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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 5419252" data-attributes="member: 7533">Something else to consider...Unplug.We haven't had our television hooked up to a satellite dish, cable or antenna for close to twelve years.  Honestly, we don't miss it.  We still have a Blu-ray player and a VCR, and have instead been collecting a wall full of video library ever since.We still watch television shows, but we're a little pickier about what we watch.  We simply wait patiently for our favorite shows to come out on DVD, and purchase them by the season.  We can watch them when we like, as often as we like, and without commercials.  It also has the advantage of giving us complete control over what, when and how much our kids are watching (We've never had to sit through Teletubbies, Barney or Spongebob -- Yay for us!).And as Croesus mentioned, we've got an extensive public library system form which we can borrow oodles of things for free...  Often, we'll try out a few episodes of a television show from the library for free, and then later decide to buy the entire series, if we like it enough.</blockquote>