I was once told by a friend when exploring smart TVs: "Let me lay some Harry Potter logic on you: 'never trust anything if you can't see where it keeps its bra

I was once told by a friend when exploring smart TVs: "Let me lay some Harry Potter logic on you: 'never trust anything if you can't see where it keeps its brain'." This is actually very good advice (I've probably got the quote wrong but I digress). You're going to encounter abandoned products everywhere in smart tech; I wound up buying a Roku box and a dumb TV instead. It's a good combination - Roku is popular enough that the apps/channels are kept up to date, and I never need to worry that my TV will lose its features in a few years. If the Roku box shuffles out of support, it's cheaper to replace that than the TV. So the recommendation - don't bother with a smart TV unless you really need it to be all in one, and buy a smart add-on box instead.