EETV picutre quality better on Apple tv

[Todd1234]

Does anyone know if the picture quality is better throught EETV box pro or via the Apple tv i currently have the box pro but struggling to see a good quality on sky sports and normal HD programs so trying find a resolution to it

[Minkey1]

@Midnight_Voice 

Ours is a 2023 55C3.

It’s difficult to describe the effect, but I knew exactly what @Chris_B @meant. In addition to overshooting with the “trackball” I sometimes have to point the remote away from the TV to get the cursor *on* the TV. How that can be replicated I don’t know. It just happens 🤷🏼

Any thoughts on the input labelling on my sources?

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@Midnight_Voice 

My OLED is from 2016 and running an earlier version of WebOS that is slow and starting to loose support from app providers.

I have another LG in the bedroom on the newer WebOS (looks like the version that @Minkey1 has), but I don’t like the flow, the adverts, the time it takes to open an app, just all bug me! 🤣

The most fun thing about WebOS is changing the magic remote pointer to a bird.

[Midnight_Voice]

@Minkey1 

1. The way the Box Pro, Box Mini, and the EETV app on the Apple TV do it, and the way YouView boxes have always done it. So WebOS is in good company here.

2/3/4/5. I have exactly the same issue with my UHD player, out on the HDMI input to my LG GX soundbar, being demoted to a mere ‘DVD Player’, and WebOS not offering me that title to edit. For some reason, it will title something coming in  over the HDMI to eARC, but won’t let you retitle it. I only have the one HDMI In on the soundbar, so I don’t have other things coming in over it like you, but I’m quite impressed how WebOS handles your multiple devices there.

6. I have the same issue, only worse, with my LG TVs, as DTS wasn’t supported until the ‘3’ generation of OLEDs, so my DTS BluRays would be dropped to PCM, if I put the UHD player on to the TV direct. I did actually start off with the UHD two outputs split, video to TV which lets WebOS get the device title right, audio to the GX soundbar, which does support DTS, but it was cumbersome compared with putting a single HDMI into the soundbar and letting that feed the video to the TV. Even if that makes it get the name wrong, and I can’t change it, I don’t mind 😛

On a pedantic note, it is only the UHD player with the wrong name, so that is the only device you would need to split the outputs on; but as above, better the way you have it now.

7. Impressive, isn’t it?

8. Yes, as per 2. I wonder why we can edit other input descriptions, but not this one? While the port carries eARC, it is still a conventional HDMI input. I wonder if you could edit it if there was a non-ARC device feeding into it? Maybe I will try disabling the ARC, and then seeing if I can change the name…

[Minkey1]

@Midnight_Voice 

You’ve clarified my thinking there. Thanks. The obvious thing to try is to use the Panasonic video HDMI out to go direct to, say, HDMI1 on the TV, and its audio HDMI out direct to the amp, and see how it displays in the Hub then.

I’ll have a root in my bits box to see if I can test it draping across the front; pulling everything out is half a day’s work.

In my original (lost) post I mentioned that when I first connected the UHD player it did display it as a Panasonic Blu-Ray. Something has changed it, but no idea what. I went on to wonder if there’s a way to make the LG “forget” that source, then trying it again as if it’s being connected for the first time. Who knows.

So, I’ve got a couple of things to try. And in a perverse way I’m pleased we’re in the same boat on editing inputs; it’s not me going wrong 👍

Many thanks. Appreciate your time.

[Midnight_Voice]

@Minkey1 

This is inconvenience bordering on bugginess, but I don’t think I could convince LG to fix a 2020 TV:-

 You can see that in the Universal Control Settings, it almost knows what it’s dealing with on HDMI 2 - it doesn’t say UHD, but never mind…

 but here, it is back to Unknown 😢, can’t be edited (which I think the red dot signifies, with the TV detecting the ARC, which I can’t turn off).

Humph…

[Minkey1]

@Midnight_Voice 

Oh, it’s annoying. Editing inputs, can’t be *that* unusual a user case.

Is the layout different? Is that the 65Gn?

G range. Excellent TV’s by all accounts.

[Midnight_Voice]

@Minkey1 

65GX. Intended for wall mounting with the GX soundbar below it, as shown. After that model, it goes with the G1, 2021, and so on, so expect the G5 this year.

I’ve bought the wireless rears, £150, very reasonable - that’s wireless across the room, the rears are actually wired, to a controller box sitting unobtrusively on a shelf of books at the back of the room. And work utterly seamlessly.

The layout is different, with changes for my G2, and yours is different again.

The only problem I have with it is is it is so damn good, a G5 is unlikely to get approval from the distaff side. I may need to sabotage the 2015 Samsung in the kitchen/diner…

[Minkey1]

@Midnight_Voice 

Excellent. I love this stuff, There’s never a chance I’ll steer it into a discussion about football, but there’s every chance I’ll try and turn it into the WhatHiFi forum. I must stop 😂

Still, whilst we’re on a roll, Is the older Samsung the curved one?

I’ve found a winning strategy with SWMBO is to point out how the kids would enjoy our old-but-still-good kit. Often works 😉

[Midnight_Voice]

@Minkey1 

UE55JS9000, yes curved screen, also 3D. Got the glasses somewhere, probably with the aspirin. Kept smart by a Roku Smartstick+, as Now no longer works, and the BBC have decided I can no longer have UHD on the iPlayer.

On its third One Connect box, after I dropped a bottle of wine on the original (wine fine, box not), the second one couldn’t run Freeview for more than an hour (though Freesat would go on indefinitely, go figure). The third one was off a 65” and said so, but the field is editable, so accurate now.

I do like One Connect boxes though, saves fiddling up the inaccessible back of the TV.

Maybe I should have a sig like yours, though it might be longer than some of my posts 😛

[Minkey1]

@Midnight_Voice 

Oh, now I hated that One Connect thing. Because I have wire OCD, *nothing* can be visible. It all has to go behind. And the unit, tho years old, still serves but is solid oak and weighs a ton even without the kit. So accessing the One Connect thing for a perennial fiddler like me was half a days work 🥵

Plus I don’t like proprietary connectors anyway. Roll on when we change our iPhone 13’s and get back to USB C. Everything I need to connect is connected, accessible, and hidden.

 

Forgive the kitchen kick stand draped so inelegantly across the front. We’ve been installing a new washing machine. (Not networked. Slipped up there🤦🏼‍♂️)

All the AV kit bar the BT/now EE Pro box  has been renewed this yr. For Christmas I got a pair of Cambridge Audio bookshelf speakers, thinking to balance the tone across the front. I knew the dimensions but could not get the aesthetics to work. And in our house, they have to. Mrs Minkey said the gaff looked like a hi-fi shop. I thought that was an excellent look but was overruled. So back they went, and we’ll stick with the little CA Minx’s for now.

At my age, I know which battles to fight. And now I’m owed a major purchase 😏

After today’s exertions I’m airing a nice Malbec to have with the roast beef of Old England. I’ve earned it, and will be asleep by 21:30.