Do yourself a favor and just find a quiet, small, used mini-tower computer w/ HDMI output and a Blue-ray capable DVD... Mine is an Acer from the Vista era... Buy a wireless nic for it (if you have to), or wired, to connect to your router to get to the internet, and a wireless keyboard... If you have a monster big-screen, you might have to upgrade the vid too (maybe a 2g card), though mine is a 4 footer, and works fine off the stock video... You are all set. You can still get to netflix, Amazon, etc... but anything you want is already freely available on the net.
I am about 4 months free of the cable now, and I will never go back. My outfit cost less than 100 bucks, saves me 70 bucks a month, and requires *no* subscription beyond the internet itself.
Quality is excellent, and normally streaming signal is too (on hi-speed cable)- If the stream gets slow, just start whatever you are watching, pause it, and walk away for 10 minutes to let it load up a ways... Same with movies... But generally, that isn't very necessary. The only thing that sucks is outage - Used to be that if the internet went down I could watch the tube, or visa-versa. Now, if it goes down I have nothing... So I am building a movie library to resolve that problem.
Thanks for the info. I will check into this as well.