Most people do both in the US, don't they? Paying for cable and still getting ads. When they brought in one of the early cable TV systems in Australia, I think

Most people do both in the US, don't they? Paying for cable and still getting ads. When they brought in one of the early cable TV systems in Australia, I think a selling point was that they had very few commercials. That didn't last long, and these days it feels like they have more than free-to-air... So I don't bother - free-to-air and the internet is enough.