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No, you don’t need a Smart TV to use a streaming player. However, if you have a Smart TV, you still may want to use a separate player because, generally speaking, the TVs often don’t support as many apps as the players do. One major exception is that some Smart TVs have a web browser built into them but the major streaming players don’t. I expect both of these previous sentences to change before too long as more and more people move away from traditional cable and satellite services to Internet-based content.

One other thing to note is that all of the Big Four streaming players (Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Google Chromecast) do require a TV with at least one HDMI port to plug into except for the Roku 1 model, which can connect to a TV using composite A/V cables (red/white/yellow connectors). So the Roku 1 is a good choice if you have an older TV that doesn’t have HDMI ports.