Trade cable for PlayOn?

Darren Gladstone, PC World, posted an interesting article about PlayOn from MediaMall Technologies. PlayOn allows users to use a game console or networked television to access shows from places like YouTube, Hulu, etc., to watch on their TV. The software pulls in the media streams and sends them directly over your home network to you device, even converting the format on the fly to make sure devices can play them.

This sounds pretty fantastic, as someone who has a furious love/hate relationship with Comcast (I love TV, but hate everything about my cable bill, service and did I mention the huge bill?). So how does it measure up? According to Darren the quality is no 1080p, but looks good enough considering the money savings. No fancy interface, just simple folder navigation. Consistent software updates to fix quarks from MediaMall. Not the smoothest performance overall. But Darren seems hopeful that with some work, PlayOn can evolve into a great experience for people looking for an alternate way to view television programming.

-posted by Stephanie