&quot;I know someone with a Comcast cable box whose channel menu forces the viewer to pass over a banner advertisement after every fourth channel. This combined with the horrible rubbery buttons on the remote means that to browse through twenty channel titles takes perhaps as many seconds.&quot;<p>How weird is it that the equipment is still so slow? I mean, in 2005 I was grumpy about how slow cable TV gear is. Now it&#x27;s 2015 and seems like it&#x27;s exactly the same, whenever I see it.<p>What is so hard about using processors with clock speeds measured in megahertz and not kilohertz nowadays? I swear, Comcast is probably paying <i>extra</i> to some supplier holding the last supply of their specialized MegaSlowz chips with the SuperProprietaryFeature that you Can&#x27;t Reimplement Anywhere Else.