Not sure I agree. What’s the point of paying a couple of grand for a decent tv and then having to pay for and have the inconvenience of having more gadgets to plug in to it to get full functionality. If anything the operating systems in tvs are actually getting better and more capable of doing even more?
Hope I'm not quoting out of context Mo.
I'd very much agree with this. We've had a "smart" TV for five years. It's an LG something or other. Nice picture, reasonable sound and with a sound bar connected this becomes very acceptable.
Smart though? I'd argue there is no such as a "smart" TV. My laptop and associated software is clever, it helps me do stuff I couldn't have dreamed of years ago. That's extraordinary.
Smart TV? Well the internet service is utter rubbish, slow and pointless. It still needs a remote control to make it do the most basic things such as volume control. Responsive volume control would be a brilliant innovation. Many of the installed apps no longer work, cannot be updated and new ones can't be added. The HDMI ports are positioned in such away as both Firestick and Chrome stick out of the side and have to be supported by judicious application of black electrical tape. Very smart design on that one folks.
It has eight different devices plugged in to it to make it work. Outstandingly clever!!
There is no such thing as a smart TV. We have a flat screen in the corner which receives and converts signals from a variety of sources and devices in to sound and pictures. Yes that is clever and is what John Logie Baird gave us 95 years ago.
Using my phone I can choose something I fancy watching from the web. Press a little icon on my phone screen and lo and behold it appears on my TV. Now that is both clever and smart.
I don't care provided my TV gives a reliable picture and sound but until the TV provides the services and abilities, in terms of receiving media, our phones, laptops and tablets can already offer it can hardly be considered smart.
I carry all my music on a stick and push it in to a USB port in my five-year old car. Bingo, it's all available. Hands free. That's clever. No one suggests I have a smart car or smart radio in it.
I'm afraid a "smart" TV is nothing more than marketing guff.
