Our 4K TV was "dumb" when we bought it, but about a year or so afterwards, they released an update and added a ton of "smart" features to it. I think it's a Vizio brand?
One of the updates seriously glitched the whole thing, but a factory reset brought it back to life.
I kind of preferred when it was "dumb", because you didn't have to wait for anything to load up when you turned it on, but it's also kind of nice to not have to rely on the 360 or the WiiU for everything (though obviously the BluRay player still gets plenty of use). It's also nice that when the update hit, they sent us a new remote. The old remote didn't have a lot of features, you had to install a cell phone app to access most of the TV's options and settings.
jimmy m wrote:
I am not sure what "Smart" really means.
Basically it means that it has a processor/storage on board, so it can run streaming applications like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, PlutoTV, etc.