I bought a Smart TV

[Landshark]

My wife and I had lengthy discussions about this, set a budget, and I've been bargain hunting for weeks, but yesterday I scored a 60 inch Sharp Aquos Smart TV for $750.  It was an open box item (hence the price).  This is my first foray into the world of Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube right from the TV screen.  Anyone here own Smart TV's and if so, what can you tell me about them?

[Brian Fein]

I saw one on tv the other day that didn't have a remote control, but instead had a camera and operated like Xbox Kinect.  You wave your hand in the air in certain gestures to do things.  I thought that was awesome.

My next TV purchase will be a smartTV, but probably not for a while.

[Dave Gray]

Landshark, do you currently use Netflix to stream things?

[stinkyfish]

Hey landshark, do these smart TVs feature a browser as a feature  Although having the apps would be cool, if a somewhat useful browser wasn't included, it would be a deal breaker for me.

[AZ Fins Fan 55]

I actually just recently purchased a 70" Sharp Aquos Smart TV. I would like to tell you all about it except for the fact that I haven't even bothered to hook it up to my wifi yet lol. I do not use Netflix and I have a Youtube app on my PS3 so I really only use my TV to watch TV. I wanted at least a 70" TV and all the ones I could find were Smart TV's so I bought one. I'm sure it does a lot of cool shit but I haven't taken the time to figure it out so yeah anyone else that has a smart TV that can tell me what all the rage is I would love to hear about it as well.

[bsfins]

^^ I don't get the point of a smart T.V. personally,almost everything I have hooked up to my T.V.has the majority of the stuff any smart T.v can offer.My blue ray play,and my P.C. are both hooked to my T.V...I didn't use 99% of those features built into my T.V.,240htz,picture sharing,music stuff built into my T.V...

I do like picture and picture feature...My hope my current T.V. can make it till the 2nd or 3rd generation 4k resolution T.V. are pretty common, reasonably priced(and content becomes more available) I'm pretty happy with my Samsung...

[Landshark]

Landshark, do you currently use Netflix to stream things?

No but once my TV arrives, I'm gonna get a Netflix account.

[fyo]

I saw one on tv the other day that didn't have a remote control, but instead had a camera and operated like Xbox Kinect.  You wave your hand in the air in certain gestures to do things.  I thought that was awesome.

Try "awful". Actually using one of these things is horrible. I'm not saying there's definitively no place for gestures when operating TVs, but the current generation is (very) slow and imprecise.

[Brian Fein]

Try "awful". Actually using one of these things is horrible. I'm not saying there's definitively no place for gestures when operating TVs, but the current generation is (very) slow and imprecise.

I don't doubt that, although the Kinect technology appears to be very accurate.  So I imagine its a matter of tuning and power to make it usable.  Nonetheless, I can see this being the way we use TV's in the future.

[Landshark]

Try "awful". Actually using one of these things is horrible. I'm not saying there's definitively no place for gestures when operating TVs, but the current generation is (very) slow and imprecise.

I don't doubt that, although the Kinect technology appears to be very accurate.  So I imagine its a matter of tuning and power to make it usable.  Nonetheless, I can see this being the way we use TV's in the future.

From what y'all are saying, this appears to be new cutting edge technology for TV's.  The first forays into new technologies always have kinks that need to be worked out.  I'm sure there will be improvement down the line. 

Take for example my first 4GLTE Android Smartphone (the HTC Thunderbolt).  That thing had a pathetic battery life.  I'd have to charge it three times a day to keep it working.  My new Samsung Galaxy S3 has no such issues.

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I don't doubt that, although the Kinect technology appears to be very accurate.  So I imagine its a matter of tuning and power to make it usable.  Nonetheless, I can see this being the way we use TV's in the future.

I can just see it.  I waive to someone to tell them to get out of the way of my watching TV and the TV changes channel.  No thanks.