Just buy the latest Apple TV 4K for a relatively low cost upgrade (compared to a new TV). I have a 2017 LG OLED model and I don’t notice any lagginess because I hardly ever use the TVs UI.
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LG Adds Apple TV, Apple Music, and Other Apple Features to webOS TVs
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So... TVs from other brands that run webOS will be upgraded to include AirPlay but LG's own pre-2018 TVs that also run webOS do not get AirPlay support.LG tried to force existing customers to upgrade and all they did was tell us that they'll abandon us the second they have our money. This is why when I had a chance to replace my LG, I went with Sony and will never buy LG again.
AirPlay on third party TVs is as an input, meaning you can AirPlay to these TVs from AirPlay output devices like iPhones, iPads, Macs, etc. The TV doesn't output AirPlay which is what you'd need to play the TV's audio to a HomePod. This is one reason you might still want an Apple TV box. I have a Sony with AirPlay and HomeKit but I still have an Apple TV because I love the UI and some tvOS apps.
If you set the country/region to Other instead of United States, it disables all of the services, including the notifications. I use my LG as a display only, so having it constantly give me popup messages was really annoying.
One of my LGs (2017 B7 OLED) is connected to an A10x AppleTv and is fine. The other (a 2020 UN7000, I think) relies on the internal AppleTV app, and it is unwatchably laggy. Netflix and Amazon play smoothly, but we’re working our way through the last few episodes of See, and that TV drops frames, skips ahead, etc like crazy after the most recent software updates. Irritating as the SoC is so slow that AirPlay from my 10.5 iPad Pro doesn’t even solve the issue…
Just bought an LG C2 and noticed the Apple TV app. I don’t use it because I still need the other apps currently sitting on my Apple TV itself.
Not if it means separate apps in the LG Content Store. Apple TV was added quite awhile back, but maybe the LG Content Store will now list Apple Music as a separate app?
I've found AirPlay to be clunky on webOS. I can cast something from my iPhone once, but then if I disconnect, it won't connect again without either turning the TV off and on again, or resetting AirPlay on the TV. Not as easy as using Chromecast.
I don't care how many apps a TV is capable of. TV manufacturers sell user data. They've also been caught flat out spying on people (back during the brief time that some TVs had built in cameras). My TV will only ever have a network connection when I want to install firmware updates. All other times it will just be a dumb display for my AppleTV or some other input. I understand that won't stop apps like Hulu or Netflix from selling data, but I'm going to limit the possibility as much as possible.
Guess the keywords here are "over 100 countries" as most features were geolocked?
My brother and his wife use the native Samsung TV interface for all their streaming services. It is laggy and far from fluid in any way. I asked him why he doesn’t just a device that works better. He called it a waste of money, and then showed me on his phone (with a cracked screen) how he can use some random remote app to browse the numerous movies he digitally bought and watched once.
Okay, this has nothing to do with the story but the guy in the photo has a hairy neck. Didn't they have hair and makeup people for this photo shoot? If you're going to be in a photo meant for mass communications, don't you think a little cleaning up is in order??? Just a thought.
I mean, that's the model of the Apple TV, Firestick, Google TV.Along those same lines... I wish TV manufacturers would put all the electronics (logic board, HDMI ports, etc) in a box that slides into a slot in the back of the TV.
Then you can buy an upgraded replacement box when new tech is released. You'd get all new guts while keeping the same screen.
Of course they won't do that because they want to sell you an entire new TV... but I can dream.
You just leave the TV tuned to HDMI1 (you can even disable the "smart menu on boot" option on 99% of smart TVs) and just use the streaming box remote to turn it on/off and control all your content.
Well yeah... leave the TV on HDMI1 and the TV is just a glorified monitor. That's what I do on one of my TVs with an AppleTV already.
I was just thinking it would be cool if the TV manufacturer would be into the upgradability of their own TVs... instead of letting 3rd-parties do it.
But like I said... the TV manufacturers want to sell a new TV to you after a while.
Funny for us our recent 65” LG OLED TV functions only as a monitor for us… 💙
I have the same setup. There is no way I want my TV connected to the Internet. There was some noise a few years ago on the amount of snooping LG was doing. Their privacy statement is not confidence inspiring.
I unboxed the C2, physically plugged it into Ethernet for the OS updates and then disconnected it. I imagine a couple times a year I will update it the same way.
I like to keep controls around which ecosystems get my data and even limits inside that. For example I have an Amazon Visa and the ONLY thing it gets used for is Amazon.
I’m using the Apple TV app on my 2022 LG OLED TV. Since it’s been running really well, frequent OS updates have made it even better performance wise, I’ve decided against the purchase of a real Apple TV. In spite of that, Airplay (2) has been a rather disappointing lag-show on this TV. It’s only good for viewing images, video streaming has issues. Even 1080p videos can not be streamed smoothly from an iphone or ipad.
Ofcourse this is old news. But youre on macrumors, you expect it to be diffrent?
Anyway, trust LG to mock it up. Try to play your dolby atmos or spatial tracks!
The signal youre getting in is plane stereo, so forget about all the nice and fancy apple stuff.
As usual LG's webOS is still hopelessly crappy.
Anyway, trust LG to mock it up. Try to play your dolby atmos or spatial tracks!
The signal youre getting in is plane stereo, so forget about all the nice and fancy apple stuff.
As usual LG's webOS is still hopelessly crappy.
Might depend on the device. I was always happy with my Samsung TVs, but I avoided the lower end products.
I now have QN800 65" 8K and the Samsung Freestyle beamer (both with Netflix Apple TV etc already on board) and everything works great.