I live outside a major city on the east coast and receive about 40 over the air channels in uncompressed HDTV from my homemade antenna. I do not watch much tv because the content is not very good and I can not stand all the commercials. Even PBS has become an endless stream of infomercials and beg-a-thons. I do pay about $60. month for very high speed internet and there is more than enough varied content to watch anytime I want. I cut the cable 20 years ago and never looked back.