Well we have an antennae, and that is fine with us. No cable, used netflix for a short time (a gift certificate). It was nice, but we did not like the pressure of feeling like we needed to watch it to get our moneys worth.......ha.And we found that the tv makes us lazy. When we go to relatives and they have cable, that is all we do. Then when we get back, we say naw........Prefer to work in the yard with hubby, and sew.