I love the idea of an overseas subscription. It seems like living in another country makes it depressingly difficult to buy content from your home region (DVD regions, game regions, iTunes/Amazon/etc. are regionalised as well).
May I ask what ISP and speed your parents have? I'm also abroad and while I could set a proxy up their house I'm worried that it would use up all the upload bandwidth. They are on DSL 800kbit/7Mbit up/down
They're in a suburban area on comcast cable. I think they consistently get like 8Mbit down (not sure of up).
Seeing as I am 6hrs ahead of them I'm not really concerned about bandwidth stealing of theirs ;)
Setup: Acer Aspire Revo - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225756 £300 + Loaded with Boxee + Proxied to an old laptop at my parents house in the US
Services I use: 1. NFL overseas Gamepass package (~$250 for whole season) - every game in full HD (yes literally just as good as watching it on cable HDTV...NO JOKE) 2. Hulu (via proxy) 3. Netflix (via proxy) 4. BBC (awesome programming) -> BBC iPlayer