Personal preference prevails
This is critical. Though, even given that, the decision is not always as simple as you seem to see it. You put some stock in "your pace of delivery" but your chosen method doesn't necessarily conform to any specific pace of delivery (i.e., for many people, the methods you use may have too slow of a pace of delivery). However, more importantly, cable + TiVo results in the broadest range of paces of delivery, from the fastest available to slow as you'd like. That's not to say that you're making the wrong choice for yourself - rather, only that there are considerations that you perhaps haven't investigated that actually would serve your needs better, assuming you cared about having your needs served better (which, itself, is not necessary - sometimes good enough is good enough - we could probably make an additional 0.05% on our emergency fund by switching our account to Ally Bank right now, but we're not going to do that because we want to expend our efforts on other things right now that perhaps have more importance to us).
One thing you said caught my attention though... you said, "I have learned over the past 20 years how to make my time important to me." I have learned to make my time
less important to me. Making my time more important to me sounds like it would make life more stressful. I work a bit to try to adjust my demeanor so that delays, waiting and other disruptions to my time don't upset me. Again, "personal preference prevails."