Well, like I said, I have two hardcore tinkerer friends who would disagree with your use of “easy”.

But that isn’t the question. The question is if it’s time well spent. There’s plenty of other projects that could be done that aren’t already served by a mature, reasonably priced commercial product.

And if you like a show and want a copy, just copy the DVD releases. Heck, there’s some shows (Dexter, for example) that I wait for the DVDs to even watch because I’m not paying for Showtime for one show. And then I copy the discs for freinds to pass around (they provide the blanks).

If your a Netflix subscriber, they have the awesome ‘Watch Now’ feature. You just open a browser, pick the show you want, and it starts playing. Full screen and all.

I bought one of those little Roku boxes for that. As for internet video, I can toss them on a DVD-R and play them on the XBox 360. And, actually, Netflix streaming is coming to the XBox this week, I think. Or I could run the Opera browser on the Wii.