Which device would you buy with the "Smarts", the display or the BluRay player

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I know that apps can and will differ between displays and BluRay/media players and maybe because of that one would want to buy both with smarts. But if the apps were the same, why duplicate it? My thinking is let the BluRay/media player handle the smarts and buy the best picture quality and the largest possible screen size one can get without the smarts.

 

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I know that apps can and will differ between displays and players and maybe because of that one would want to buy both with smarts. But if the apps were the same, why duplicate it? My thinking is let the BluRay player handle the smarts and buy the best picture quality and the largest possible screen size one can get without the smarts.

That is my line of reasoning too.

You will most likely replace the BDP before the display and things will change by then.

If anything, I think Samsung has a good idea where they stick all the "smarts" in an outboard box so that the smarts can be updated without updating the panel.

However, smart TVs just seem like something from the department of redundancy department.