TV w/o cable = HD over air = very beautiful picture - will miss

[2Design]

Family channel, lifetime, travel channel (not so much w/o samantha), comedy central and a few others. But saving $50 a month is great

I have an antenna attached to one of these new flat screen tv's. My tv will be paid for in 7 months of no cable - just going to use the library AND I love going to the movies at AMC theatres for their AM cinema. I have their movie watcher card and get free soda and popcorn after about 10 times. It is $5 to go before noon.

I will have to find the rest online or watch it a week later. It is worth it for that cost.

Here is a site I found on doing this today as I was trying to setup my tv for antenna instead of cable and figuring how to scan and realizing I need and antenna which I had bought at a yard sale for about $3 but it is $25 new and has a power booster

I get about 35 channels, three pbs, and some other - tvguide online shows the shows and channel numbers

Not sure if I will go to netflix or this box roko player (I would have to go up one level on the cable which is about $15 dollars more a month to have the right speed)

http://www.cancelcable.com/

[Catshrink]

1. I did the same earlier this week.

I was surprised at how many channels I could receive. I bought a converter box from my neighbor for $10 and used an old antenna.

The cable promotion I had ended and the cost would increase $12 over all for the bundle. I decided to ditch the landline and cable so my new bill should be around $38 for just internet. This will take the sting out of a looming paycut.

[2Design]

3. yes I had a competitive special of $69 and after taxes was 76

and it was going up to 79 and I thought, my income has gone down, this is crazy. Right now I have the Road Runner lite from Brighthouse - it might be too slow for some things. My uploads for flickr have been only 56k - I think I need to call them

[EFerrari]

2. I did without for about that amount of time

and figured out that the CSPAN archives alone would keep me busy.

[alfredo]

4. I made my own antenna. I first made a four bay bow tie, but now I use a folded

dipole I made out of telephone wire (station wire), a bamboo pole, ductape, and a Bulan.

I get 12 to 15 stations in my area. I'm in a basement, so I'd expect better reception if I had it upstairs.

[marybourg]

8. Balun. nt.

[Codeine]

5. The Roku is worth it.

It's especially great for watching television shows you didn't know about or missed, and for foreign films.

[elocs]

9. I use Roku with Netflix and it is great watching on my 50" plasma.

I have so much to watch now with the thousands of movies, documentaries, and tv series (both recent and old) that I always have plenty to watch. I also ran lines from my Roku box to the bedroom so I can watch there also. I've often used my Roku to rent recent movies from Amazon and I've streamed them in HD and they look very good. I'm thinking about watching Avatar tonight through Amazon.

I gave up cable and satellite years ago and I also enjoy high def using an antenna and getting 12 channels where I used to only get 4 before.

[ddeclue]

6. Yeah I did this while I was unemployed this winter but it still sucks..

network TV has so very little worth watching that I found myself watching "RTV" - Retro TV network that broadcasts on some of the alternate digital channels with shows like Adam 12, Emergency, and Dragnet. Better than Reality TV crap on today.

I was sooo glad to get back to having even basic DirecTV.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. I'm now addicted to UNC-TV Explorer Channel...

and still get my L&O:SVU and CSI fixes via network, while saving about $80/month. Whenever I make donations to Goodwill, I pop in to check out the latest .99 DVDs and VHSs (yes, I still have one of those). Netflix for $9/month and I can watch stuff instantly on my computer.

I'm not sure if I'll ever go back to cable -- there's too much crap (I do miss History International, however) and I'm saving about $960/year. Would rather put it toward travel...

[L0oniX]

10. Sony PS3 with Netflix on slow 1.5 Mb cable works fine.