who has an old TV with CRT tube? ya knaw, those big clunky box kind..

[OakLeaf]

Well ... for those balking at cable bills AND new TVs ... I'll just point out that over-the-air digital signals require WAY less power than analog. When we first moved into our house the former owners had installed a rotating antenna on the top of a 20' tower, and that's the only way we could pull in the network broadcasts. Eventually the antenna came down in a storm, and since we had DSS, we never bothered to replace it. Fast forward 10 or 15 years to our first digital HDTV. Just for grins DH stuck a coat hanger in the antenna port like you used to do back in the day. It brings in three channels ...

The only reason we have a big TV (which isn't even really "big" by today's standards) is because we have a ginormous living room. Any smaller and we'd need a telescope to watch it.

[Crankin]

We bought a 40? inch flat screen about 9-10 years ago, before we moved to this house, when my former community had just got cable. Before that we had the Dish for a few months and it sucked. We still have the 40 inch flat screen in our family room, and it looks small compared to others. We have a 27 inch flat screen in the kitchen and a smaller one in the bedroom. No cable anymore. We have a digital antenna and get all of the local stations in HD. We use Apple TV to watch some shows we used to watch on cable. I hate it... would rather spend for the cable, but we are not big TV watchers. We only have Comcast for our internet; some other weird company for our voip landline.
We dropped our 2 movie a month Netflix, too, because we barely made time to watch those. Occasionally, we get a movie from Hulu, or Apple, or some other source.
I am not much for electronic entertainment.