Phillip Corcoran :
Smart TV is better option in my opinion --- everything integrated --- "dumb" TVs are history.
In theory.
There is a recent thread somebody complaining his built-in App suxs. I myself with a budget Sony, the dang Youtube App, which I use a lot sux, can't RW/FF the dang thing, can't playback video with a last-played bookmark. I dunno if App or TV CPU just too low powered. In contrast even my Apple3 box, a couple of generation back already, operates much smoother. Jobs: One task, one cpu (ahem) just saying.
I don't know if anybody can buy dumb TVs these days, Samsung may have even drop their 4 lineup, haven't checked. Don't worry about built-in App so much, but surveying the latest landscape, it seem to me people vote the Roku TV...