I'm a fan of the Netflix on demand service, but a stand alone set top box would be great (http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0231921120080103).
Netflix on Wednesday said it was developing a set-top box with LG Electronics to let subscribers watch movies streamed directly from the Web to their TVs.

How nice would it be to have Independents hitch onto this train? The one thing I like about streaming from the Internet is the democratization of media.

We'll see how Neflix attacks this but I'm for having multiple good ways of consuming media.

http://dvinfo.net/conf/showthread.php?t=111478