Having just bought an OLED65C1PVB very disapointed with their apps for NZ

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#293553 29-Jan-2022 18:41

As per title I have only managed to download Spark sport and TVNZ apart from the rubbish apps they have of no interest to me. Is there a way to sideload apps?

Bit late now but what content of 4K is shown here in NZ?

And is it worth upgrading existing Apple TV to the new Apple TV 4K would I notice any viewing improvement?

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#2858218 29-Jan-2022 19:54

What applics can’t you find?

I looked up the model number and it’s LG. I am very happy with my one.

All the main applics are there, Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney plus, which all do 4K and make use of OLED.

Also Apple TV can be downloaded to it and Apple TV plus is available plus the pay per view movies, including weekly 99 cents rental ones.

Apple TV for the above will make no difference to picture. It’s only of use if there’s an Applic you’re interested in, or if they stop supporting one on TV.

Edit: If you only have Apple HD model, the picture will look better running TV Applic, will need new Apple TV if want to run 4K from the Apple TV.

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#2858227 29-Jan-2022 20:27

Disney +, Netflix, iTunes and possibly Google Play are in 4K for various bits of content. An external player of some sort generally yields better results than the built in apps on the LGs, I mainly find I use my built in apps on my C9 when I'm feeling particularly lazy and uninvested in having 5.1ch sound.

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#2858263 29-Jan-2022 23:46

toejam316:

Disney +, Netflix, iTunes and possibly Google Play are in 4K for various bits of content. An external player of some sort generally yields better results than the built in apps on the LGs, I mainly find I use my built in apps on my C9 when I'm feeling particularly lazy and uninvested in having 5.1ch sound.

I get 5.1 and Dolby Digital Plus through the HDMI ARC , on my old receiver I used an optical cable and got 5.1 from the TV, without using an external player.

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#2858274 30-Jan-2022 04:28

rugrat:

I get 5.1 and Dolby Digital Plus through the HDMI ARC , on my old receiver I used an optical cable and got 5.1 from the TV, without using an external player.

C1 also does Dolby Atmos if you have the speakers for it - C9 and CX do too.

@xyeovillian I’m also interested to know what apps you want but can’t get. Do other brand TVs have apps the LG doesn’t?

There is one overseas app I would love to have directly on our C1 but it’s not practicable because it’s extremely difficult to change geo region on LG TVs. That one we have got on ATV so we do have it - just not quite as convenient to use.

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#2858281 30-Jan-2022 07:18

eracode: There is one overseas app I would love to have directly on our C1 but it’s not practicable because it’s extremely difficult to change geo region on LG TVs. That one we have got on ATV so we do have it - just not quite as convenient to use.

Is it more difficult to change regions on LG OLEDs as opposed to their cheap LCD brethren also running WebOS, or have newer versions of the OS made it more difficult? It’s just that I did the region change to add O/S apps to our crud LCD soon after purchasing ir and IIRC it was pretty straightforward. Changed back to NZ afterwards and the O/S apps remained - can’t recall if they’ll update or not though…

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#2858291 30-Jan-2022 07:52

jonathan18:

Is it more difficult to change regions on LG OLEDs as opposed to their cheap LCD brethren also running WebOS, or have newer versions of the OS made it more difficult? It’s just that I did the region change to add O/S apps to our crud LCD soon after purchasing ir and IIRC it was pretty straightforward. Changed back to NZ afterwards and the O/S apps remained - can’t recall if they’ll update or not though…

I don't know about WebOS on OLEDs v non-OLEDs. I spent a lot of time researching this for our C9 and C1 OLEDs and it was too hard for me. IIRC it involved using a non-LG remote (eg Harmony, which I don't have) and getting access to the 'service menu' to enter arcane codes and so on. The advice I saw came with warnings about possible difficulty getting back to original settings - scared me off.

On our TVs it's certainly not possible to simply change region using just the remote and the menu on the TV - LG lock it down quite tightly. How long ago did you do your region change and did you use the above method?

Edit: I've found the original 2019 discussion on LG region-changing here on GZ but not sure it's OK to post a link to that thread here - search GZ Forums for "change region lg tv" and it's the first hit.

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#2858311 30-Jan-2022 09:06

While we are on the subject of LG OLED's I bought an A1 recently and I can't get DD5.1 out of the optical audio out.

My configuration is

Win 10 PC running custom built media player with NVidia HDMI out to

LG A1 with optical audio out to

Old Yamaha receiver (which doesn't know about HDMI)

With this setup all I get out of the Yamaha is stereo. I have a sound card in the PC with optical out and if I connect that to the Yamaha I do get DD 5.1 but the problem with that is I don't get anything else. Wasn't a problem before as my old TV had an RCA connector I could use so non DD 5.1 came out of the TV.

I've Googled endlessly but found nothing that works. I did read somewhere that there is a service menu setting for the optical out format that switches between DD 5.1 and stereo but obviously have no way of verifying that and wouldn't be happy accessing it anyway.

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#2860858 2-Feb-2022 21:10

xyeovillian:

As per title I have only managed to download Spark sport and TVNZ apart from the rubbish apps they have of no interest to me. Is there a way to sideload apps?

@xyeovillian As requested in a couple of posts, could you tell us what apps you want to see on your TV that you can’t get via LG?

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