That is really my one concern. The Kiwi Idiot's smart TV has stopped working with at least 1 NZ TV app because it has updated beyond the capabilities of his telly. Reckon he's had it 5 years though. I am keen to get something that is not going to be obsolete in 5 minutes but that's probably difficult given the speed at which this stuff changes.
This is the thing.....my dad's Virgin subscription provided a huge amount of stuff I would never watch. I have no interest in sport and my movie viewing habits are not mainstream so the pay movie channels also don't usually offer what I want.
The PS4 is a great box for this, if itv hub and UK player could sort a app for it would be one of the best boxes available.
Virgin are a company of cunts. I am stuck with them as the only good cable broadband round here.
there are plenty of apps you can get 'pay films' on them. Really would not get ANY subscription unless you somehow run out of stuff to watch
Yeah the iPlayer, 4OD, Netflix and Amazon fulfill my viewing needs and I'll subscribe again to Curzon Cinema for more interesting films.Virgin are a company of cunts. I am stuck with them as the only good cable broadband round here.
There is so much stuff to watch that you just don't get time
No interest in playing games so that's not for me either.
Virgin are a company of cunts. I am stuck with them as the only good cable broadband round here.
There is so much stuff to watch that you just don't get time
I think I'll wait until the apps stop working and then add to whatever I buy as needed.
Dunno about the rest but Sony's upgrade automatically. I get 4k movies via apps on mine.Its those cheap android boxes that you end up throwing away. Firesticks/TV are ok.
You could throw that in the bin, buy a new LCD and pay for it with what you'd save in electricity in a year.I'm still using an old 50" plasma that's about as smart as brick.
I sometimes go for weeks but I'm sure a newer model would fix that
The apps on my Samsung upgrade automatically too. I think what purenarcotic is saying is that over time (just like with phones and computers) the hardware and built in software of the TV won't cope with the new apps and therefore won't get upgraded. At some point, the existing apps on your TV may no longer be compatible with what's being broadcast and then your apps won't work. As for the time frame, I'm not sure, but you'd hope it would be at least five years maybe a little longer.
I don't want to be changing my TV every five years either. The one before my smart TV was over 15 years old and was still working!
The way I thought about it was that I might as well buy a decent smart TV with all the bells and whistles now and so long as it had enough connections on it to add a state of the art box somewhere down the line then I'd be able to use it for as long as possible. That's what I did with my old one - added a freeview box, Tivo or whatever as needed.
This^^^
as and when the pop up
Sure I can see the logic but the 'at some point' isn't imminent. Most apps supply sources from 480 through to 1080 and some up to 4k ie they have sources that aren't cutting edge . You can pick up sport streams in different formats. The amount of 4k material is minimal yet the technology to view it has been out for yonks. I cant see mainstream applications like iplayer, netflix, amazon losing subscribers because their app no longer stream a certain content never mind the pirate apk producers. etc anyway aren't the vast majority of TVs produced now smart anyway?
