I know you said "without whore companies" but I really like my xbox 360 for this, even though Microsoft is one of the skankiest whore companies. I haven't really checked out the xbox 360 video market place, but I have used my xbox 360 for netflix streaming and its pretty slick. Another thing the xbox 360 has going for it is you can download 720p videos with bittorrent or whatever on your computer and stream it to your xbox. I run tversity on my main desktop at home for this.
There's also AppleTV, though Apple is right up there with Microsoft. Or a Roku Player that can stream from Amazon and Netflix.
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