do you get better quality to buy a smart tv, or a dumb tv that you can attach smart adapters? a new roku smart adapter is coming out in april, too
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If you are you hard line then you will get a faster link between device and tv. Image quality will depend on the file you are viewing. If you are watching a video that's in 1080p or HD and your smart tv is 1080p and the new roku is 1080p and the dumb tv is 1080p then there should be no difference in image quality. The biggest quality issue will be the quality of file (movie) you are viewing on your device.
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No need. Smart TV most likely has wireless capability. It should connect wirelessly to your network via your extender.
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Honestly for the price I bought it for, I was not concered about the internet connection. It's a 55" 3D HD TV that's 120hz and that's wht I wanted. I already have an Apple TV so the Smart TV option was not appealing to me. I feel people pay more for the smart tv feature when you can really get all that stuff through your cable provider or Apple.
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Yes Richard, and that's very disappointing. Wii will enable Netflix in April, without requiring any added purchases. Others have done the same. Panasonic is making us buy new models. I was planning to marry my Panny BD60 to a new Panny TV. No longer. I just ordered Roku, and will get a Vizio. I have a smaller 32 Vizio and it's great. Bye Bye Panny. One less customer to screw.
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hmmm, I have a dumb TV and it works good with that, don't know about a smart one!
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It is not a smart TV. I had a Roku but later on I just hooked it up to my Wii.
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You get a new TV. This isn't the stone age anymore.But if you must, there are adapters if your tv does not have an HDMI port. You may have to find another option then this Blu-Ray player.
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Its not a smart tv wit apps. But u can watxh netflix on it. I connect my xbox to the tv and watch netflix from my xbox. Or the same thing wit my laptop. I just use a hdmi cable.
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The Roku stick is what is used to get your Smart Apps for the HDTV. Without the Roku stick, you do not have a SMART HDTV.
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There is a post on the Economist.com which suggests HDTV buyers to wait for 6 months as the price of 1080p will start falling and those who buy it now it said "will kick temselves in the back". I agree Economist is not the best place for Tech related advice. However, this is more to do with pricing than technology and therefore would take it seriously!
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This is an old TV, so it's not a "smart" TV. You'll need a 3rd party device (ie: Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV, etc) in order to run any app like Amazon Video, Netflix, etc.
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no... requires a computer that has the ability to recognize new devices.... such as a tablet/laptop/desktop.TV's aren't that smart
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No, this is not a smart TV. If you want Netflix, you'll need some sort of media center solution. Options would be a console, an HTPC, Chromecast, Apple TV, something like that.Also, don't buy this TV cause it's junk. Mine died inexplicably after 3 weeks... see my review.
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I'm not sure about a smart TV but i am using it on a 55" LG hdtv. The TV was purchased last year so it is fairly new.
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Actually, you can unplug it and move it to different tvs until you are ready to buy more than 1 Roku.
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No problem, let me know if you have any more questions. I've had this TV for about a year now and I love it. The SMART TV (internet) features are pretty shabby but that's not why I bought it so for me it works great!
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You could have gotten the cheaper one but the picture wouldn't be as good. We have the basic model on the bedroom tv, it's HDTV, we bought it for the previous tv which it worked great on, but the picture on it isn't as good as the Roku2 that we have on the HDTV in the living room.