Отзывы о Телевизор LG 50UN80006LC 2020 LED, HDR

Unlike the first reviewer, the lack of iPlayer on the TV doesn't bother me since it's provided by my Virgin box. I appreciated the fact that it didn't force me to go through TV set-up, since I haven't used an aerial for years. As soon as I plugged in the Virgin box, it identified it and was ready to use. It also quickly identified, and connected to, my home Wi-Fi network and appears to have a very good connection. Most complicated and time-consuming part of set-up is attaching the stand.

I considered deducting a star for the very reflective screen, which is not ideal in daylight, but, apart from my very first flat-screen TV which was like a black-hole sitting in the corner, I haven't seen any that aren't reflective.

Being used to having to listen to TV through an old home-cinema system, because my previous TV had appalling sound, I might be a little over-critical of the sound from the internal speakers. It's perfectly adequate and the main reason I chose this brand was they generally have good sound. There are a range of different sound output options available and I haven't experimented with all of them yet.

Picture output also has a range of options, which it will demonstrate as you scroll through. I'm settling for either Standard or HDR Effect at the moment, but I might see what this is like in other versions later as well. Almost every element is adjustable and I might see if increasing the back-light will help the daylight reflection problem. Current setting is very clear in my, not particularly bright, night-time room viewing.

Remote has immediate access to Netflix and Amazon Prime, so I might not even need to use the other home-screen options for a while. Using the cursor that appears on the screen takes a bit of getting used to, and a steady hand, but the remote responds to more familiar direction and selection control more often than you expect. The remote supplied is the "LG Magic Remote", but I haven't got used to trying voice-control yet. You can install Alexa, but I already have it in the room so it could get confusing.

My main reason for choosing this, rather than last year's model, was its central stand. Most other models appeared to have feet too widely spaced for the table-top it's on. Instructions say you should have 2 people to move it, which could have been a problem during lockdown, but maybe that's because they cover larger models as well. 43 inches was fine for me and it must be half the weight even of my previous TV, which wasn't that ancient.

Only been using it for a few days, but very happy so far.

I'm not writing a review about picture, sound, etc., there are plenty of those reviews. Instead, even if niche, I'm writing about this TV's failure to stream music, wired, from a Windows 10 laptop. Perhaps I'm in a minority, but still a big number who prefer all-wired. Out of the box I could stream video files stored on my laptop to the TV with Windows Home Network, but nothing it seems, nothing at all, can get the TV to play music files sent to it from a PC! Even though the video files that it will play come from the same PC with the same permissions set for both! This is unacceptable, hence my one-star rating. Not being able to stream music, wired, to a Smart TV is a bad basic fault and I will probably send the TV back for it.

I've lost a lot of hours trying to stream music from my PC to this TV since it arrived, even though streaming music and video from a PC to a Smart TV isn't a big ask in 2020. The TV takes over 2 minutes trying and failing to read music sent to it from Windows File Explorer, repeatedly failing to read the PC's 'send' command. And when after that 2 minutes the TV finally does decide to play music, IT WILL ONLY EVER PLAY ONE TRACK and then stops! It puts Windows Media Player into pause mode! So, great, hey - the TV can only ever play ONE music track, and even that only after a 2 minute wait! It is this LG TV's fault because I could stream music to my previous not-even-Smart TV using a WDTV streaming box as intermediary. Also proof it's the TV's fault is that it WILL play my music because it plays one track of those sent, even though it's only one.

And in the 2 minutes the TV takes before it plays just ONE music track, how annoying is this? Every 20 seconds 3 things keep repeating on the TV screen. First, the TV's 'music player' appears (wanting to play) then disappears, then there are 2 successive failure messages, the first being "The network is not connected. Please check the connection state" and the second is, "This function is not available now" - these 3 things just repeat 8 or 10 times before it deems to play just ONE music track. In point of fact, not willing to be beaten, I found a workaround. Take say, my folder with 20 Beatles tracks as an example. I import all its 20 tracks into Audacity (a free program that's great for this) and cut and paste them into one long track. Then with that stored in my Beatles folder (called 'The Beatles All Tracks') I send that to the TV so it has no choice but to play all 20 tracks as they're now all one file. But why should I have to prat about doing this just to hear my music? It's time consuming. I'm halfway through doing this to my 300 folders of around 3000 music tracks. (And of course, storage space needed will be double).

The TV's music player is underwhelming, inadequate and unworthy of the name. It's a small square, bottom-right of the TV screen, about 3" in diameter which 'times out' and disappears within 2 minutes before even a single track has played out. At that point it is replaced by an even smaller, even more bland circle, with just a music note icon on it - no information at all, not even track name or track length, and not even a progress bar! When the TV's 'music player' disappears, a prompt suggests to bring it back 'press volume on the remote'. When you do that, oh yes the 'music player' comes back, but it will only disappear again 2 minutes later! This is VERY, VERY POOR. I at least want to 'track playing', 'track name' and 'track length'.

Something else is there's NO user manual. You're told it's online. It isn't. There, there's just a tiny amount of basic stuff. And you're told all the info you need is on the TV. NO it is not. Some is, but only a tiny fraction of what would be in a normal user manual. You're without the comprehensive instructions a manual provides, you can't just check the manual's contents for what you need. And how about this? Nowhere is there a single picture or diagram of the connections panel at the back of the TV!! Not on the paperwork with the TV, not online and not on the TV's 'Help' screen. So making connections with various external devices, units, or boxes, you are forced to make them blind, while the TV is in situ, craning your neck trying see what's there and where, whilst wielding a torch in your mouth (you need both hands to not to topple the TV) and you strain to see and read the inputs/outputs from an acute angle, all because LG don't bother providing you with a picture with a key, of the connections panel. The TV's onscreen help may have some info on WHAT you can connect, but it never shows you WHERE the inputs/outputs are or WHAT they look like. This is mind boggling nonsense and HOSTILE to any purchaser. (Tip: Take a photo of the connections panel at the back of the TV before you put it in place).

Finally, more complicated sh** I will try to help with. Feeling forced into it, as per LG's instructions, I installed SmartShare at the PC end. I finally felt forced to do this because the TV was taking so long to read 'send' commands. Personally I prefer to avoid apps if possible, I mean - come on, why isn't this c**p already on the TV so I don't have to put it on my PC? TV screen advice says download/install SmartShare in the media folder you want to send. That's head-scratching, because I want to send my videos and music from the external hard drive they are stored on. So I downloaded SmartShare on to that hard drive and here's the thing. SmartShare made no difference (at first). AHA! WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW is that a week or so later, on its own, SmartShare installs a zip file on the HDD. No doubt this is necessary for SmartShare to work, but how are you supposed to know SmartShare won't be ready for a week? That's great as well, hey? And SmartShare is a total fail anyway. It reads and presents media on the TV's screen not separated in the folders they are in, but instead, just lumps everything together in one view. So (useless, yes) all music and video, is in just one big alphanumeric lump. Just thousands of items with everything that has a prefix number, 01, 02, etc., preceding EVERYTHING identified by text. So media on the TV shows masses of 01s, followed by masses 02s, and so on. Think about this. Every music file I have has an
01 track, so all the 01 tracks (the first track from every music file) shows together in this list, followed by all the second tracks called '02'. How ridiculous and utterly useless.

So in summary, even with SmartShare, I'm still in the same position I was in at the start, with the TV only ever playing ONE music track and then stopping, pausing, Windows Media Player. THIS is not SMART TV. Or (and I'm suspicious about this) manufacturers want it this way, they don't want you streaming YOUR music, they want you to pay and subscribe to online music. The old, "you can rent everything but you cannot own anything" game. Anyway, I've defeated them. I'm not interested in that streaming junk, and it was always going to be that way. I don't want even a billion online mp3s. I want MY stuff, the tracks I want, prefer, and have collected (in lossless format) for decades. Online music streaming is for the birds who want it, but not all of us want to be ripped off by it and the TV should stream anything sent to it. At once.

SOLUTION. Okay, I've got it, music streaming is all working now without delay, now all my wav music is typed up in Windows Media Player. You do NOT need LG's SmartShare whatsoever. You may need to turn streaming on, beneath WMP's 'Stream' heading at top of WMP. Open Windows Media Player. Open the 'Play' tab. Find your file (album) in WMP, and select (highlight) the tracks you want to play and drag them over to the 'Play' list on the right. Now they should immediately play to the TV. If any problem, hover the cursor over the two icons at the top of the 'Play' tab to identify which of the two is the 'Stream to' option and press 'Stream to', and choose LG TV in the list that appears.

By today's standards it's a basic TV.
- The magic remote is included - this isn't too clear in the description but it's there (for the 2019 model anyway)
- Freeview play doesn't seem as good as the regular version of freeview - I mistakenly thought they were the exact same thing - you might want to compare the two if it's important to you.
- Someone else mentioned (and it's the most annoying thing for me) is that you need to watch tv directly facing you - from any other angle it's ridiculously wishy washy? blurred? .... hard to explain but I'd pity anyone not having the best seat for viewing! - luckily I live alone :)
- I'm not a techie person but it was easy to set up and to sync my cordless headphones etc - all quite self explanatory.
- I'm not sure if it's good value for money because I don't watch it a whole lot, but I do know I was disappointed when I switched it on and that despite having the option to change the screen mode (cinema,sport etc) none of them seem quite right - either too bright or too dark ... greenish even.
- Delivery was great (Amazon) and driver brought it into my living room for me which was nice - in saying that, out of the box it's feather light! - I can easily lift it when I'm dusting etc and I'm no spring chicken

Screen uniformity issues, light bleed on the edges and looks like an led light behind the panel is not working.
not really what you would expect from a £650 TV in 2019.....

Picture and sound are great. The setup wizard seemed very straightforward until it insisted that my ancient Bluray player was a set-top box and completely failed to find my actual set-top box (BT Vision) I had to set it up manually which was not intuitive at all and now the TV is constantly asking me if I want to turn on the set-top box every time I turn it on.

Plugged in the Airiel and it found all the channels very quickly. Then started to set up the apps. Very inconsistent behaviour, some allowed you to use the pointer to click on the virtual keyboard, some would only allow you to scroll about using up down left right. Then I noticed iPlayer wasn't in the list, then I noticed All4 wasn't in the list either.
After much messing about setting up accounts on the LG website and finding the UK app store, I could finally search for the apps on to find that neither are supported on the 55UN81006LB. Funnily enough, the paid-for service Britbox is.

Is this some kind of conspiracy to get me to subscribe to yet another service to watch the TV i am already paying my license for?

Oh and that smart remove is a pain, the voice search feature button is exactly where you would expect to enter/ok button to be so you constantly accidentally activate it. When you remember its actually the mouse scroll wheel thing then when you press it you sometimes accidentally scroll it activating the mouse pointer, frustrating beyond belief!

Gonna give it a couple of days to see if the pros outweigh the cons but I am seriously thinking I should return it.

I have ordered after the Prime Day deals but the price was still reduced. There were other TVs with better prices and similar features but having LG for years without any issues, I decided staying loyal to the brand is the best solution to avoid disappointment. I have not tried Alexa yet but all the basic features are brilliant, especially the remote control that can be linked with other connected equipment.

This review is for the 2019 UM7500PLA model. I say this because a lot of the information currently on this page, from the product description, to the user reviews, to the Q&A section is for the 2018 model and there are several significant differences.

1) The 2019 model DOES come with the Magic Remote. You do not need to purchase this separately.

2) The 2019 model DOES allow Alexa to turn on and off the TV, although that's about the limit of her usefulness here (more on that later)

3) I've not noticed any of the light bleed or burn-in issues others have reported, yet.

4) This has 4 HDMI ports, not 3. It also has two USB ports, optical/toslink output, some RCA connectors and bluetooth. It does not have a headphone jack, which may or may not be a concern.

The TV is pretty much what you'd expect for a mid-range 4K TV. Picture quality is pretty good overall, there's a variety of customisation options for colour, contrast, etc. It does support HDR (which is far more impressive than 4K itself IMHO). The distance between the feet is about 1m. You need a hefty space to put this TV on, or you'll need to buy an aftermarket stand as I did.

Some negatives:

Alexa integration is pretty poor. It takes a lot of faffing about, including enabling both LG Thinq Alexa skills to get the functionality working, and even then, it's not great. If you've ever owned a Fire Stick, and found Alexa's ability to link to an Echo and then launch apps, find programmes across multiple services, and all that lovely stuff convenient, you can forget about it here. She doesn't even know how to launch the Prime Video app. If you ask her to find a specific programme like you can on the Fire Stick, she might occasionally say 'Here's what I found' and nothing happens.

If you're running through a Sky box (and presumably other types of STB), Alexa doesn't seem able to pause, rewind, etc. although the Magic Remote can do this manually.

If you have a hard-of-hearing family member, LG has unfortunately removed the ability for the TV to output audio to two separate devices at once UNLESS one of those devices is the TV's own speakers. My previous LG TV, a ~2016 model, with a headphone jack, could output to the headphones and a soundbar at the same time. With the headphone jack now removed, it doesn't seem possible to do this without aftermarket products, even if you hookup headphones to the RCA connections.

Some of the default video settings can hurt more than help. Trumotion, for example, has limited use but a lot of the default profiles have it enabled by default. Turn off in Advanced Picture settings if you're getting the Soap Opera effect.

Positives, and room for improvement:

TV is very fast. Apps don't take forever to load, and although WebOS is a little unintuitive in places, it's easy enough to get the hang of. You will probably find yourself 'Erring' through menus early on, trying to find certain functions, but soon it becomes pretty clear how to do what.

The Magic Remote, a sort of Universal-remote lite, is very useful. The pointer can be a little temperamental, but being able to control your TV, Sky box, Xbox, soundbar, and other devices too (supports Fire Stick) is very helpful. I find the buttons are a little compact for my stubby fingers, but that's a minor issue.

Image quality is very good. HD is very clear, the colours are vibrant and sports, movies, games, etc. all look fantastic. Obviously, 4K looks good - although I don't find HD to 4K to be a massive leap - but the HDR is what shines. Watch some of the Netflix Originals, like Stranger Things, in 4K HDR and you should be very impressed, especially during the darker scenes. It really helps bring out the mood of the lighting.

Well this is disappointing, I've had this TV for 2 months. Overall I was pretty happy with it. Nice picture, better than average sound and nice features. Then go to switch it on and no picture but sound and a blinking LED. After some research this turns out to be a fairly common problem across the brand.
The best bit is I have to PAY to send it back and get it fixed. Sure I don't have to pay for the repair. But being told to expect to be without my TV for 2 weeks and have to pay to send it back to get fixed is a bit of a cheek.
Wont be buying this brand again.