According to Forrester, today's computers use more technologies common to the Whirlwind than any other computer of its time, including paralleldata transmission.
Even Microsoft is getting into the game with its ParallelData Warehouse (PDW) that enables SQL Server customers evolve their SQL databases to Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) architecture to take advantage of commodity hardware.
Judging by the usual trends on Twitter, we'll get our TV suggestions elsewhere, but it is an interesting parallel to the data already being collected and reported by companies like TiVo and GetGlue.