If, and when, everything I've read here transpires, I'll just ditch all this exra crap, and go bare bones cable. If I wasn't forced to have boxes to get a signal in Feb 2009, heck, I just might go back to an antennae. I grew up without cable, I never used to have DVR, or HD. I can't stand rules, or government, and big brother(and boy does this smack of that) and I could easily get pissed off enough to just turn my back on it all. I'm sure there are many others that would agree. They better watch out...you don't want to bite the hand that feeds you.
But, then, I'm probably among the few that still holdout in not paying $45 a month for a cell phone. Don't care. Don't need it. Don't want it.