I&#x27;m still hoping the smart TV thing will turn out to be a brief fad, and we can all get back to just buying a dumb screen that other things can be plugged into.<p>The software on TVs I&#x27;ve experienced is universally awful, my parent&#x27;s one is particularly bad - you can go and make a cup of coffee in the time it takes for the Netflix app to start. When I heard that I bought them a FireTV stick and haven&#x27;t looked back.