You know you can get digital with an 8 dollar antenna right? I don't even have an HDTV...too poor for that right now. But, I bought one of those converter boxes hooked it up to my antenna and analog tv. Voila, crystal clear picture. Not HD but it's 1000 times better than what I was getting with my antenna before I bought the converter. So, you don't have to pay for digital tv, in fact you don't even have to buy a brand new TV to get the benefits of digital tv.