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Why bother with smart TV's?

I get why Samsung etc. want to sell us all smart TV's as that gives them lots of stuff to market. As a consumer however it doesn't give me very much. New versions of TV's come out every year and "app" support for many models is patchy. Sometimes apps for a particular service never arrive and often after a couple of years apps are dropped. Plugging in an Amazon firestick gives much better functionality. It's also dirt cheap so should you need to upgrade to a better one after a few years it's not a problem.

As I watch all my actual TV through a PVR (a YouView box in my case) I don't have any need for the TV tuner part of the TV either. In fact all I want is a nice flat high resolution 65 inch monitor, with or without speakers, that can be fixed to the wall with a couple of HDMI connections hidden behind it. Of course that's not an appealing product to Samsung as their marketing machine needs "features".

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