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Kevin Collins

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Strategy Analytics recently did a report on Smart TV market share in the US. Sammy had 29.6% and Vizio had 24.4% of Smart TV share.

That's interesting, but the bigger question to me is how many people actually use the Smart TV feature? The reason I ask is last night I was at a friends house who had a recently purchased Sammy LCD TV. What was he using for his "Smart TV"? Tivo and Apple TV. I found it ironic that he could get similiar functionality with the Smart TV part of his Sammy, but he was using other components.

I think that speaks volumes to how relevant Smart TV is to consumers...

Do you use the Smart TV functionality in your TV?
 

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Kevin Collins said:
Do you use the Smart TV functionality in your TV?
I don't even know what it is, or whether mine is one. Seriously.
 

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I use Netflix and CinemaNow on my Panny plasma in my HT with the ARC feeding my receiver. My other two TVs are equipped with a Netflix enabled BD player and a Roku 2 respectively. I don't know if I would buy another Smart TV, as if/when I go projection, I will likely build an HTPC for that, which would give me access to Netflix and CinemaNow.
 

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Most new TV's coming out will probably be smart TV's anyway. I don't have one, but if I did, I would try it both ways, and see if the TV worked better or Blu-ray player, etc.
 

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Kevin Collins said:
That's interesting, but the bigger question to me is how many people actually use the Smart TV feature? The reason I ask is last night I was at a friends house who had a recently purchased Sammy LCD TV. What was he using for his "Smart TV"? Tivo and Apple TV. I found it ironic that he could get similiar functionality with the Smart TV part of his Sammy, but he was using other components.

From your comments I suspect that your friend had the TiVo and ATV before he/she bought the Samsung? In that case he probably just hooked everything back up the same as it was before. Also, I don't agree with the suggestion that the TV can do everything a TiVo or an ATV does. It may have a guide and online access, but I don't think smart TVs have recording capability yet. And IIRC, the ATV offers iTunes, which probably isn't available from the TV alone.
 

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