How Do I Install Itv Player On Lg Smart Tv
From this monthFreeview Play is available on certain LG TVs¹, increasing the choice of Freeview Play enabled sets. LG will be joining the likes of Panasonic, Humax and JVC that already have Freeview Play built into product ranges.
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To access the Freeview Play scroll-back guide on these TVs you will need a software update – click here for more instructions.
What is Freeview Play?
Simply put, it’s live TV and on demand, all in one place. Watch catch up by scrolling back through your TV guide and access programmes you missed from the last seven days, on demand. Find programmes from BBC iPlayer, the ITV Hub, All 4, Demand 5 and UKTV Play sitting alongside over 70 digital channels and 15 HD channels. Simply make sure your TV or recorder is connected to the internet and you’re good to go. And as ever with Freeview, there’s no monthly fee.
Mid-range LG TVs
LG 65UH650V
£1,599
Our first entrant for LG’s mid-range Televisions, and it still boasts 4K HD capabilities at almost half the price of its OLED successors. It doesn’t pack the same weighty punch the OLED models do when it comes to sound, but for a 4K Smart TV it’s a solid contender.
LG 65UH750V
£1,549
Almost identical to the model above, but with 3D Colour Mapping: colour transitions are cleaner, especially when transitioning from dark to light colours.
LG 55UH850V
£1,149
Despite coming in 10″ smaller, enhanced 3D integration allows for a fully immersive environment- connect a 3D blu-ray player and enjoy. And of course it carries a 4K HD picture as well.
Best value LG TVs
LG 55UH615V
£699
This fantastic 4K HD screen is wrapped in a modern metallic housing and navigated via the intuitive Smart TV webOS which supports Freeview Play.
LG 55UH650V
£699
An HD display featuring ColourPrime Pro technology delivers a picture of vibrant colours. The perfect canvas for your entertainment, as a unique upscaling process and Smart 4K TV, ensure all your viewing is always in incredible detail.
LG 49UH661V
£629
Ushering in a new era in picture realism, the HDR-equipped LG 49UH661V makes TV more immersive than ever.
LG 49UH650V
£499
This LG model is ten times cheaper than the flagship model we outlined above. However, it still offers a 4K resolution alongside HDR processing, a Smart Web operating system and the ability to record onto a USB stick (EU only).
Click here on update instructions to bring the Freeview Play scroll-back feature to your Television.
¹ OLED65E6V, OLED55E6V, OLED65C6V, OLED55C6V, 86UH955V, 65UH950V, 55UH950V, 75UH855V, 65UH850V, 60UH850V, 55UH850V, 49UH850V, 65UH790V, 55UH790V, OLED65B6V, OLED55B6V, 75UH775V, 65UH770V, 60UH770V, 55UH770V, 49UH770V, 65UH750V, 55UH750V, 49UH750V, 43UH750V, 65UH668V, 55UH668V, 49UH668V, 43UH668V, 65UH661V, 55UH661V, 49UH661V, 43UH661V, 65UH650V, 55UH650V, 49UH650V, 43UH650V, 58UH630V, 50UH630V, 40UH630V, 65UH625V, 60UH625V, 5UH625V, 49UH620V, 43UH620V, 65UH615V, 60UH615V, 55UH615V, 49UH610V, 43UH610V
Subject to coverage. Aerial upgrade may be required. Minimum broadband speed of 2Mbps required to watch catch up and on demand. 7-day catch up on selected channels only. Additional services including scroll back TV guide available later in 2016. Software update maybe required.
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- Page 1LG Smart TV Review
- Page 2Voice Recognition and Recommendations Review
- Page 3Interface Review
- Page 4Apps and Video Content Review
- Page 5Second Screen Support Review
- Page 6Verdict Review
LG Smart TV 2013 – Content
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So far LG’s Smart TV system has impressed with its intuitive Magic Remote and search features, but the real acid test is the quality of apps and content available.
How Do I Install Itv Player On My Lg Smart Tv
Where
content is concerned, on one level – the sheer number of apps available
– it’s extremely impressive. By the time you’ve taken all the games,
utility, infotainment, and video streaming apps into account there are
literally hundreds of different apps to choose from.
Of course,
having so many apps around could be confusing. But as well as the main
card/folder interface discussed earlier proving effective in helping you
shortcut your way to the sort of apps you like, LG has done a great job
this year of making sure that the submenus for each folder are also
attractive, clean and helpful, keeping the search and browsing processes
logical and clean.
We
do, though, question the quality of some/many of the apps LG’s Smart
platform is populated with. It seemed to us that a pretty high
percentage of them are beyond trivial, totally rubbish, or both. This
entirely confirms our long-held that pretty much the only apps that
really count on a Smart TV platform are those devoted to video; the rest
are mostly just filler.
So how does the LG platform stand up when we focus on video? Decently is probably the best way to sum it up.
LG 2013 Smart TV System – Video Streaming
In
the Premium card/folder are links to LoveFilm, the BBC iPlayer,
Netflix, Acetrax (though this will soon be gone), BlinkBox, BBC Sport,
YouTube, and KnowHow Movies. Clicking through on the More button adds
Skype, Naspter, EuroSport Player, Redbull TV, Live Sport TV,
DeezerCrackle, and Daily Motion – as well as the inevitable Twitter and
Facebook apps.
4od
This is a solid effort, but you can’t ignore the
fact that Samsung additionally carries the key 4oD, Demand 5 and ITV
Player catchup services.
Another
small niggle on this secondary Premium content list is that the ‘TV’
box at the top left doesn’t keep playing your TV channel, but is instead
given over to an LG video advert before just sitting statically with
the LG logo in it.
The other main video streaming source is in
the card to the right of the Premium one: the 3D channel. And actually
as well as containing more content than we’d expected, the quality of
some of this content is also surprisingly strong. Rather than just
being populated by lots of weird documentaries and quirky stuff chiefly
sourced from Korea as was the case last year, now you can find such
reasonably ‘major’ things as a full 3D concert from Kylie Minogue’s
Aphrodite tour, Walt Disney’s G-Force movie, and The Lord of the Dance
with – coo! – Michael Flatley.
It
has to be said that we did experience a few streaming pauses on our
consistent 6Mbps broadband feed with this 3D content, but hopefully LG
will be able to improve the robustness of its streams over time.
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