If you have decent internet (like maybe 3-5mbs), you can cut the cable cord...
Aereo is available here which gets you all the Boston OTA stations with a "free" DVR function (no channel 9 though).
Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon prime have a lot of content.
A lot of 1st run cable content is available via web (just plug a notebook computer into your TV). Plus many current series are available on a pay per show/season basis from itunes and amazon.
Cable sports are the last frontier... You can buy packages for baseball, but they don't provide home games and there are about 100 rules for other games they don't carry (playoffs, 1:00 Sunday games, sunday night baseball). You can work around this if you're computer savvy.
Hopefully in a few more years, the cable/satellite companies will lose their grip and this will be easier to pull off.
That all said, DirecTV isn't terrible. It does get expensive if you need every premium channel under the sun though. The DirecTV HD satellites are fairly low on the sw horizon in NH. Dish's satellites are a little higher, so if you don't have a good SW exposure, they might be a better choice.
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