When will IP TV finally catch hold of the general public?

From YouTube, to world star hip hop. There are many media websites that we can navigate to and get our daily fix of video, be it clips from our favorite shows, or our favorite internet personalities...mines being Ray William Johnson and smosh on YouTube, as many of yours is also I'm sure. Some consumers who don't agree with rising cable prices have decided to ditch cable altogether, many resort to Netflix subscriptions, hulu, roku. There are many alternatives.

Well a while back rumors surfaced of Google building a fiber optics line. With the talents that Google have and the rumor of them building a fiber optics line...the inevitability of Google cable is becoming clear. But this isn't what we're here for, I'm speaking on IP (internet protocol) TV. We have the services that I've mentioned, but how are they brought to us? Lines of settop boxes I.E. apple TV, and Google TV. Roku has its own line of settop boxes. Now for awhile now I've been asking myself, why is it that consumers haven't caught on to these services? Well I guess its up front costs, the boxes begin around 99$ and the services have a subscription charge. But I kind of view it this way, Netflix is 8$ a month. Im not sure how much hulu is. But with hulu having access to current episodes of your favorite television series yo can truly substitute a cable subscription with that. I guess it all depends on how many other cable channels you frequent besides the normal affiliates the A&E's and USA's of the world.

Its only a matter of time before IP TV catches on, HBO go just hopped on the bandwagon, albeit you need a cable subscription for that, I feel its only a matter if time before they branch it into a full on demand service without needed cable subscriptions. The home gaming systems are the first wave of the settop boxes offering applications for the major services I.E Netflix and hulu. Some consumers I've spoken with recently have admitted they killed two birds with one stone buying a gaming system for the family and then purchasing a Netflix subscription. The idea is ingenious as it definitely is the current wave to ride. Soon we will all hop on the bandwagon, I know I have already.