Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Menlo Park, CA, USA
Programs: UA 1MM 0P, AA, DL, *wood, Lifetime FPC Plat., IHG, HHD
Posts: 6,912
yeah with @gfunk on this one. If the TV is a CRT or even an earlier gen EDTV/HDTV type, plasma or early gen LCD, it MAY not have an HDMI input (or possibly a Gen1 version at best) and you'll be jumping through hoops to get things hooked up with additional component/composite cable adaptors and amplifiers and crap that will totally make it not worth it.
Depending on the TV, you could just get a smart TV As others have said and get those applications right on the TV.. netflix.hulu.amazon are pretty much on all decent quality 2014+ LED/LCD tv's.
or, one simple dongle depending on your PHONE type (ios or android) and you'd be done.
OR, you could get a tv and one of the stand alone OTA/TIVO roamio's, usually selling for about 200-250$ all in with service included for life. From there, you could get OTA with a small antennae and ALL those services onboard - and you could watch it outside the house AND record shows if you like (I know, you don't record shows)