#LG TV FIRMWARE HACK UPDATE#
TCL ran through my mobile hotspot data allowance (150MB) while off i enabled the hotspot so it could get and update (the UI was jank out of the box). I think the problem is that the TV-market is saturated by the major brands, and they achieve market-dominance by stealing and selling their users' data, instead of pricing their TVs realistically. Loewe are indeed wonderful TVs totally letdown by their marketing and distribution.įWIW their website (which I linked to above) does have model and spec information, but it's fair to say that they've fallen off the radar for most consumer-TV review sites, and even their user-base forum is predominantly German-language (although any questions asked in English do receive a response).
#LG TV FIRMWARE HACK DOWNLOAD#
The one model I could find I also can't find tech specs for because the download link is broken. > I had never heard of loewe, but after 10 minutes of searching, I still know nothing more about them - there is no pricing available, no idea where to buy them and no list of models. In the bin for you, Alexa.įor some reason I'm unable to reply to maccard - apologies for this misplaced response Also, and this is not a big problem for me, an Alexa can recognise the Loeve as a device but appears unable to use it for sound output. I initially had problems with the overall system integration: I have poor wifi coverage in my house and the TV (Loewe) and sound systems (Linn) wouldn't always work reliably together until I had ethernet wired into my house. I can also immediately cast media to it by a right click from my PC. in my case from a BT smart box) rather than apps or a start screen or similar. The TV is fairly excellent and the hosted apps are fine and not in your face - the TV comes on directly showing its current input (e.g. My overall system uses Linn as the sound output for the TV instead of a Loewe sound bar. I hadn't heard of them myself but came across them when buying a Linn audio system - the audio shop I went to offered Loewe as one of the options for an integrated sound+vision package. (UK here) I have had a Loewe for about two years now. No need to invent extra FUD about what smart tvs can do. IMO, the fingerprinting and advertising are bad enough. Nobody has provided any evidence of TVs actually doing it, it's 100% theoretical. You link to a thread of someone asking if TVs might do this. It's more of a privacy issue with smart phone apps using them, and the studios who add them.Ħ. Audio beacons are hard-coded into the tv content, your smart TV doesn't add them. Most TVs don't have a hidden front facing camera.Ĥ. The linked video raises a minor security issue that web pages you navigate to (on your smart TV, how many people actually do that?) can enable the webcam without you knowing. That TV is an older special model advertised with built-in camera for skype. Not screenshots, it uses fingerprints to recognise content.ģ. It only uploads things when voice recognition is actually active, and puts a big icon on the screen to show this.Ģ. Most of the examples you link don't prove what you claim.ġ. Multiply the number of apps by the number of different smart TV OSs by the number of versions of each and supporting all of them gets old really quickly. They all share the same underlying architecture, main difference will probably be around drivers. If the hardware is good enough to support the latest OS and SDK, refusing to do so is nothing more than planned obsolescence on part of the manufacturer. How many webOS versions do you maintain compatibility with? How do you decide which features you spend time trying to backport to which versions? How do you make it clear to your users that their 2-year-old >US$1k TV won't get the shiny new thing because it's too old?Īnd they shouldn't have to. Maintaining backwards compatibility in this way is not a small undertaking.
> They could maintain builds produced with the older SDK forever
AFAIK nothing stops HBO from supporting older webOS releasesĪssuming that to be the case, nothing is stopping LG to provide an upgraded webOS either.