If you want movies, do what I did. I purchased a portable DVD player with supersized battery-pack on it. I can leave it plugged into a "jumpstart battery" that is plugged into a solar-panel and get a couple of days worth of movie playing.
I don't watch TV, so, I snag my news in the evening via my
Asus EEE NetBook .. and again, it can be charged up via solar as well. I purchased a supersized battery-pack for it as well which gives me about 6hr worth of computer time and I have the original battery which holds about 2hr of computer time ..
For lighting in your house, using 12-volt LED lighting on solar-charged 12-volt RV-style batteries should give you a good week (week plus) of lights. If you use 12-volt RV incadescent lighting, expect 4 days on a full-charge (that is without topping up the batteries via solar-panels or wind-generator).
If you use the power-technology already in use in your TT (Travel Trailer) and just expand on the battery-banks (lets say that you use 2 RV 6volt batteries in series paralleled in a couple of sets) you would never run out of power.