In which I attempt to convince myself that I can survive without cable TV

My lovely rinky-dink cable company that has been charging me the same rate for the past 5 years (and yeah sometimes the internet went out, and they don't have support for that on weekends and Comedy Central spent weeks at a time being frozen, but they were cheap! and there was no contract!) is no longer providing cable for my apartment building.
This has led to large amounts of aggravation in that while the wiring for FioS is available (and the leasing office peeps claim you can get FioS), I cannot actually get FioS because of some permit whatchamawhoosit that Verizon does not have. So the website wouldn't let me order FioS but it would let me order DirectTV which it turns out I can't get either. Leaving me with the option of Cablevision. And I wouldn't be so averse to that were it not for the fact that they do not offer BBCAmerica, which means no Doctor Who (or Primeval, or Being Human, or Torchwood, or Law & Order: UK, or Merlin, or future shows that I don't even know about yet-- I was actually expecting Sherlock to air on BBCA, but score one for PBS).
So (a needle pulling thread) since the cost of their cable TV is the same as the cost of both TV and internet with the old company, and they don't seem to offer a "Double Play" only the stupid "Triple Play" (which is why I went with Verizon because I don't want or need a gorram landline), I started thinking about how I'd do without cable.
I mean, supposing I can get reception with one of the digital converter thingies, that takes care of the non-cable networks. And then lots of shows are available online (I will, of course, still be getting internets-- I'm crazy, but I'm not that crazy), and I can live without watching TeenNick silliness, and Comedy Central was frozen half the time anyway, so I couldn't watch The Daily Show/Colbert Report anyway. Plus, I could use the money I save not paying for cable TV to buy Doctor Who on DVD, and I have plenty of DVDs that I never watch and so could watch (Farscape rewatch?)-- particularly on SyFy Saturdays when I'm missing my crappy movies. But I could watch good movies! Or decent ones! I have a whole bunch of movies on DVDs that I got from SwapTree...

I might as well see how I do for a few months, right? And then I can reassess my dire need for giant reptile hybrids and mutant rodents and lobsters from outer space.