Warren,
I dumped the cable TV about 8 years ago because of monthly increases in rates to cover more and more dam pay for view channels and went to the satellite system. Costs less and I get over 500 channels. Of course I don't even begin to watch many of them, just the ones that I like. I think they even have the adult channels listed way up in the 900 range or somewhere like that. The cable company here won't sell their cable Internet connection unless you buy the TV package too. But the people around me that are on cable and have the Internet with them seem to have more problems and to me it seems slower and I sure don't have the fastest DSL there is. But up here they have things everywhere else years before we get it.
As for rabbit ears, they never worked around here. We have Jack rabbits and their ears just don't work well as receivers.
Ron