Samsung rethinks Smart TV (and we're impressed)

We've been hearing about "smart TV" for so long, the term is starting to sound dumb. But at Samsung's CES press conference Monday, the more I heard about the newest Smart TVs, the more I wanted one.

Usually, it's the opposite - the more you see and experience, the worse the stuff seems, riddled with caveats. And there are certainly caveats with Samsung's newest sets, but the more we heard today, the more this sounds like what everyone's expecting Apple TV to be.

The 2013 Smart TV interface consist of five screens that you wave through with your remote, the way you'd flick across the screens of a smartphone. (Coincidence? I think not.)

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