Apps on your tv

None.
All the apps on my G2 i uninstalled as soon as i bought it. All the apps i use are on my 4k firestick, it gets updated more often, the picture and sound quality is better, the connection to my wifi is faster and i can take it anywhere and just use it once i have a wifi connection.
 
I moved away from my Firestick; it would often take a while to open, it kept sticking and crashing and often lost the magic remote connection (so it was another remote to content with) and it used up an HDMI port and electrical socket.

With the TV it's all straight there as soon as I power on. Currently using the following:

NetFlix
Prime
Disney
YouTube
iPlayer
itvX
STV player
4
5
Samsung TV plus

I don't know if there's a quality difference but it all looks good to me. Samsung S90C.


*Added a few more I had forgotten about
 
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  • YouTube
  • Netflix
  • Amazon Prime
  • Paramount+
Samsung (My TV) are a bit crap though, They removed twitch app and you cant install it from their app store which is annoying, Hate it when things just get pulled like that.

I do have a Roku so issue solved but still stupid having a smart tv that has apps pulled on a whim especially after you've purchased it.
 
It's an LG.
prime, Netflix, Disney, iplayer, itv, Apple, YouTube

Irritatingly it doesn't have crunchyroll - >we have to use the ps5 for that
Or 4od - we use the bt/we box for that
 
I couldn't stand my Samsung (Neo QLED Q65QN90A)'s apps. iPlayer in particular just hung and crashed all over the place. So got a Firestick and exclusviely use that these days. the TV is just a screen. On the Firestick, we have the usual TV apps - iPlayer, ITV, 4, then we also have YouTube mostly for the kids and Plex, mostly for the grown ups. Subscriptions come and go depending on whether there's anything on that we want to watch. So Amazon, Discovery+, Eurosport mostly.
 
I've found TV apps normally pretty good for the first few years but can be a bit spotty after several years of updates, although I've not tried to format the tv-maybe the TV version of windows rot :p . Not sure why using a firestick would give any difference to picture or sound quality.
 
theone8181 said:
Not sure why using a firestick would give any difference to picture or sound quality.
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Different versions of apps support different formats, i.e. some might support Dolby Atmos or HDR, others might not, things like that, and apps on widely used devices like Firesticks, AppleTV etc. are likely to get updated before versions of apps for specific TV brands. Plus just how the TV handles different sources, some devices are better at processing the signals than others, it can vary quite a lot.

TBH I'd much rather TVs went back to just being displays and then you can plug in whatever sources you like, but they all want to try and tie you into their UI these days to sell advertising etc. Luckily I'm using a projector and they seem to have generally remained app free (at least the high-end ones).
 
I hate them, and i wish you could still get 'dumb' tv's. they bog down the functionality of a tv with needless crap. in my experience they function ok for a couple of years then get worse and worse until they barely launch. its like building in a feature that will cripple your tv eventually. Let me run dumb mode please.
 
On our LG OLED and a couple of newer Samsung TVs, the app experience is good, so we use the usual Youtube, plex, netflix, prime, disney plus, sometimes spotify and the TV ones like iplayer/itv etc.

On some of the older TVs and a Hisense one, we have firestick and a Roku because the experience is so much better and some apps would not even install.
 
Tavis75 said:
Different versions of apps support different formats, i.e. some might support Dolby Atmos or HDR, others might not, things like that, and apps on widely used devices like Firesticks, AppleTV etc. are likely to get updated before versions of apps for specific TV brands. Plus just how the TV handles different sources, some devices are better at processing the signals than others, it can vary quite a lot.

TBH I'd much rather TVs went back to just being displays and then you can plug in whatever sources you like, but they all want to try and tie you into their UI these days to sell advertising etc. Luckily I'm using a projector and they seem to have generally remained app free (at least the high-end ones).
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TBF I know lg have removed a format on some TVs (think it was DTS), not sure if it came back. I tend to only buy high end TVs so probably why I've not noticed. My c9 I'm using as a monitor is still relatively responsive on apps.
 
Netflix
Apple TV
Amazon Prime Video
Disney
ITV X
BBC iPlayer
Paramount
YouTube

All work well on a recent Samsung TV.
 
My bedroom tv (32 1080p lg) has memory issues with apps even after removing many apps and clearing as much data as possible.

This thread has inspired me to dig the firestick back out and have a crack at that. Cheers ocuk.
 
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I wonder at what point there's going to be a market for a "dumb tv" which is effectively just a big monitor with speakers to just pass through the connection from a firestick/apple tv etc?

TV's just always seem to end up outdated really quickly and never offer the performance beyond the first year. Not really sure why an Nvidia shield from 2019 still performs better than my 2023 Samsung QN95. I get there's some cost impact but technology surely moved on a lot in 4 years!
 
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Martynt74 said:
I wonder at what point there's going to be a market for a "dumb tv" which is effectively just a big monitor with speakers to just pass through the connection from a firestick/apple tv etc?

TV's just always seem to end up outdated really quickly and never offer the performance beyond the first year. Not really sure why an Nvidia shield from 2019 still performs better than my 2023 Samsung QN95. I get there's some cost impact but technology surely moved on a lot in 4 years!
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If 4od worked on my android box that's what my TV would be
 
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I always used Disney+ through the (LG) smart TV rather than Sky, as Sky didn'#t have it in 4k for some reason.

But occasionally it gets choppy for some reason, and you have to either re-install the app, or unplug and plug back in the TV to reset everything.

Just had a look and found that Sky does now include 4k for Disney+, so I guess I'll just use it through the Sky box going forward.
 
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