hmm.. smart tv, or, a cell phone with the biggest screen, yet the functionality of a phone.You may change phones every two years or a year and a half (more or less), but you probably buy a tv set intended to last a little longer than that.Unless these are Android tvs, it uses a custom os, which means that apps are developed specifically for that tv set. If the developers find that a particular model of tv, and a specific model is not big enough as a market, then there won’t be apps for that tv set. On the other hand, if it uses android (which has become the new windows), just as with phones, about two years more or less, models start becoming short in specs to run recent apps.Yet, any flat tv smart or not smart has jacks for computer, hdtv etc, or even usb and card readers.So instead of a smart tv, you may get a big tv that features things that a phone can not have (like 3d capabilities), and supply all smart functions with any other thing, like an amazon or google chromecast, or a game console, which has way more capabilities than can be expected in any smart tv (the game system, not the usb key). When the chromecast becomes obsolete, you don’t have to discard the whole screen because is not smart enough
by the way, smart tv is NOT the way of the future (but there is a huge market for things that supply smart functions in existing tvs, and can be replaced way cheaper); also, there is already not a chip, but an app that lets you watch whatever you want wherever you want. Is called Netflix
to clear out previous comment: every flat tv has at least some smart (processing) capabilities. If you attach an usb or insert a memory card, it will display a menu to select which content to display. That requires at least a minimum processing. same to display menus and other stuff. Also, you don’t buy a tv according to the number of cores in the cpu or things like that, and since those are not really complex processors as the top model of the latest phone, the cost to add those features is not that much. But if you expect to buy a tv because it can run apps, tv sets is not what is on the mind of developers, and to change a tv set may be more complex than changing a phone, so your tv may get deprecated over time, and eventually you will have to buy an external thing to keep running apps, or use the service that is in use by then (you don’t know how long will Netflix last). So if you buy a tv, it may not be the best option to buy it because of the smart capabilities, if those can be supplied by any other external thing
redback about 8 years ago
hmm.. smart tv, or, a cell phone with the biggest screen, yet the functionality of a phone.You may change phones every two years or a year and a half (more or less), but you probably buy a tv set intended to last a little longer than that.Unless these are Android tvs, it uses a custom os, which means that apps are developed specifically for that tv set. If the developers find that a particular model of tv, and a specific model is not big enough as a market, then there won’t be apps for that tv set. On the other hand, if it uses android (which has become the new windows), just as with phones, about two years more or less, models start becoming short in specs to run recent apps.Yet, any flat tv smart or not smart has jacks for computer, hdtv etc, or even usb and card readers.So instead of a smart tv, you may get a big tv that features things that a phone can not have (like 3d capabilities), and supply all smart functions with any other thing, like an amazon or google chromecast, or a game console, which has way more capabilities than can be expected in any smart tv (the game system, not the usb key). When the chromecast becomes obsolete, you don’t have to discard the whole screen because is not smart enough
redback about 8 years ago
by the way, smart tv is NOT the way of the future (but there is a huge market for things that supply smart functions in existing tvs, and can be replaced way cheaper); also, there is already not a chip, but an app that lets you watch whatever you want wherever you want. Is called Netflix
redback about 8 years ago
to clear out previous comment: every flat tv has at least some smart (processing) capabilities. If you attach an usb or insert a memory card, it will display a menu to select which content to display. That requires at least a minimum processing. same to display menus and other stuff. Also, you don’t buy a tv according to the number of cores in the cpu or things like that, and since those are not really complex processors as the top model of the latest phone, the cost to add those features is not that much. But if you expect to buy a tv because it can run apps, tv sets is not what is on the mind of developers, and to change a tv set may be more complex than changing a phone, so your tv may get deprecated over time, and eventually you will have to buy an external thing to keep running apps, or use the service that is in use by then (you don’t know how long will Netflix last). So if you buy a tv, it may not be the best option to buy it because of the smart capabilities, if those can be supplied by any other external thing
Burgundy2 about 8 years ago
I can see what I want in my head. I call it “reading a book.”