And this is why thngs like the broadcast flag and the bill to close the analog hole are so scary. What if there comes a time when you have to buy shows because your devices refuse to record them? Or, maybe you were able to record a program, but you didn't watch it in time and your device deleted it because time was up?

I still don't see the point.

I love The Shield and a lot of the FX stuff, but really it's reruns 6 times a week and is by no means something most people are dying to see early so bad they'd pay more.

Getting shows early is fun and great but not $3 of fun. And the being able to download later is even stupider since your downloading it to, hmm, a dual tuner DVR. If you can't pull something via that means then you do deserve to be robbed for a buck per episode though.

What's really sad, Landon, is that I nabbed that graphic off a post on another WeblogsInc site, PVR Wire.

You works for Weblogs, Inc. and that's the best DirecTV logo you could find?

Tisk, tisk, tisk.