I would warn against jumping to the conclusion that a new TV is in order because of its ‘smarts’. While new TVs tend to be ‘smart’, they do not necessarily stay that way. There are a few threads elsewhere in the Choice Community’s Electronics and Techology space that point out these apps are generally not maintained after a couple of years.
If you want the ‘smarts’ you would probably be better off buying a set-top box running for instance Android, where you know the apps will be maintained. If you have an Android phone/tablet then maybe even a Google Chromecast will meet your needs, as you can install the TV apps on your phone and then stream them directly to the Chromecast that is plugged into your TV. I think this also works with Google Chrome on Windows PC (not sure about Mac).
