In high-tech circles, cable bosses are seen as small-town people with a small-town mentality, running local monopolies badly and steeped in old-fashioned analogue technology.
The NCTA has already starting posturing on its blog, CableTech Talk, with a post highlighting all the wonderful changes in the video distribution industry in the past 20 years -- however, curiously, the upwardly creeping price of the average bill wasn't mentioned.