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What are the better smart TVs ?
I have Smart TVs (LG) but I use AppleTV with them. I’ve never even enabled the SmartTV features. Using a QUALITY external device (Roku, AppleTV) is better because that standalone device has more compute power than the SmartTV does.
And as others mentioned, if you’re an Apple customer, tying the AppleTV to iCloud gives it access to apps, videos, music, etc. that you have from other Apple stores. Once you install YouTube on an AppleTV, and watch those videos on a big screen, you’ll never go back to watching them on a small phone screen when you’re home.
As far as MFA goes, if your iPhone and AppleTV are on the same home network, you will get prompted on your iPhone to use it to enter text. So, rather than trying to use the AppleTV remote to hunt and peck a character at a time to enter passwords or MFA codes, you can use the keyboard on your iPhone. Same thing for content searching in any app running in the AppleTV.
Seriously, for me the only bad aspect of the AppleTV is the minimalist design of the Remote. But all iPhones have a built-in Remote app that can be used in place of, or alongside, the AppleTV remote.
Bottom line: keep the Smart TV dumb, buy an AppleTV or the best Roku, and install apps for the content providers you prefer.
-rb
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