The revenge of Netflix on high-priced content providers

The all-time greatest putdown of television occurred in the 1970s on the Mary Tyler Moore Show when Mary Richards proudly informed a relative that she worked in television. Said relative's retort: "Oh, I don't watch television. We have a fireplace."
     Now, in 2011, you can have a big screen fireplace, loaded with surprisingly noisy wood, free with a streaming Netflix subscription. Our program didn't have a "Christmas holiday favorites" soundtrack, just an aggressively crackling fire. (AKSARBENT recommends that you watch this on a plasma rather than an LCD/LED-LCD television, as the former generates more heat. Related aside: Beware outdoor LED Christmas lights. They don't get warm enough to melt the snow that occasionally covers them.)