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Well the 40" Samsung LCD in the living room receives cable and clear QAM OTA channels (as we have no cable box). In my bedroom I have a cable feed also for the cable channels, but because my converter box neither has analog passthrough nor clear QAM capabilities (even though the menus infer it does), I use OTA to receive higher quality versions of the channels. For example, on analog cable, football games are in 4:3, but on the digital converter box they are 16:9. Sure, it's a little smaller, but I get to see more of the football field and not miss a play.
I'm definitely not seeing HD on this old set though, it's just the 16:9 I'm seeing, and I prefer that. But there are some shows, like the Simpsons, where on cable it's in 16:9 (go figure, opposite of the football game), and I would prefer it to be 4:3, because it's a cartoon, there's nothing on the sides I'm going to usually care about.
I was thinking about using an outdoor antenna, but I got into a fight with my home owners association about using one, and I even showed them the FCC requirement that I have a right too, and they said that I signed the contract, and have no right. That's just a nightmare I don't want to deal with, so indoor antenna is what I'm going to need.
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