do you use paid tv or over the air tv?

personally in Estonia you've gotta pay for tv mostly

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Plex + HDHR = beautiful.
For everything else I just sail some seas.
Helps that I'm a lifetime plex member and have been for a long time now.

Where I live, you get very little over air TV. In fact, I'm not sure there's anything now.
We don't pay for TV, but I have a little yo-ho-ho station, check out DVDs from the library, stream, or occasionally watch one of those free Pluto channels if I just want background noise

I use neither.
- In the United States here and I haven't had non-streaming television since I moved out of my parent's house.
  Toyed with things like Sling and YouTube TV once, but they just aren't worth it.
  
  If I watch any shows or movies it is from a selfhosted Jellyfin server. No need for any subscriptions or cable TV.

Neither at the moment, but cable is actually getting more appealing giving the constant splintering of streaming services.

I had an antenna set up to see what I could get, and I can pick up affiliates from all the major networks, which is nice.
But it's so full of commercials I can't stand watching anything other than PBS so I took it down.
- Yeah you really need something to record the TV then watch it later skipping the commercials in order for it to be useful.

I use over-the-air supplemented by a few streaming services. After years of cable, it was startling how much better the picture and sound are with OTA. It used to be that cable was better quality, but they have compressed it down to the point where it is just barely acceptable.

I pay for cable, even pay extra for HBOs and 24/7 porn channel, tho this latter costs me $0.0028 per month so why not (it's bad).
- what cable package do you have?
  
  well, I'm in Hungary and have Digi TV subscription (it's a Romanian carrier that's in service in my country as well)
  around 4 years ago when I contracted with them it was super cheap. since then it's almost 3 times more expensive. it's a usual thing here that long-time subscribers pay more and more just for fun I guess?

I have an OTA antenna but it's really just there in case we need news and the internet is out. In the same we that there's a crank radio in my emergency supplies. Everything else is Roku.

My TV is used for F1 (via now TV - internet stream) and occasionaly YouTube and occasionaly video/games of my laptop.
If I did watch TV content it would likely be on iPlayer etc as I would never know when to watch things live

USA here. Where I live if you want to watch anything you have to pay for it or ride the high seas. OTA doesn’t work in rural communities, this signal is too weak from the big cities, and even in the city OTA can be questionable based on location.
- Never had problems with OTA signal in my area. I did have a antenna on the roof in all of my locations so that might have helped.
  
  Yea, see I live in an apartment, so I am stuck using those indoor antennas

In Sweden we have to pay for TV through taxes. And then they use the money to make propaganda programs paid by the tax payers. Works well for keeping the population docile.

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