A year ago my wife and I cut the cord. We gave up cable and switched to a media PC with Hulu and Streaming Netflix as our primary sources. It's been a great change for us (particularly with Hulu+), but I do think Google TV is pretty hopelessly misguided.

It seems like a lot of folks are convinced there is a lot of great TV out there on the Internet and it's just a matter of finding it. That doesn't really seem to be true to me. Most quality content is rather short. Mr Deity and the like aren't really "curl up on the couch" TV. I don't want to surf, I want to be passively entertained. That means in half-hour chunks with high production values. You know, like the Networks tend to create.

For that you seem to have three real options:

1. Hulu 2. Netflix 3. Torrents

I'm not really into the hassle and dubious legal status of #3... but past that what's the point? Until there are folks truly producing great content, discoverability really isn't the issue is it? Yet isn't that what Google is trying to solve here? I just don't really get it.