I've been Internet-only because the apartment I live in had never had a full-time occupant before me. My landlord had never needed to equip the place with a cable hookup. Besides that, he would've had to pay the local CLEC -- the rural monopoly Internet/cable provider -- to lay the cable from the road, 150 feet or so, and he's rich, so he's cheap.
With that, I never bought a TV, so I wore out about five of those old mini-DVD players. Then about five or so years ago, I happened by accident across two of my favorite movies full-length on YouTube, Damage and The Count of Monte Cristo (Caviezel version), in sequential 10-minute clips I could just start and let play just like I had a real TV. This was before YT got so uber-efficient at copyright enforcement. Once I started getting the little red frown all the time, I heard about a couple or three different places on the 'Net to try and I found all of Gilmore Girls and Babylon 5. I was ecstatic.
I even bought an Gyration air mouse that I can use to click my next show while lying down.