There are so many facts wrong in your post that I sincerely hope you don't work in the technical field of broadcasting. OTA uses MPEG-2 (same codec as on DVD's), which is a lossy compression technique. ABC NBC and CBS stations all take an MPEG-4 feed from their network and re encode it to MPEG-2; FOX stations get MPEG-2 video that they then "splice" is their network bug and local commercials and promos. Getting a lousy picture on digital TV from a poor or unaligned antenna is a lie that salesmen use. If the signal isn't strong enough the picture will drop out, you'll see big blocks everywhere, its quite obvious. Anyways, I have an outdoor antenna with actual line of sight to the towers on top of Sandia Peak and I can very easily see compression artifacts on each station; some are worse than others because they have sub-channel. If you can't see them you don't know what is meant by artifacts, you need glasses, your TV is small, or you sit a long ways away. Cable systems *usually* pass on the local stations exactly as they are. DirecTV and Dish Network re compress them back to MPEG-4. Thats right, when you watch ABC/CBS/NBC on D* its gone from MPEG-4 to MPEG-2 and back to (a much lower bandwidth) MPEG-4 video. Is 4k/UHD pretty silly? Yes, because in the end we'll just get an overly compressed junk signal just like regular HD, because that means more channels crammed in and more cash for the providers.

Do you have any evidence of this? How exactly would a small car cause an SUV to roll over? Even in a side collision the small car will be impacting below the SUV's center of gravity. I've been in 2 wrecks involving an SUV, neither time did the SUV roll over. I wasn't driving either time. I also know of cases where there was a roll over, and no one died. That was from driving too fast on a curve, where SUV's are indeed much more prone to rolling. Another dangerous situation in a small car is being hit in the side by a large SUV where the impact is above the door.

Does it really? http://allthingsd.com/20100308/hate-paying-for-cable-heres-the-reason-why/ I totaled every channel in the left column at about $19, the other 3 can't be more than $10 altogether. Once you get HD service for a couple of TV's and your promo pricing expires your looking at around $90 with D*. Of course that price list is an average of what cable/DBS services pay. But if anything Directv pays less. If google is just looking to break even on TV cost as a bonus to their fiber service they could very easily offer a large number of channels for $50/month.

That's not really true. By the late 50's you could find a B&W TV for less than $200, roughly $1500 in today's dollars. The average new car in 1960 cost $2600. I doubt $200 would buy a car that could actually run. http://www.tvhistory.tv/tv-prices.htm (See: '56 GE $129 (14"))

I'm an American, and I've gotten my grubby hands on a few BBC-HD rips (untouched not re-compressed). I can say that in both cases the video quality is better than any over the air channel in my market and MUCH better than the crap I get from Dish Network*. I only wish we had HD broadcasts at that quality. *Thats my subjective opinion.

How does your TOS read I wonder. Until recently I shared a 12mb/768kb DSL line with 3 room-mates from QWEST. I'm sure we nearly maxed the thing out most days during peak hours. *Most* of that traffic was actually legit. I pay thru the nose for it (~$70/month), but *gasp* somehow QWEST can afford to have a few customers actually use all of the service they pay for. I never received any sort of warning in over a year. How about ISP's actually giving their customers what they advertise. If you want to limit your customers, offer a plan for limited monthly bandwidth.

I don't know what sort of eye-sight you have, but on my HTPC I can certainly tell the difference between a DVD and broadcast HDTV. Thats on a 32" LCD and Blu-ray is supposedly better than broadcast HDTV. That said, I'm in no huge hurry to upgrade to Blu-ray. Its appears ATI has a very cheap HDCP capable card on the market now (HD 3450). Once Blu-ray drives get down to ~$100 (seen one as low as $180 on newegg). I'll probably pick one up. Netflix' Blu-ray stock should be quite high by then.