All I want is to replicate the experience I can currently get from uTorrent. ie - high res content downloaded [not streamed and thus vulnerable to buffering] t

All I want is to replicate the experience I can currently get from uTorrent. ie - high res content downloaded [not streamed and thus vulnerable to buffering] to watch at my leisure around the time of initial cable viewing. The price for doing this legally should probably be similar per episode to what I pay for a song on iTunes. I'm happy to pay for a netflix sub, but it doesn't do what I want. I hate buying boxed sets (though I sometimes do) because playing DvDs on my PC is worse than having a quality .avi file neatly filed and quickly accessed. In fact (I've said this here before) my ideal world is where Steam holds all of my purchased series and I can manage it all from there. It remembers stuff I no longer want clogging up my HD to be re-downloaded, and downloads the latest episodes of stuff I've bought automatically. What I want will never happen.