I got a new Samsung TV (Tizen), do you think I can write an app for it? Hell no!

Now, it's just funny that Samsung hasn't learnt important lessons from its success with Android: serve hackers first, and market-share will come automatically. Someone please show them the Ballmer "song".

<sarcastic tone> You mean that on top of its closed firmware this is closed software as well? </sarcastic tone>

Forget the shiny stuff they ship with their TVs with and use an external hardware instead. It's not ideal but you'd be amazed by the things a Raspberry Pi2 can do when wired to a TV.

My 5 year old Sony TV can no longer support Netflix and can't be upgraded. External hardware is absolutely the way to go.

Indeed!

On the plus side you can benefit from your hardware with other viewing medium.

With a HDMI switch I can watch some Netflix either on my TV or my video projector this way - Not on a Pi though as Netflix uses proprietary encryption which is a pain to setup for it. But other things like a WDTV HD does the job fairly decently.

Thanks for the warning, I'm not going to purchase a Samsung (will upgrade TV in 2016).