Michael Ryan Thomson

as mentioned in other post, i spoke to LG NZ today (actually it was LG Australia), who said there is no decision as yet on OS2.0, whether it will be applied to 2014 models retrospectively or not. The guy didn't exactly sound certain however, and given the rev up i'd just given him about misrepresentation of the product given geographic limitations, maybe he wasn't game to also tell me that yep, a TV that is less than a year old won't get a firmware/software update to improve functionality. Logically I guess that want us to buy a new TV ever year (yeh right).... but I said to him that this would be the last LG i'd buy if OS2.0 was not applied to 2014 models. So, time will tell I suppose. Lets cross our fingers that LG does that right thing on this point. What model Samsung, I saw the new 2015 models at CES have something similar to WebOS, but not the 2014 models - were you able to get a new model already?

Thanks. I tried that, but it is still limited to regional countries, that also don't have access to Netflix for example. I rang LG today to complain about what is basically false advertising in this part of the world - none of the 'smart' functions actually work on their TV's here in NZ, in part LG's doing and in part because NZ is just a backwater really.... and they confirmed there is no way to change the actual region that the TV is set to as this is based on manufacture, they said it's hardware related. I wasn't quite convinced but that was their reasoning - i have tried to use my overseas DNS settings with no luck either. So, suffice to say i'm less than impressed with this TV and the limitations it has imposed by geography that are not spelt out in the marketing campaign.

The lg country codes are evidently hard wired in when shipped in different regions. I've been trying the same just to get Netflix which is t technically available in new Zealand, and no matter what I try I'm still restricted to countries in this vicinity. As far as my reading goes there really is no way to change the actual region code within the set. Sad, stupid, but true. Thanks LG.

Likewise, I got mine on boxing day, if LG do not support such a recent product purchase with a performance upgrade then I will be returning it within my thirty days.... I will contact lg to see if they say this is so of course, but if it is then it goes back and after 5lg tvs this will be my last.

Sam here in new Zealand, I suspect different regions and countries have diff features that work based on local content providers maybe? Similarly disappointed though that what is shown in the promos for the webos tv isn't what you get!

I've been having similar issues, though I am being sneaky and trying via a dns service to make the tv and other electrical things think I'm in the USA rather than new Zealand, where the content market is pretty much zero. The lgtvapps.com page won't accept the login I set up on the lg page when registering the products I got last week, nor when I ask for a password reset will it send anything, on both cases it says my email doesn't exist. So I used a different email address to start again but still same issue. I have to say the user experience with lg is a huge turnoff, and this rubbish about restricting app content by region seems very stupid, I moved from the uk to AUSTRALIA and then here, luckily I bought new tvs in each country but I assume from all this bollocks that a tv bought in Nz won't work in England,or vice versa? Have others had the same problems re logins, location and the lg services?