Three Days Ago:
Just discovered (and bought) a Roku box. For a one-time cost of about $80 (and an Internet connection) you have access to lots of FREE web feeds such as the old Andy Griffith and I Love Lucy; and for $8 per month you have access to current stuff like Glee and House.
Today:
First full night of Roku last night. There will be a definite settling in period, but it looks as if this might work. The one drawback is that you have to manually add channels and program titles (or actors) you want to Hulu Plus, but this is a one-time process. It pulls your NetFlix requests and populates that channel automatically. Watched for 4 hours, and the quality is far superior to the VGA output from a dedicated laptop computer, which is what we were using.