Two months ago I canceled my satellite service. I was paying 80 bucks a month for a couple hundred channels of pure dreck. All the news channels have gone down the drain, movie channels were full of dull repeats, and specialty channel after specialty channel showing the reality show after reality show (next on the history channel: Ice Truck Drivers!). There are just so many World War II and Mythbusters repeats you can watch in one lifetime. I have replaced the dish with the likes of NetFlix, iTunes (Top Chef!), outright stolen shows (how else am I supposed to get Doctor Who from BBC?), and the latest video service betas. I'm not talking about the low resolution stuff from YouTube but new services like Joost (microsoft is also trying to get into the game). Joost and iTunes represent the future of video content delivery. They are solving the problems that the cable and satellite companies failed at time and time again.
What does this have to do with food? Running Joost tonight I stumbled upon Australian Food TV! Where else can you learn about cooking Kangaroo (98% fat free!) and wonderfully common phrases like "lesson in protein chemistry" and "wax coating tends to stick in your teeth, awful that" in an Australian accent!