Is Your Cable Box About to Sprout a Netflix Channel?

Two major cable companies in Europe just installedNetflix apps on their TiVo branded set-top boxes. Should you expect your American cable box to follow suit?

In the video below, Fool contributor Anders Bylund gives you two big reasons that stateside cable providers won't follow the example set by Com Hem and Virgin Media any time soon. And even if they do, it won't move Netflix's needle very far.

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