It bears repeating so I will. No TV should get a 5* rating if it cannot deliver the full range of content from the major content channels. To put 'lacks catch-up apps' and then give 5* is to entirely miss the point of a TV which has only one function - to deliver content.
TVs have no intrinsic value. They are simply devices to deliver content. No matter how thin, how deep the blacks, how 'engaging' the sound - if it won't deliver BBCiPlayer, for example - at least one * off. Actually, I'd give it no more than 2*.
"Fantastic technical achievment by XX but ineligable for our recomendations because it lacks major content providers"
Come on W.H-F. Rattle the lock of the 'lacks apps' mob'.