For years, this uber-consumer of TV programming confidently calls herself an early adopter in all technologies that allow her to watch it whenever and wherever she wants. Enter the ground-breaking launch of Hulu in March 2008. Our co-dependent relationships with TiVo, its Season Pass and cable provider were suddenly on the skids. After some effort that questioned our technological prowess, we temporarily disconnected cable and sought our TV fix through a MacBook Pro connected to our HDTV to enormous success.

Just as TV Everywhere hits the one-year mark, premium cable networks including HBO and Showtime saw their theatrical strategies take a small but powerful hit following yesterday’s announcement from Netflix. In a deal similar to those cut between film studios and premium cable providers, Netflix has partnered with Relativity Media for a 5-plus year agreement giving them a streaming video window that was once exclusive premium cable networks – “major theatrically released films owned by Relativity will be licensed directly and exclusively to Netflix for streaming to its subscribers during the pay TV window.