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.