It is still on its early stages, but they are showing signs of potentials most especially when they are getting fueled by venture capitalists of Silicon Valley. As the market are battling out as to who will own the future of cable television, here are the top-ten alternatives to it:

Sezmi

Sezmi is a subscription video service. It provides a DVR which records free over-the-air broadcasts, plus brings in video from Internet sources. For an additional fee, Sezmi makes available additional channels which are delivered via encrypted subchannels on existing channels such as KRCA.

Netflix

Netflix is a service offering online flat rate DVD and Blu-ray disc rental-by-mail and video streaming in the United States. It has amassed a collection of 100,000 titles and approximately 10 million subscribers.

Hulu

Hulu is a website offering commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows and movies from NBC, Fox, ABC, and many other networks and studios. Hulu videos are currently offered only to users in the United States. In order to ensure that no international users outside the US have access to the videos, Hulu blocks many anonymous proxies and virtual private networks.

Boxee

Boxee is a cross-platform freeware home theater PC (HTPC) program with a 10-foot user interface and social networking features designed for the living-room TV. Boxee is initially a fork of the free and open source XBMC media center software which Boxee uses as an application framework for its GUI and media player core platform, together with some custom and proprietary additions.

Slingbox

The Slingbox is a TV streaming device that enables users to remotely view their home’s cable, satellite, or personal video recorder (PVR) programming from an Internet-enabled computer with a broadband Internet connection.

If anyone of these interest you, you may Google the term and go to their respective websites.