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Originally Posted by **********
NEVER buy a Smart TV, just because it's "smart". It's not quite a computer, it's not running a popular OS, and everything is custom written for it meaning little support and low chance of upgrades and add-ons in the future.
Smart people buy TV's then rely on external boxes (Computers / media centres, Xboz360, AppleTV, Sony Playstation etc) to make the TV smart. There is much more support for these units because there are more units sold.
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My experience with *Smart* TV's / bluray etc is that the access it provides to your network is like another AUX input. ie I can still use any external device to *make the TV smart* and at the same time can bypass all that and go directly to whatever.
Also the possibility of streaming video / music / images from my laptop/desktop is there too.
I suspect you have not used a Smart TV.
Yes they leave a hell of a lot to be desired when it comes to user input - however I do still use these for watching youtube videos on the big screen.
There are good and bad, your idea on how it works is way off base.