ston
My 2p: buy the dumbest TV you can find (these days, this probably means a TV with an in-built freeview decoder, UK certainly).  There is no guarantee that the TV's smarts will keep up to date with interface/protocol/DRM/yadda changes, which means that it will most likely lose its smarts before long (I would say this is most certainly the case).  Better to attach a cheap laptop/phone/TV stick/'chromebook'-style 'puter via HDMI and let the computer device provide the smarts for streaming video from the internet (whether from youtube, BBC iPlayer, ITV player etc. etc.)
 
Also, for the money, you'll get a much better TV than if you bought a 'smart' one.  I went for a 'best picture, screw the sound as I'm using a hifi 42" dumb-as-possible' TV and it cost me £169.  Bargain.  The picture is really good and it's a perfect size for my room.   I'd guess smart TV's do have an ethernet port, as otherwise there'd be no other means to connect to the services which they wont be able to communicate with before too long ;-)
 
In slightly related news, the BBC have finally seen the light and have implemented an HTML5 interface - yay!  I can watch iPlayer programs again (Adobe Flash AKA let me drive a fleet of vulnerability trucks right through your house has been removed from every device I have).  C'mon ITV Player, get with the program.  In fact, everybody get with it and with any luck Flash will be relegated to the digital dustbin forever.

Interesting thoughts. Too many options..brain hurts now...

jamesg1213
Interesting thoughts. Too many options..brain hurts now...

You can only blame yersef mayte.
 
Not really sure if you know yersef. But blame yersef anyway.

craigb
James has time for TV?  
 
(I thought he was supposed to be recording tracks whenever he wasn't out in someone's yard...)

Yard? YARD? I'm a GARDENER!!
 
This is a garden (and that's my van)
 

 
This is a yard;
 

I used the Netgear Powerline AV 500 for awhile and it worked well. The adapter has an Ethernet port, so you could connect that to the TV. I did have to reboot every week or so, but that wasn't a major problem.
When TWC increased the rent for their modem, I decided to buy a wifi modem/router and save a little money over time.

jamesg1213
This is a yard;
 

For a second I thought that was a screen grab of the shop forecourt in Farming Simulator 2015...  I found myself planning how to budget for that JCB telehandler!

Wood67

jamesg1213
This is a yard;
 

For a second I thought that was a screen grab of the shop forecourt in Farming Simulator 2015...  I found myself planning how to budget for that JCB telehandler!

 
Spookily, I Googled 'builders yard' and this was the image that came up first - it's about 10 miles away from me, and I buy stuff there on a regular basis. Windows 10 - it can see into your soul...

jamesg1213

Wood67

jamesg1213
This is a yard;
 

For a second I thought that was a screen grab of the shop forecourt in Farming Simulator 2015...  I found myself planning how to budget for that JCB telehandler!

 
Spookily, I Googled 'builders yard' and this was the image that came up first - it's about 10 miles away from me, and I buy stuff there on a regular basis. Windows 10 - it can see into your soul...

So, now you're admitting that you DO spend time in a yard, eh? 

Touche', turtle.

Another option is to buy a DVD player that's network-enabled. That's what I did in my bedroom, allowing me to use an older TV that didn't have "smarts" but was still quite serviceable in terms of picture quality. This can be more cost-effective, because a "smart" DVD player costs only about $50 more, whereas the price difference for TVs may be $100-200.