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You don't even need a TV to take advantage of this if you have a computer.

You can buy a tv tuner card that will connect to your laptop and allow you to plug in an antenna to watch TV.

Something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Hauppauge-1191-WinTV-HVR-955Q-Tuner-No...

I do this with Windows 7's included Media Center as a PVR. I was surprised when checking out popular "media center" software that most of it seems to concentrate on playback of videos and not support being a PVR.

Don't upgrade to 10. They killed WMC...

I did that as well, I had two tuners plus an external HDTV adapter with an IR blaster. I would make my own cable channel line-up pretending I had cable and satellite. The nicest aspect was that the xbox360 on the other TV could also stream the content from the media PC and it did not require a gold subscription.

As a heads up, Linux users should check and make sure tuner they buy has a Linux driver. I once got really excited when I saw a really good deal on a tuner, only to find out it had no Linux driver. I had to cancel my order.

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