Winston Groom looked down at the rectangle she had placed in his hand. The Pinnacle TV for Mac HD Stick, easily able to turn a Mac into a cable ready, antenna friendly tv.

Just moments ago, he had heard the soothing click as he had put his iPhone upon the white plastic table. On the wall before him, the familiar warm glow of his iTinerary. His day was set, full of watching wonderful legally purchased tv shows. He loved the feeling that he could see them again and again and that the artists all received just compensation for their work. And yet, that sad feeling in his heart. As a child, in the days when shows came in real time, Winston Groom loved the bonds of community he felt the next day at school, when he and his friends would talk about what they had seen. Until this moment, Winston Groom had thought that feeling gone.

That was when there had been a knock at the window. Julia.

“Hush, Winston!” she breathed through the cracked glass. “I bring you freedom!”

And Winston Groom looked down at the rectangle she had placed in his hand. The Pinnacle TV for Mac HD Stick. He could watch NTSC or PAL. He could handle S-Video or an RCA Stereo jack. He no longer needed to wait for a parent corporation to decide to release an entire season to the iTunes store. Gone were the weeks of hiding from spoilers on the iNternet, gone was the feeling that trends were passing him by.

Winston smashed the window glass and took Julia into his arms, laughing, as they settled to watch his favorite show the night it aired. He loved Big Brother.

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