This may be of no interest to anyone whatsoever, but I cannot wait for the day when the television channels of the world are offered to all consumers in the same way one can buy cheese.
With today's technology there is no reason why we can't just go up to the TV and call up any channel we want, anywhere in the world. (Resolution issues are pretty much a thing of the past with digital conversion.) The signals are all there, all the time, available to the giant dish at your cable company. Why should that company "package" something for you that you can just as easily choose for yourself?
(the answer is the existence of a labyrinth of domestic and international contractual agreements that would make a bird's nest look like a straight line, but that's bound to change at some point)
500+ channels of pap are no different really than 1000 channels which would include the opportunity to watch some truly amazing things, even if you don't understand the languages.
That's my issue for the day.