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Is there actually any practical use for having a tuner built in still? I haven't plugged a coax into one of those in like 15 years, it's always to a set-top box first and then hdmi from that to the tv, and the only reason we have cable at all is because of my dad.
Antennae’s still work great. Picture is better with no or little compression compared to cable. Great for live sports.
Digital OTA is useful if you don't want to pay for cable but you want to watch local sports or the news something. If you are in a large metro area, you can get a great picture and a surprising variety of channels.
The set-top box can do OTA too.
If you don't have a set top box, i.e. no cable, no sattelite, then you would plug OTA directly into the TV and use the tuner there. I haven't used a set-top box in like 15 years. It's always been an HTPC, or an Intel Nuc or something like that.