My main reasons;
1. TV's and their apps are supported for waayyyy less time than an ATV.
2. Remotes for the TV's are nowhere near as sleek/nice as the ATV one, and Siri is actually pretty useful for searching for stuff.
3. I personally prefer my TV to just be a screen and nothing else. A good screen should last a long time and you can plug whatever functionality you want into it.
My relatively high-end Sony TV stopped getting updates 1 year after I bought it, and started getting sluggish a year after that to the point where it was incredibly frustrating to use. It also connected to my neighbours open wifi without me telling it to after I removed it from my wifi, presumably so it could still show me ads. I ended up popping the back off it, and yanking out its wifi antennas - after that it's been a GREAT dumb screen and the menus/UI are now very responsive.
1. TV's and their apps are supported for waayyyy less time than an ATV.
2. Remotes for the TV's are nowhere near as sleek/nice as the ATV one, and Siri is actually pretty useful for searching for stuff.
3. I personally prefer my TV to just be a screen and nothing else. A good screen should last a long time and you can plug whatever functionality you want into it.
My relatively high-end Sony TV stopped getting updates 1 year after I bought it, and started getting sluggish a year after that to the point where it was incredibly frustrating to use. It also connected to my neighbours open wifi without me telling it to after I removed it from my wifi, presumably so it could still show me ads. I ended up popping the back off it, and yanking out its wifi antennas - after that it's been a GREAT dumb screen and the menus/UI are now very responsive.