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But this is where you're wrong. What you call 'programs' on an iPad is actually 'content'. It's just a different medium than the videos & music available on your cable box.

What you want is a general purpose computer. iPad is NOT a general purpose computer. It's a next generation consumer content device.

To think of it another way, if you produced a cool ass video, do you think you shopuld be able to give it away for free on the cable box? And because you can't, are you pissed about it?

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1. TVs do have standard inputs. If I produce video, anyone can show it on their TV using standard hardware.

2. The cable box has no easy way to get my video onto it -- that is, the restriction is actually due to the cable box not having a feature, not due to the feature being locked down. Its input is a coax cable. Given a device that can create a TV signal, I would expect the cable box to be able to decode it. Actually that is related to an issue with cable boxes: for just watching TV (i.e. no on-demand stuff), the cable box does nothing but handle DRM. It *is* an annoyance.

3. If I want a video to show up on everyone's cable boxes, I can probably get it shown on government public access TV. Of course, this would be silly since video web sites like YouTube/Vimeo exist, but it could be done.

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