My roommate called me recently that the TV was not working at home, because his girlfriend wanted to watch TV.<p>As it turned out, we never plugged the cable into the TV, we have lived in the same house for 3 years and neither of us ever watched cable TV during that time. (we do have a cable subscription because where we live you can&#x27;t get cable internet without the TV and radio part attached...)<p>I never understood why someone would pay a ridiculous amount of money (compared to say netflix) for a cable subscription and still think it&#x27;s OK to be watching to ads for 25% of the time...<p>It&#x27;s time for cable companies to accept the truth: their technology and business model is old fashioned (a free harddisk record to &quot;pause&quot; TV is a solution to a problem that should not exist!).