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When the "smart" features age out to obsolescence, you can still hook up a chromecast/roku/etc., just like to a "dumb" TV.

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There are other issues with not recieving software updates. How many millions of people will end up with zombie TV's sitting in their living rooms?

Exactly. My TV was connected to my network for initial setup then promptly disconnected and used as a dumb display. I don't trust other people to keep devices on my network patched and up to date even during their supported lifetime.

The Roku is built into this TV such that I must use the Roku OS and remote when the TV comes on. It is much slicker than the other crap smart TV interfaces I've used, but when it goes out of style, that means I'll have to use one Roku remote to turn the TV on, browse to the port of the other one, click ok, and now I'm in the second Roku OS. That won't be as nice. Still- for now, it's fine, which is why I bought it.

If I could have gotten the same TV without any smart features and an external Roku, that would have been better long-term, but almost all newer TVs now are smart.

> If I could have gotten the same TV without any smart features and an external Roku, that would have been better long-term, but almost all newer TVs now are smart.

Its important to remember that "TVs" are just "displays whose bundled additional features include at least a TV tuner".

Unless you absolutely need a TV tuner, you can get displays that include neither a TV tuner nor smart features, but they aren't sold as "TVs" because they aren't.

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