Life "Without" Television

My household has always had hundreds, if not thousands, of channels to choose from, routed to our ump-teen televisions throughout the house via coaxial cabling, delivered to the house either from a "cable company" or from a "satellite television provider."  After moving to California, we decided to go the "techie route" and watch all of "our shows" from hulu, Boxee, or other Internet sites.  With good old coax, we had thousands of channels and nothing to watch.  I thanked the stars when DVR came to the boxes!  Now I could watch the programs I wanted when I was able, not when the networks play them.  However, it was costing a hundred or better a month for this luxury.  Could we really get by (or away) with "free TV?"

Boxee was awesome for a minute.  There is an app in the Android Market to control the Boxee desktop software from your phone, so that was neat.  Shows played just fine there, and there was plenty of content.  Then, something happened.  Shows started not playing.  Horrid lagging if one did play.  Next, shows started disappearing.  Let's try hulu. Hulu is pretty good.  The desktop app is adequate (wish I had an Android app to control it), and there are a lot of shows on there.  I subscribed to huluPLUS so we could get to all of the extra content there.  Now we have access to tons of movies, previous episodes of shows, whole seasons even, right there with huluPLUS.  Since Blockbuster charges extra for streaming, let's try out NetFlix!  We love it.

Now, for less than 23 bucks a month, we can watch tons of nothing again (and take it all with us on the road)!