We finally pulled the plug on Comcast in favor of a life free from appointment viewing. Sure, we could have signed up for Tivo to be able to filter out all the meaningless commercials and be free to watch when we wanted to. But that's another X dollars every month that could be spent on better things. And I hate paying big corporations lots of money for crappy services. The only sell argument the Comcast representative could come up with when I told him I wanted to cancel was: 'It's only $40 per month'. Pathetic!
So no more movies, huh? Au contraire, my dear reader. It's all about Netflix and iTunes. Netflix is shipping 4 new movies every second to third day and from iTunes I can buy TV-shows (even my old favorite Night Rider) and use them on our Mac-Mini, PowerBook, LCD Screen or iPod. THAT rocks!
But, but... what about News? Glad you asked! Yahoo! News and RRS is delivering anything I need to my desktop. I've never enjoyed the snippets of news that most networks provide, chopped up in small easily digestable pieces wrapped in degrading commercials and repeated so often that your desire to hurl surpaces any other reflective reaction your body can muster.
That said, I like solid, informative and objective news (think BBC or PBS) without all the small talk and without commercials. The killer app would be a subscription offer for commercial-free news automatically downloaded to the iPod or iTunes, just like podcasts but with video.
Finally, I'd love for Google, Yahoo! or a smart startup to offer broadband for free. Then we could delete our relationship with one of the last big dinosaurs - at&t. But I'm confident it's just a matter of time before that happens. Until then we can always free-ride on our neighbors WiFi. Who said there is no free lunch?
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