Are you on "Crack?" What makes you think that all tv, video, music, etc., should be programmed to your individual delights?
(Which are probably tainted!)

Because that's what the digital living room is all about. The way things are now is that you sit and watch what is handed to you, when it's handed to you. You have very little control over the content you watch at any given time. You're a given the choice between large media company 1's funny show or large media company 2's reality show, etc. Tivo and other DVR products have begun the fundamental shift. They give you some level of control over WHEN you watch, but they do little to change the choices you are given. I feel the next big blue-sky futurist vision for TV is the beginning of decentralization. It has already begun with the Internet....people spend less time watching TV because of the Internet, yet they are still being entertained. Many are entertained by music and videos they enjoy while online. All I'm saying is when there is more compelling content from independent producers (for example, the kids at your local college) then we'll see a shift in the television business. Right now the large content providers are trying to create a new business model with the large content aggregators like MSN, Yahoo, and Google. In the end however, I think it'll be the small content providers that overtake the large ones (probably in the range of 2010 or so is my guess) in some arenas in terms of popularity.