold two almost DVD-quality movies.