Hardware: Fine and dandy, Strib reports our president says there should be competition on cable TV boxes for signal descrambling to TVs.
Great.
Software: Where's the dude on the question of unbundling cable packages? Yes, they can say you subscribe to "x number of channels" as a minimal service connection requirement - but let us pick and choose. I detest Pat Robertson's being bundled into our household, while some cable sports are "premium" content. Not that Par Robertson on anyone's spectrum would be termed "premium," but that's not the question.