How To Use Airplay On Lg Webos Tv

LG's webOS OLED Tv set: The Best Accessory for Your Apple Television set+ Subscription

I never thought I wanted another "Smart TV" once again. I've bought a few of them over the years, but to be utterly disappointed by the lack of whatever functionality even remotely resembling anything "smart", software updates languishing, features not working after a year, and mostly just utter disappointment. On top of that, the user interfaces I had experienced with Smart TVs were… anything merely.

This summer, though, I had to endure through getting a Smart Tv in gild to test the Dolby Atmos functionality of the new Sonos Arc soundbar. Turns out the only HDMI switch box I could go that would pass Atmos signals is baked inside of a Smart Boob tube, so I asked myself, "who makes the best OLED Tv?" and speedily found myself selecting something from LG.

Certain plenty, when the 65″ LG OLED65CXPUA arrived, information technology functioned spectacularly as the necessary HDMI switch box and I was finally able to experience Atmos sound every bit Sonos intended. It was glorious. What happened side by side was the biggest surprise, though.

This LG TV isactually smart. webOS turns out to be a very mature, upwardly-to-appointment, cared-for platform that truly stands on its own. On meridian of that, the Idiot box's support for AirPlay 2 is the nigh reliable video AirPlay implementation I've experienced yet, and that includes working with various models of Apple Tv.

Oh, and the TV has its own, built-in Atmos support, too, which was another pleasant surprise, specially if you don't have a Sonos Arc to exam.

webOS

LG's webOS app store is robust, and includes apps for all the services you'd expect: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Disney+, and countless others. Among those endless others were some lovely surprises: Apple Telly, Plex, Xfinity Stream, and, once information technology was released, NBC's Peacock. Almost without realizing it, we stopped using the Telly as a switch box, non because at that place were any bug with that, merely because we didn't need to feed much of anything into the Tv other than an Ethernet (or Wi-Fi) signal. From there nosotros could basically watch anything we wanted, all in glorious 4K (where available) and, of course, with the aforementioned Dolby Atmos sound.

Sure, we occasionally fire upward the TiVo to watch something it has recorded, simply we just as oftentimes let our (mandatory-to-have-with-our-programme) Xfinity X1 box record something and but lookout that via the webOS Xfinity Stream app directly via the TV. Live TV is also supported that way.

The only time I turn on my Apple TV now is when I desire to use an app on there that's non bachelor on my TV itself: the WWDC app for videos, Testflight to test something for a developer, the "Apple Events" app to watch special events (though YouTube has those, too, now), and the occasional Apple Arcade game on Apple Goggle box.

For almost of our viewing, though, the Idiot box speedily became our preferred streaming device, which made things super-elementary. Smart Tv set for the win! At to the lowest degree when that Smart TV is from LG.

What well-nigh Samsung?

Because of the pandemic, we didn't practise whatsoever "normal" vacation travel to cities or other places-of-interest. Nosotros did, nonetheless, want to get away with the four of united states of america, which only meant renting an AirBnB in some (other) remote corner of New England and enjoying some lockdown time together "over there". The scenery was different. Nosotros had a lake exterior our back door. But Tv was withal important for those evening wind-down activities… like binging a show together or watching a motion-picture show.

The AirBnBs nosotros wound upwardly in both had new Samsung TVs. "Perfect," I thought, "I get to exam and compare." Samsung's Smart TVs also have the Apple tree TV+ app in their stores, but they don't have Peacock. They also don't have anything shut to the simplicity of the user feel of LG's webOS. Managing apps on those came with a much more hard learning curve for us, and this was all but a few weeks after we adapted to the webOS on the LG Tv set. It was all still fresh in our minds.

You can make 'em both piece of work, only the Apple tree-esque simplicity of LG'southward webOS beats Samsung'due south offering for the states every twenty-four hours of the week.

AirPlay and HomeKit

Speaking of Apple tree-esque, the LG Smart TV supports both AirPlay ii and HomeKit. We've always had hitting-or-miss experience streaming from our iPhones to our Apple TVs. Streaming to the LG Tv set is frictionless, and we find ourselves using AirPlay for those quick little, "hey, allow me show y'all something" moments when we're all in the living room.

As listeners of Mac Geek Gab know, I've recently dug dorsum into using HomeKit proper (HOOBS is nifty for those devices which don't natively support HomeKit!), and having the LG TV every bit a excellent citizen on my HomeKit network is stellar. Book, ability, input source, and more can be controlled and automatic forth with everything else.

It's always delightful to find a non-Apple device which integrates with my Apple tree "network" like a native. LG's webOS makes their TVs do simply this.

HomeKit screens from iPhone showing LG webOS TV — Adding the LG Television set to HomeKit is a snap, and then you can configure, automate, and trigger to your center'south content.

Let's not forget that OLED Screen

Some would accuse me of burial the lede, just hopefully you understand that my path into this world here meant I had different priorities. Of course, I chose LG because of all the keen things I knew to be academically (and anecdotally) truthful most their OLED panels. Experiencing 1 in its 65″ glory at home, though, is some other matter entirely.

We came from a decade-plus of Panasonic Plasma displays (LED's viewing angle just doesn't work for our living room), and were quite spoiled in that globe. The starting time week or two with the LG OLED screen was nigh distracting because of the increased realism. Yeah, there'south a quality difference, of course, but the event is that everything but looks that much more real. It's almost every bit if the perceived depth looks more 3 dimensional because of the enhanced clarity and dissimilarity of the OLED screen.

To this day, months afterwards, I'yard still oftentimes amazed when I plow this affair on and see the image again. Yous definitely won't become wrong selecting an LG OLED console for your adjacent TV, that's for sure.

Realistic Affordability

Our family goal was to coast through on the last of the Panasonic Plasmas until OLED came downward into our price range. At $2,300 for the 65-inch version (or $4,000 for the 77-inch version), these prices are realistic and affordable if this is what you're looking for.

And I highly recommend you take a expect!