[shavenwarthog2]

A while back I "hacked" my Samsung TV. I spoofed a DNS entry to point to my laptop, and put a tiny webserver on it. Then I could hit the "News" button on my remote and get obscene fortune cookies on my TV!

Then I turned it off. Internet on TV is silly, as far as I can tell.

My girlfriend's wonderful Panasonic has tons of internet features -- web, youtube. Web is nearly useless because of lack of keyboard; youtube is awkward; vimeo isn't bad. Using an Android app, selecting your youtube video, then doing "send to TV" is great when we bother to do it.

The "smart" Panasonic is a dumb screen in front of Roku. The only other non-dumb features we use is the "play videos from SD card" feature, and the "play from DLNA (my laptop)" feature -- both get used quite often, and work well.