Re:Why don't they use it instead (Score 1)

I think your system is a good start to what I would envision for the future. While I don't know that $3 an episode is correct, it makes sense that you would have to charge on some kind of basis in order to substitute for historical earnings of commercials.

Which makes me think, why do you have to pay for cable tv? If it is simply to pay for the physical cable comming to your house, then eventually the equity and value of that cable would reach zero, or near zero. Don't networks already make money off commercials?

Maybe I'm just not seeing the whole picture, but a change of distribution doesn't seem to be the network's problem, just the cable companies... they're the ones I'm not paying to come into my house.