Soon there will be an alternative to cable and satellite TV with a new company called Nuclius IPTV. Don’t confuse this with free IPTV. It’s the real deal designed to replace the cable companies. Stream HD programming directly to your TV. Choose a price plan or buy channels a la carte. Upscale internet TV channels like You Tube to look better on your TV. Browse the web on your TV. No wiring or cables. In the future it will work similar to a slingbox and you can watch your DVR content from your cell or laptop. You can even get it with a Blu-Ray player. No contracts or credit checks. This will completely change the industry…similar to what the cell phone did to the home phone or what Netflix did to the video stores. Website is http://www.nucliusiptv.net/

The link that Todd D put up about Dish is old, the story is from late 2009. I would assume that most of what they have there has changed by now.
As for Wild Blue If you do any streaming at all you will run into their caps. I know Hughs has caps too, If you go over, the cut your speed back. Not that they’re all that fast to begin with.
  Another option, depending on where you are is to look into Wimax. and other forms wireless broadband. Ido know that it is being rolled out, although the areas that are actually getting it are hit and miss.. Its worth looking into. Along with 3 & 4G options.

14 Months ago we converted to 100% Internet TV. I have saved nearly $4000 in Cable bills and my wife and I watch 16 network television programs in the evenings after our four kids go to bed. It is the coolest thing I ever did, the equipment is getting a little blah and I need to upgrade. I found a new product called WhiteHatt (http://www.whitehatt.com) that claims to do everything with a remote and all kinds of things coming in the Fall. I am keeping an eye on that one, Google TV and one of the others.

The best part I have to say is, my wife and I have 11 years married, 14 together. We have never had the time to have a proper relationship, sex life, what have you. I will just say, it didn’t save our marriage because we are in love, but the Internet TV freedom and content has given us some renewed vigor and we both walk around smiling most days and have since we started playing with this. More time, more happiness, less time wasted…pause everything, watch everything. Its got my endorsement, even if it never catches on.

This is the year I hope to cut the cable cord.. I bought an ASROCK nettop computer (which comes with a Media Center remote control), and attached it to my 60” Pioneer Flat screen panel TV. I am mainly using the Zinc TV software ( http://zinc.tv/) to agrgregate and organize the web streaming sites I watch. This free download software does a great job orgarnizing web stream from Hulu, ABC, FOX, CNN, etc., and you can customize to your preferrence. With my ASROCK Nettop which is loaded with Windows 7, I can also use Windows Media Center stream media, but I kind of link the Zinc TV software better because it has more access to more sites..

The only thing holding me back from cutting the cord at this time is my mother-in-law’s comfort level with using the PC; but this I hope with time this will change with more training, She actually thinks she has more access to media from the internet than the cabe company.

hope this might help us to understand more about the satellite system.
Todd D.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/calebwickman/todddiroberto/prweb2552644.htm