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While the last 10-15 years have been a race to fill up your cable box’s TV guide with hundreds of channels — most of which you’ve never watched — the next 10-15 years will be a race to the bottom.

At least that’s one of the visions we keep hearing from people at the intersection of television and the Web, who think that Internet distribution is going to shake up your TV experience the way it’s already changed the way you get music and read news.

The idea: You’ll get about 20 linear channels from cable — a legacy broadcast network, a few big-brand cable networks like ESPN, maybe another live sports channel, some major lifestyle channels, and that’s about it. The rest will be handled via video-on-demand or streamed over the Internet.

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