George Hofmeister

Maybe it is rolling out geographically, last time I checked it was not available in the UK. However, I will check today and report back.

Hi Lauris, Have a look at this chart: http://en.tab-tv.com/?page_id=7111

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please for Pete's sake new users take a look at the search function at the top of the page, it will search the whole site for you and answer your questions without you even needing to make a post saving you time and effort. https://www.lgwebos.com/search/?q=hotstar However, that said, there is no Hotstar app because they have not produced one, although they are working on it but it is months behind schedule. However, that said, Hotstar have (apparently) updated/upgraded their website so that it works with the included browser (which does not support Adobe Flash - if you want to know why not please search the forum - and has its own JavaScript standard and did not work with some esoteric scripting that Hotstar used), and many users report that it works well for them.

Market share may well have a lot to do with it, Samsung's sales far outstrip those of LG so content providers may just concentrate on providing apps for the biggest platforms. It could be Samsung has the budget to liaise with content providers and write the apps themselves. Or, it could be LG are not good at getting across how easy the webOS platform is to programme for, or the content providers backend systems are not gears towards open standards and just cannot cope with web 2.0. In short probably 101 reasons. If you want an app for the platform then you need to make a concentrated effort to badger content providers in to producing them.

Check if there is a newer update on the LG website for your particular model, if there is it should install via OTA updating if you have that turned on. If it does not come via OTA updating then you would need to manually install it via a USB drive. If there is no update then you will be stuck on the version currently installed.

It will be available once YouTube/Google/Alphabet/Whatever they are calling themselves week get around to producing an app for the platform. LG do not write the apps, it is down to the content providers much in the same way Google & Apple do not write every app for their respective platforms.

Hi MaryAnn, Sadly your LG TV is never going to work exactly like a ROKU device as while they are both capable of streaming media are two completely different devices with disparate interfaces and programming. If you can let the forum know which model of TV you have and the problems you are experiencing the users will try and help you get to the stage where you are able to enjoy your purchase.

Sadly webOS 2 is very outdated now, although you were one of the lucky ones who where at least able to upgrade from NetCast to start with. Unfortunately the hardware technology in TVs is rapidly being outpaced by software developments and upgrades, but as long as the TV still works it can have a device such as a ROKU or Fire stick added to it.

I have emailed MLB.TV via their contact page with the following message: In the last few days there has appeared a pop-up on my LG Smart TV informing me that MLB.TV will soon dropping support for the webOS platform, obviously this is quite a little upsetting for LG users as you still seem to be supporting plenty of other platform. Can you give me a definitive reason why support is being discontinued so that I may let the other members of the LG webOS User-to-User forum I am a member of know? May I suggest that as many other forum member, whether you use the app or not (I myself do not) also contact MLB.TV as well. May be if they see a ground swell amongst LG owners they may reconsider their stance. You can find the contact form here: http://www.mlb.com/mlbtv/help-center/contact-us.jsp Select the category 'Technical Support' and either add your own message or feel free to copy the one above.

Yes other people have noticed: https://www.lgwebos.com/topic/3865-mlb-tv-no-longer-supported-on-lg-tvs/ Users of the app are are going to have to join up in force and make their complaints directly to MLB.TV as LG do not produce or directly support the app.

Sadly if MLB.TV decide that they no longer want to support the webOS platform there is not a lot LG can do about it. All you can do is voice your discontent via MLB.TVs website.

Hi ajmboy, Indeed the internal hardware in TVs out-dates very quickly at the moment, more so than mobile phones. My sister & brother-in-law have LG running the old NetCast OS and they have just added a ROKU box to it as the on-board software is beginning to show its age. Why did they not just buy a new TV? Well the picture quality is still great, it is only 1080p but there again they do not have anything that requires 4K, and more importantly the ROKU only cost £20. I reckon if I can get three years use out of webOS on my 2016 model LG I will be doing OK, if things get really buggy with the OS after that then I will just add a 4K ROKU. For me it is more the quality of the picture that the feature set the TV comes with, I would probably even look to see if LG does a 'dumb' TV next time I need to purchase one.

For all those who bemoan the lack of support from LG when things do not work as expected the following article makes interesting reading: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/smart-tvs-are-dumb/581059/ Personally I have worked in the tech world long enough to already have realised all the points made by the author and have adjusted my expectations accordingly (not just with my LG Smart TV but many other products).

No we cannot tell you when the apps will be available as this is a user-to-user forum and not an official LG board. So as such we do not have knowledge of what individual vendors are doing in the way of producing apps for the webOS platform. If you want an app for a service that is currently unsupported yes let the forum know so other users can gauge if it would be useful to them, but you would need to get in direct contact with the service provider to fully aware that there is a real desire for webOS support.

Hotstar are working on an app, but it is way behind schedule there are plenty of forum threads on the issue. However I cannot comment on the status of Airtel TV & whether they are going to produce an app.

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Hi Gregorio, You may wish to take a look at this thread that is all about down-grading your TV's firmware:

You would be better off asking where Steam Link for webOS is on the Steam forum as they are the ones who produce the software. If they can make it for multiple platform including competitors' TVs then they should be capable of porting it to webOS. https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/0/1692669912400498996/

As with Android & iOS LG are not the ones, by and large, the people who actually create the apps for the webOS platform. So unfortunately it is going to be down to Fox+ to produce the app.

Apparently it does not have Bluetooth: https://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-43LF6300-smart-led-tv See the specs and questions.

All I can suggest is to drop Zee5 a message to see if they can help: https://www.zee5.com/contactus

Glad I could be of some help.

As the owner of a 2016 LG TV I will quite happily sign the petition if you can show me proof that the previous generations of TVs will actually be capable of doing the job. Just saying it can be added via a firmware update does not make it true that the hardware can actually do the job.

But it is not really a complaint is it. What you mean is that it is a feature you would like that is not currently available on the TV. If of course this was the defining feature of a TV why did you not investigate first and purchase a brand that offers such a quality? Just because it is 2019 does not guarantee any product will have what you want baked in to it, doing research before you buy something would be my advise. Hope you find that advise more helpful. When you find a manufacture that does have this feature please let the forum know for those who may be interested. Also it is a television... You know to watch TV on otherwise with no tuners it would be a monitor...

You are going to have to badger Zee5 as they are the ones responsible for producing the app.