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As if by fate, I was just discussing last night with a fellow blogger about the reality of Internet entertainment reducing Cable TV providers like Comcast to mere Internet Service Providers who pave the wires for their replacements. Sezmi might be able to do it by providing over-the-air broadcasts, cable channels like Animal Planet and Discovery Channel, and providing “thousands” of HD and standard on demand videos.

That interface is looking good and frankly, we can reluctantly thank Microsoft’s ahead-of-its-time Windows Media for the concept of big, clear icon surfing in such environments. But we don’t have to.

Cable’s benefits and growth have been vertical rather than increasingly wide ranging. Growing more expansive does not mean pumping up the number of self-promos on SyFy channel, nor does it mean adding a hundred 2-minutes HD videos to what was once a revolutionary On Demand service.

That cable companies like Comcast are just making their older ideas deeper rather than coming up with new ideas to encroach on our daily lives is frustrating cable consumers. Forget the pricing structures and 6-month indroductory specials that leapfrog to three times those amounts at month seven – now that services on the Internet are providing on demand entertainment that consumers want to see when they want to see it, cable is in trouble.

Hulu made a brilliant and sexy jump to laptops, desktop PC’s, Mac Mini’s and HDTV’s with highspeed internet devices attached when they offered a super-slick desktop application. You need only left/right/up/down and [Enter] navigation buttons to intuitively find new shows, favorite shows and shows you missed last night in very clear quality once you create an account. This ruffled network feathers though they slowly began to play ball.

So as I was chatting it up last night about the insane billing and lack of On Demand reruns on Cable that I get with Hulu, I pretended to advocate in favor of cable. Would Internet TV kill Cable channels like Animal Planet, Speed and National Geographic? And along came this article today announcing an Internet TV service with a good, old-school “powerful antenna in a box that looks like a loudspeaker.”

This preserves the live local news, and, thankfully, Cable channels like Animal Planet, Bravo, Cartoon Network, CNN, Comedy Central, Discovery, MSNBC, MTV, Nickelodeon, Oxygen, SyFy, TBS, TCM, TLC, TNT, VH1 all listed on the Sezmi website And here’s how you might be able to bring Sezmi to your hood to give it a try…

There’s a sign up page for Applying to participate in Sezmi’s exclusive Pilot Program offered currently (as of October) in Los Angeles (roll eyes with envy here) but promise that more areas will be included soon. Think of it as a petition and get going!