I want to get rid of cable and its associated $60/month, I really do. And I'm so close...between a Netflix subscription, a TV tuner, and sites like Hulu or the network websites themselves, I can get almost anything I want to see for much cheaper....old shows, new shows, movies, etc. So why do I still have cable? Because there's no good way to get live sports or shows on other networks like Discovery (they have full episodes of just a few shows), Food Network, or the Science Channel, for example. Or if people are over and I want to flip over to It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, I couldn't do it until the following day if using Hulu instead of cable.

On top of all that, cable companies still hold a monopoly in a lot of areas and if you don't have a lot of options you're forced to go with them even if you just want internet, because when you start watching all kinds of stuff over the web (especially in HD) you need a pretty fast connection which is a lot easier to get with cable than with DSL. Consequently, the cable companies are aware that an ever-increasing number of people are going internet-only which is why there's now a lot of testing and rollout of bandwidth caps by all the companies with such stakes, limiting you to a certain amount of web traffic per month. For instance, Comcast now has a bandwidth cap of 250GB per month. When watching HD content, that adds up quick.

Sports do have some online coverage, as with CBS online during March Madness, and many games appear on the regular networks (CBS, NBC, FOX) where you could get them free with a TV tuner, but you still can't get many games this way.

However, Hulu hasn't been around all that long, so it's conceivable there's still a lot of room for growth of such services and that more will continue to pop-up. After all, the content providers also benefit by not dealing with a middleman in delivering content (and the associated advertising) to viewers. However, it's just as possible that they could suddenly decide Hulu wasn't profitable and pull the plug at a moment's notice, leaving all those that had come to rely on it out in the cold (and crawling back to cable). Hopefully we get more of the former rather than the latter, and sooner rather than later.