Depressing to buy a TV and find a thread dedicated to it but no interest in it whatsoever! Surely more people must have purchased this superb TV?
Anyway, a couple of questions which I hope someone will answer:
1. The LG B9 can record FreeView content to a USB device such as a memory stick or hard drive as I found when I plugged in both over the weekend.
However, the 16 GB SanDisk memory stick I used was tested by the TV and I was told it wasn't usable (not sure why...) so I plugged in a 1.5 TB 2.5" hard drive into the USB port on the back of the TV (not one of the two on the sides). I was then able to set the programmes - two Rugby 2019 World Cup games - to record but found out later than they had not recorded.
The USB ports are only 2.0 and not 3.0 (which is unbelievable really for a TV in this price range) so did the recordings fail because there was insufficient power (I know USB 3.0 provides more power than USB 2.0)? Also, does the device have to plugged into a specific port - I saw mentioned in the FAQ on LG about the device needing to plugged in port 1 to record?
2. My TV is connected to four devices - an Xbox One X which is connected to a Sky+HD box, a PS4 Pro, a Nintendo Switch and a Sony UBP-X800 BD player. All the devces are detected by the TV - I see a notification pop up in the top-right hand corner to this affect - but occasionally the TV fails to receive an image from them meaning I have to turn the device off then on again. The Sony X800 player does this about 50% of the time, more often when I eject the tray to put a disc in rather than turn on the player first, but over the weekend my PS4 Pro failed to display a picture too (previously it had worked flawlessly). Turning the PS4 Pro off then on resolved it.
I am using the same Antiference 3m certified 4K HDMI cables for all the devices except for the Nintendo Switch (which is a 1080p device anyway), including a 1m version of the Antiference cable from my Sky+HD box to my Xbox One X.
Is this a handshaking issue? Why does this happen? Surely, being digital the signal should either work all the time or fail all the time, not sometimes work and sometimes not?
Are there any settings you can change to make the handshaking between devices more reliable?