I've been wishing for this for a long time. Actually, it was Google Reader's behavior that made me think of it- when you subscribe to a blog via RSS, Reader wil

I've been wishing for this for a long time. Actually, it was Google Reader's behavior that made me think of it- when you subscribe to a blog via RSS, Reader will show you all of the archived entries back as far as anyone else on Google has subscribed to it. Very nice. I can only imagine that it's a content usage restriction, but you'd think they'd be able to lawyer their way out of it. The cable companies wouldn't even have to mimic Google's behavior- start by just allowing access to things you've personally recorded. The future, of course, is to skip all of this nonsense and just let you stream what you want, whenever you want, and pay exactly for that. Ah, well.