I too canceled DirecTV in favor of Hulu, but I prefer to not torrent the content and instead opt to watch it legally via Hulu or buy it from iTunes. If the show

I too canceled DirecTV in favor of Hulu, but I prefer to not torrent the content and instead opt to watch it legally via Hulu or buy it from iTunes. If the show is not on either of those sources, then I just don't watch it. (Or likely even know it exists.) The upside of this is that I watch far less TV because it has a real and immediate cost (especially if it's not on Hulu). The downside is that the endless buffering and stuttering I get on Hulu drives me crazy. I know that my ISP may be partly to blame, but that makes Hulu a lot less valuable to me than the downloadable iTunes option. There's been more than one evening were Hulu simply refused to work reliably and I ended up purchasing the commercial-free episodes on iTunes instead. Ironically, the iTunes downloads were so fast that I could watch the shows immediately as if they were streaming with the added bonus of actually owning the episode so I could watch it again later - perhaps long after Hulu removed it.