My experience was almost exactly that in the OP.<p>I bought my first TV used off craigslist 6 months ago (I&#x27;m 30, lived past 12 years w&#x2F;o a television), mainly intending to use it as a big monitor to watch movies&#x2F;tv shows from my laptop via HDMI.<p>I started to get into local sports, but wasn&#x27;t willing to pay for cable. I suffered through a few poor quality (aka &quot;was that a touchdown or interception?&quot;) internet streams of the games.<p>Then one day I recalled that had a TV, not just a big monitor. $15 dollars later I had an antennae and was getting the local football games over-the-air in great HD.