Do I need the coaxial cable?

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Hi - just wondering, how important is the coaxial/aerial cable still, or is broadband enough to watch most/all TV these days?
I am planning to move things around in my flat and it would greatly help if the TV didn't need to be connected to the aerial cable. Am I going to miss out on much TV? Most things these days seem to be available via streaming services.
I hardly watch any TV myself other than iPlayer/Netflix. But I'm also thinking of future buyers if I was to sell the flat. Could not having a TV cable be an issue?
Maybe a dumb question, but I'm rather naive technologically!
I am planning to move things around in my flat and it would greatly help if the TV didn't need to be connected to the aerial cable. Am I going to miss out on much TV? Most things these days seem to be available via streaming services.
I hardly watch any TV myself other than iPlayer/Netflix. But I'm also thinking of future buyers if I was to sell the flat. Could not having a TV cable be an issue?
Maybe a dumb question, but I'm rather naive technologically!
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So thats a good moneysaver for you.
Also remember the issues you can run into when changing ISP, and if you're on a limited data plan or your BB speed isn't high enough to say allow TV viewing and computer related stuff.
If you've got some DVD's etc it's not so big an issue, but even the most reliable ISP will have downtime either due to planned work, or something unplanned (network upgrade gone wrong, flooding knocking out a junction box, some wally in a Digger cutting through the cabling several times in the space of a week*).
I'm on cable and normally it's 100% reliable for months/years at a time, but when there is an issue it can take a day+ to sort it, and ADSL tends to be far worse in terms of arguing about if it's the ISP or openreach and getting someone out to look for a fault that might be anywhere along the route a 50 year old copper pair has taken (and might disappear for a while when the sun dries out rain/damp that's got into a junction box).
Short answer, keep the TV arial if you watch TV and want something that is just going to work if just as a back up
*They did that round here for some BT cables twice in about a month, and a friend lives in an area where whilst they were building a new estate they cut through the main power cable for half the town, three times in a week resulting in street cabs and the exchange losing power that affected even the parts of town that still had power (from what he said it sounded like they didn't check the route of the cable properly/trace it after the first cut, nor the second).