{"id":43572,"date":"2020-07-11T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2648069"},"modified":"2020-07-11T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T22:42:00","slug":"you-told-us-even-with-smart-tvs-youre-mostly-using-streaming-dongles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/11\/you-told-us-even-with-smart-tvs-youre-mostly-using-streaming-dongles\/","title":{"rendered":"You told us: Even with smart TVs, you\u2019re mostly using streaming dongles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TVs come in all different shapes and sizes, as well as varying levels of “smart.” When I bought my television a few years ago, I knew I wanted a bigger 4K TV without<\/strong> any smart features. I didn’t think I would use them (I already owned a Chromecast), and many manufacturers charge a premium<\/a> for that extra software. To this day I don’t regret my decision to buy a “dumb” TV.<\/p>\n

For those of you who do own a smart TV, do you use the built-in smart features? Or do you use a secondary device for your streaming needs? This is the very question I asked you last week<\/a>, and out of over 600 total votes, there’s a clear method most smart TV owners use to stream content<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Results<\/h2>\n

Surprisingly, 40.71% of voters who own a smart TV use an alternate method to stream their content. Out of that pool, a majority 36.67% use some sort of dongle — like a Chromecast<\/a>, Amazon Fire TV Stick, or Roku<\/a> — while 4.04% use a gaming console like a Nintendo Switch<\/a>, Xbox<\/a>, or PlayStation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

29.56% of voters exclusively use their TVs’ on-device software for streaming. Even more people (29.73%) tend to switch between a dongle and their TVs’ on-device software.<\/p>\n

Here’s what you had to say<\/h2>\n

Here are some of the best comments from last week’s poll explaining why they voted the way that they did:<\/p>\n