We are looking to upgrade our current 5 year old 40 inch TV to maybe a 50-55 inch and possibly a Roku TV.

We use the Roku streaming stick and love it and I wasn't sure if the Roku TV's with that functionality built-in was as good? It's always been my understanding that many "smart" TV's weren't great at doing what the add-on devices did.

The plan is to put the 40 inch in the kids play room with the Roku stick and get a Roku TV for us but I am wondering if it would be better to just get a regular TV and another Roku stick?

Does anyone have an actual "Roku TV"? I'm not interested in the regular "smart" TV's that have Netflix, etc loaded. We really like the Roku interface.

My parents have a couple TCL’s and I am pretty impressed with them.

We looked at the Roku TV's a few months back when shopping TV's. Although they looked pretty good, we decided against it because Roku boxes are very inexpensive and the technology changes often. That opens up a very large variety of TV's especially at that price point. I guess what I'm getting at is the fact having a built in Roku is not really a big deal.

I've got a Roku TCL. I have no complaints but do not have a roku stick or regular smart tv to compare it to. We do not have cable and everything we watch comes through that Roku TV and it's apps. I'd buy another.

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Originally posted by NavyGuy:
We looked at the Roku TV's a few months back when shopping TV's. Although they looked pretty good, we decided against it because Roku boxes are very inexpensive and the technology changes often. That opens up a very large variety of TV's especially at that price point. I guess what I'm getting at is the fact having a built in Roku is not really a big deal.

I really think this is the right answer.

Unless you're the kind of person who just has to have the latest and greatest everything and replaces TVs every couple of years, I think smart TVs are a terrible idea.

A couple of years down the road, the manufacturer will stop updating it, or the apps will be updated over and over again for newer, more powerful TVs and get so bloated your TV can barely run them, or you won't want a Roku anymore, you'll want a LKSJDFLS, or whatever.

I just bought a couple of TVs (a big one and a really big one) and they're smart TVs because all the good TVs are smart TVs now.

The TVs they replaced are 10+ years old but the current version Roku software was fast and responsive on them. You know why? Because last year I replaced my ancient Roku sticks that were starting to take forever to load Netflix with Roku Ultras for $100 each.

If I could've saved $100 and gotten the same screens in boxes with one HDMI input and no smart TV bullshit I'd have done it in a heartbeat.

Maybe it's my advanced age but I like the convenience of the built in Roku in both of our new TCL TVs (Series 6 65" and Series 5 49"). Software updates have been timely and great.

Smart features on these TVs can be turned off.

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I also have a 55" TCL Roku tv. It crashed a couple of times, but it entertains us well. We also have 2 smaller tvs with fire sticks. I prefer the smart tv.

I wouldn't turn down an otherwise attractive TV at an attractive price if it had Roku built in, but neither would I likely use the Roku functionality. I certainly would not pay extra for it.

The OTA TV network box and DVR software we use is not supported on Roku, so we're currently using Fire TV and Android TV devices. I expect to eventually swap those out for Apple TV boxes.

We have a TCL 55" 4k in one of our conference rooms & it's been trouble free as a projection device.

If you have good internet connection and a fast router, it works fine. On the other hand, if you don't, you can still use your cable box and use it like a regular tv.

I have a 43 inch TCL Roku and a 65 inch Vizio. The Roku is much better than the Vizio for usability and how frequently the apps are updated.

However, they both work and I can cast apps to both of them from my tablet.

If you use it to Netflix or stream from some other apps, some are dropping support for older TV and streaming devices.

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