Be of good cheer. "Rome" will no doubt be out on DVD one of these days. BTW, we gave up on cable long ago and got a dish. Cheaper than cable, considering what you get, and better quality sound and picture.
Cable is not available in our area, in fact nothing comes in even with a TV antenna. Radio reception is also almost nonexistent and regardless of what Rush says, there are areas of the US that do not carry his radio broadcast that we are able to access. So my husband gave me a 24/7 for my birthday and we went into debt to buy DirecWAY. We have a DirecTV dish and a DirecWAY satellite LAN as dial up's (Earthlink) are so very, very slow (19000, 24000, and the really big one 36000).