> I consider it a mistake purchase. I agree, reading your entire comment, you probably should have researched it more if your intention was to replace the fact

> I consider it a mistake purchase. I agree, reading your entire comment, you probably should have researched it more if your intention was to replace the factory OS image with one of your own. But it happens to all of us; I have a useless Motorola phone sitting on my desk because I naively thought "it's Android, it must be hackable", and only discovered after I bought it that Motorola made the bootloader impossible to unlock. I decided a while back that a TV should just be a dumb monitor, and whatever "smart" features I want it to have can be had via a set top box, home-built HTPC, or a streaming stick. So far I've been very happy with the Roku 3 combined with a home-built HTPC/PVR. If I decide I want to upgrade to bigger or better screen, I only have to replace that one component. Ditto for the "smart" side of things. I see so-called Smart TVs as the TV/VCR combo of the 90s: When one half inevitably fails, you have to throw out the whole thing.