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I've been seeing some commercials on these devices and services. I live in a rural area. Roughly between 40 and 70 miles from a large city with broadcast stations, and 5 miles outside the city limits of a small town which doesn't have a local cable company anyway. Up til now the only choices we have had were satellite and antenna. Satellite companies want too much for their services and are unreliable in bad weather. Antenna tv is free but since the switch from analog to digital the quality for rural viewing is vastly reduced. However, we CAN get dsl. Which is what made me pay attention to the first few commercials for google tv, apple tv and hulu. I used to be a lot more tech savvy years ago. I was a cad technician. Being a cad draftsman pretty much forces you to become tech savvy. But I've been retired for over 5 years. As far as technology goes that might as well be 5 decades. I wish someone would cut through all the salesman and techy hype and just let me know if any of these technologies can bring me the type of television service that city people get with att uverse and time warner. What system do I need, how much will it cost, how soon can I get it, and will it work once I've invested the time and money to install it?