Cable does not run out my road, so I have not had cable TV since I bought this house in 1998, and rarely miss it. I could have gotten the dish, but never saw it as nescessary. We get a very decent array of channels over the air. My kids on the other hand, feel horribly deprived, but they have adjusted and stream if there is something they really want. I do have wireless broadband, so anything we really want to see is out there on the net somewhere. SOA, Walking Dead, etc can be seen the next day. I plug the laptop into the tv and its allmost as good as cable. (Just takes longer to change the channel). The only show I want to see, that I have a hard time getting is Futurama.