Thanks for the tip, I'l try media server. Weird that ITV hub doesn't work though.
hello all.
4/5 days ago we bought - LG 55UK6950PLB 55" Smart 4K HDR LED TV - from currys.
i will say i am very happy and impressed with sound quality and even actually sd picture quality (which i was worried about as i seen a lot of people complain in reviews of the tv)
i do find the smart remote hard to get on with, and menus fiddly...like no easy way switching between freesat and freeview.....and at night time in our house i do see noticeable light bleeding......and no way to disable the cursor on the magic remote, right ??
anyway..
i have exactly the same issue as discussed here. full guide epg will not open a channel, unless going the extra step of opening the info / recording button to the side of the channel and opening channel from there.....exactly as a previous poster described here....exactly.
i will add the 999 channel switch doesnt seem to help the issue for me.
currys staff direct me to LG support and no answer from sent email a couple of days back yet.
i have updated the tv firmware to latest available - 04.10.45
so, as this thread hasn't had any recent updates to it....can i ask if any of you resolved this issue.
thanks in advance for any replies.
Freesat preview window can be viewed when looking at programme guide. Highlight left hand column (tv channels column) and scroll down to another channel then press 'ok'. That channel should then appear in the preview window.Going out of my mind with this one and hoping someone here may be able to help;
Recently purchased the LG 55UH850V and attached my ex-Sky dish to the back of the TV as instructed.
All went well, channels appeared and EPG is rich with text content.
However, those familiar with webOS 1/2/3 will be aware of the channel preview that appears in the top left of the EPG which updates for the channel you hover over with the magic remote. A crucial part of the browsing experience.
I do not have this.
At best I get a 1/2 second experience of this working, with both audio and visual - only for it to revert back to what looks like an antenna icon which reads 'download programme information.'
In my area I get exceptionally poor freeview reception, yet having tested it upon my multiple scans have seen it working perfectly well with the one channel I am able to get - E4+1. This would imply it's not a TV issue, but an issue on my tuning/Freesat.
Any genius' here able to shed some light on this? The OCD in me would be eternally greatful!
Selecting a desired channel becomes a real headache in the EPG, involving several clicks. It's nothing like advertised.
Strange that Samsung sets have the same problem. How hard can it be,
Freesat works fine on LG & Samsung TVs - there's good and bad points - I don't think the absence of a thumbnail in GUIDE mode makes much difference tbh and on LGs you can use LIST which has full size video & single key press to swap channels but then it does require pressing exit to remove the EPG where perhaps double click would have been more intuitive.Freesat works fine on Samsung TVs now, even their entry level ones. This is very much an LG issue.
I had last year's model (NU55) and although it didn't do what you described above I'm pretty sure it had a thumbnail when you selected the channel in the EPG. You could then click from there to full screen.On entry level Samsung sets can you have the currently tuned Freesat programme in the background and a preview window of the channel 'hovered' over in the EPG? This is what the OP wanted to happen.
As post #2 implied, you need two sat tuners (and software to enable the function) to do this.
My Sammy with two sat tuners doesn't even have a preview window when I invoke the Freesat EPG. (It does on Freeview and the non-Freesat 'tuner' )
Interesting, I'll check this out.
not necessarily true, I have an LGOLED55C9PLA. And the preview in TV guide sometimes says downloading sometimes not available, other times it’s there for a full 90 seconds, only have two tuners one freesat one freeview.......this TV is a bit weird with the channel guide, sometimes doesn’t populate for 20-30 seconds, my old Panasonic 42” plasma, was perfectly always there.....the higher tech they get the more troublesome......so many tweaks to settings and options I would like to see......given all to LG, but don’t expect anything to change.......You would need a TV with two Freesat tuners to be able to view live content on a different transponder to the one the first tuner is currently using (and the capability for each tuner to demux two channels at the same time from a single Mux). If both were recording at the time from different transponders only channels sharing a transponder with either recording could be viewed.
And me though my new 55" LG (2019 C(9) OLED only has a single satellite feed from the Tuner 1 out from the Foxsat-HDR underneath it. I don't have a recording usb drive attached so limited to Live TV.
No Freeview aerial connected. No point the TV works fine with my twin tuner IP streaming V-box box.
This has built in USB recording though I don't currently use it.
I must say the 1080i Foxsat-HDR output looks much better now when viewed directly on a high end Panny Full-HD TV.
Spoke with LG and they confirmed that the preview window will not work on Freesat. They say they couldn't get it to work properly
On a separate topic... does anyone know how to mount network shares (i.e. NAS) without having to use some form of DLNA?
If anyone is still after a solution to this EPG issue with the Freesat channels, I have a sort of work around. You will need a USB stick. Tune the channels as normal using the Freesat settings, then export the channel list to the USB stick. Open up the channel list on a PC using ChanSort and choose "Modify current list". Scroll down to the bottom of the "sorted channels" windows and delete the Freesat data file as well as the other greyed out items. Save the amended list back onto the USB stick. Import the files into your TV using the same menu as exporting them, but choosing to import from USB to TV. The TV will reboot after 5 seconds and the EPG selection and preview should now work.
I've got an LG E8 and I agree that there's a lot wrong with the platform. I love the picture quality but that's all, so I doubt if I'd buy another LG.well I don’t think I have the option to save channels to a usb pen on my LGOLED55C9PLA. TV, Still trying to get the TV guide to populate on freesat, as I watch it, it starts to fill out a little, then if I don’t keep moving the cursor around it defaults back to today’s programs, leave it long enough and it goes back to live TV, where I have to start all over again, it doesn’t remember previous TV guide information.....this is the very worst thing about this TV, what a shambles, my 20 year old Panasonic plasma had the TV guide instantly always, no downloading TV guide window
what I do now, is research the program time on my IPAD on TV guide, ( which has a 2 week guide write this down and do a manual timer record, again it’s not easy, when setting this up, but getting used to it.....in the schedule recording it says date, but have to open it again to get the stop start time......everything is so complicated, wish I could rewrite the O.S. To make it clearer....think they concentrated so much on picture quality , which is superb, they forgot about everything else
P.S. even L.G.don’t give accurate replies ( when they finally get around to responding ) they said I would NOT get the small video window of the selected TV channel in the top left corner in the TV guide window, as it didn’t have that capability , but it does also the TV is advertise as a twin tuner, well it ISN'T it’s a single tuner capable of receiving two inputs ( one at the time ) Freeview or Freesat, IMO that’s NOT a twin tuner....
Pretty clever marketing (if possibly a tad misleading) if I might make so bold. It fooled you it seems.reddwarf4ever said:what they mean is two tuners (Freeview and Freesat) NOT twin tuner. Very poor marketing
Are you sure this has twin SAT tuners, my LGOLED55C9PLA. Advertised with a twin tuner but in fact it only has a double tuner, so it can access freesat or freeview not both at the same time, fooled me for ages, really thought Twin tuner meant Twin tuner....Guys, I have just bought an LG OLED65W8PLA with twin satt tuners as well as freeview. I have the exact same problem
1. EPG does not work as it should. There is no.preview in the top left preview window.
2. Whilst it does,show the current programmes I cannot choose a programme by clicking on it with the magic remote
3. If I open filters and change from freesat to Freeview and back to freesat the preview window will work showing the current station that I am watching BUT if I choose another station by clicking on it with the magic remote the channel will not be changed and the preview window continues to show the station currently being viewed.
4. If I shut down the guide and reopen it I will, again, have no preview mode
5. All works,as it should in Freeview mode
I have software version 05.10.03 and webOS 4.1.3 5620 goldilocks-glacier.