We gave up television, too, but not movies; as mentioned by a poster above, we watch movies in the evening when we don't have to get up at 0500 the next morning for work. Thus the telly is not the cynosure of all eyes all the time.

With the government shifting so much of its client services to web interface, I believe that it is downright unwise to unplug from the Internet completely. And I will never willingly go back to the encyclopaedia as a source of unexpectedly fascinating information.