Yeah, I know this feeling all too well. I never watched my TV. My poison was video games. The effect was exactly the same, though. I finally got rid of all of my video games, but I still have my TV. Now, it stands as a black monolith standing blankly in remembrance of a by-gone era.
It's a nice little LCD TV, so I intend to use it as a computer monitor once I get a place to set up my computer again.