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What a stupid title. As if anybody's buying smart devices in the hope they'll be worth more someday.
My on topic advice: if you rely on your smart TV to get to your content, you're going to have a bad time. Get a small computer instead, and treat your "smart" TV as a monitor, nothing more.
I did get myself an nvidia shield last year, and after switching out the stock launcher for something that doesn't show ads (and better yet, launches straight into plex at boot), I couldn't be happier.
Where is everyone getting the ads? And why don't I have them? Not that I want them, but I own two Shields and neither has ads on the homescreen.
I was getting "suggestions" to install apps for streaming platforms like Disney or hbo which I had to scroll past before I could start the apps I installed myself.
Maybe you're on a different firmware version from me.