Wired Magazine has a great article on The BitTorrent Effect and its creator Bram Cohen.  It's more about why it works so well and why it is scaring the pants off of content distributor and Hollywood types.  A very interesting read even if your like me and never downloaded or tried it.  One key piece that they discussed on page three of the article where some venture capitalists say what the next-generation broadcastor will look like.  In comes TiVo (you know this had a tie-in didn't you).

"...The real value of the so-called BitTorrent broadcaster would be in highlighting the good stuff, much as the collaborative filtering of Amazon and TiVo helps people pick good material. Eric Garland, CEO of the P2P analysis firm BigChampagne, says, "the real work isn't acquisition. It's good, reliable filtering. We'll have more video than we'll know what to do with. A next-gen broadcaster will say, 'Look, there are 2,500 shows out there, but here are the few that you're really going to like.' We'll be willing to pay someone to hold back the tide."

This is my whole point with TiVo and their fee...it does this NOW!  So what if you can get on-demand if you don't know it's there, can't find it, or that you would be interested in it at all.  Either way the article is a very good read and even discusses a topic that would be the equivalent of a video podcast.