I wonder if anyone has ever explored the idea of pay-per-view access to movie channels like Showtime.  My mother has DirecTV, but she doesn’t get Showtime (she gets HBO, Cinemax, and Starz).  I have Showtime and about all I watch on it is Dead Like Me.  It would seem like the technology is already there to handle this kind of thing, it just needs to be applied to this.  That way, I could watch just the shows I wanted and not have to pay for the channel when I’m not using it.  Of course for the economics to work out, the charges would have to be less than the typical pay-per-view movie.

Of course, I could just wait until I get back to Denton and watch it on the Tivo.