“This sucks. I still have rabbit ears in my kitchen.”
Depending on how far you are from a transmitter, you may be able to pick up digital (and high definition programming) with those rabbit ears. I had a pair of amplified rabbit ears hooked up to a HD receiver feeding my HDTV, and I got an excellent picture on several HD channels (but can’t anymore since I’ve moved further out).
BTW, over the air high def signals are usually better quality than cable due to the fact the cable channels feature so much compression to squeeze in as many channels as possible.
Analog TVs will be obsolete, not aluminum or galvanized wire.