Things changes: in the past the TV was a means of mass communication with both trash and valuable contents, nowadays that's only trash, at least in my current (France) and home (Italy) countries, so the fact all TV are "smart" (or, their buyer are considered dumb by the "smart" device OEM) it's just part of a Darwinian evolutionary process: a small help to push certain cohort of users out of TVs for the sake of humanity...