Be careful with statistics (Score 1)

I love statistics. It is amazing how they steer a conversation in any direction the user wants. I'm not saying that paying to lease set top boxes isn't BS. It is one of the reasons I built an HTPC/Media Server and cut the chord with the cable companies. But let's look at why the statistics here are what they are. An annual cost of $231 isn't for 1 set top box. It is for multiple. Remember when you would have 1 TV with the cable box and the rest would just get whatever the TV could tune in? Well, now we have IPTV services, for example, like UVerse and FIOS. Can't get your signal without a box, so you have to get a box for every TV. So the rising costs isn't due to a single set top box going up in price as this article would suggest. It is still BS and I believe, especially in the IPTV world, that you should just be able to tune in to your TV service from any computer within your network. I've done just that with my home brewed solution.