Official LG XXLM7600 Owners Thread... - Page 94

Just bought a 55LM7600, hope it is all it is supposed be cracked up to be. Got a fairly good dead 1299.00 with a free Energy sound bar I don't need. Waiting a custom cart to match my entertainment center. Will be a few weeks till that is done. I am replacing my 11 year old rptv Mitsu. Pictures to follow.
Edited by Richard Perkins - 2/11/13 at 11:20am

Ok I am a novice at these things.So please be kind.

I tried going through the thread..but may have missed crucial information. After all this is now over 90 pages!

I am trying to look up how to install Amazon app on the LM7600. The link I found talks about setting some server settings.

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1399636/official-lg-xxlm7600-owners-thread/2430#post_22797125

I am not seeing the option on my screen how to access and change those settings. Which one is the 'start menu'?

Any guidance would be much appreciated.

Thanks

To access the In-Start menu , you have to access the hidden service menu. Details for that can be found here:

http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Access_hidden_service_menus_/_modes

What is this Amazon application I keep hearing about? What does it do?

The same as it is anywhere, on a Roku or your Smartphone etc... If you already have a Roku you might not need it on the TV. Being a Prime member I use it all the time.

With the TV doing a quick shutdown then turn on by it self once in a while. I think it's the apps updating, I was able to see my [Service Menu] and it says in the Power status every time I shut off the TV and when it did it on it's own it says "off by no polling" what does off by no polling mean?

Thanks thx1138

I was able to successfully do the hack and get amazon. However lost all the other 'pages' like 3D World and LG Smart world !
Had to do Initial setup again to get everything back...but again lost the Amazon app.

Anyone has the amazon with all the other 'pages'?

Looks like Amazon might be gone now. Redbox is on both of the QA servers. I am on a 6200 though.

NOT gone on my 7600. Every so often the Icon disappears, always has, but you can still click it and watch Amazon videos.
Edited by tampa8 - 2/8/13 at 12:03pm

Amazon might have been disallowed from the standard release because I believe it is an unpredictable CPU hog. Them and HBOGO seem to really make these absurd demands upon my system, and I think it has to do with the continual decryption it's using for DRM. Not sure.

But whenever I think of TV's with more and more "smarts" in them, the more I'm just begging for a stripped down large "raw" monitor, and have everything (including interpolation) handled externally.

I can only tell you Amazon works flawlessly on my 7600, same a Vudu. Only Youtube every once in awhile seems to momentarily freeze, but haven't seen that in awhile.

To answer another post, yes I have everything and Amazon because the instructions being followed are not what my settings are...... As previously discussed due to people possibly bricking their TV if they don't or can't follow the instructions I do not want to post the procedure. (And it's possible someone's TV has different settings for whatever reason)

The menu on amazon was little laggy at first, but a new interface came a week or two ago and it worked great. The video always worked great. I'm going to play around and see if I can get it back. The redbox app that replaced it won't run and it says an update is required. Maybe a new firmware incoming.

Is that really possible? I find it hard to believe there wouldn't be a fail-safe "reset".

I managed to get it back. The icon is messed up but it still works.

What would you get if you don't get the 7600? Will whatever that is be as good overall just without the 3D?

When they say that, they are referring to your head orientation being sideways, as it would be if you were laying on a couch. That's not the case with your bed, or at least I hope not (lol).

Draw an imaginary horizontal straight line that intersects your eyes at the pupil. If that line is parallel to the floor (and hence parallel to the top and bottom of the TV) then things are ok, which is the case with the TV at your feet and you lying on your back. If you want to lay sideways (as if on a couch) and watch 3D tv with your eyes in an up/down orientation, put the TV on its side.

It got confusing to the public for a while there because in the beginning of this technology LG made this absurd claim that passive glasses allow you to see 3D when lying down (with your head sideways), and it was premature and debunked, because the 3D comes from Left/Right images being fed to the left and right eyes from a camera with Left and Right apertures, and this is a horizontal orientation that just cannot suddenly work if the camera remains flat but your head and glasses go sideways. They've since pulled that crap from the propaganda.

Tampa, it seems like getting the Amazon app and maintaining full functionality of the LG apps is a bit more involved which makes me glad I've never fooled with the engineer updates and is why I won't!, I'm worried ill mess up my tv! I do agree that VuDu is flawless, I only wish that Amazon would be available to the general masses!

LG service just replaced the 47LM7600 system board on my tv. But, now when I go to the Home screen, I get static. I don't use the tv's internal tuner. So, all I want is a blank or blue screen when going to the tv's home page. Any suggestions how to fix that? Also, when using a universal remote, is there a way to go to the home screen so that I can access apps like Netflix without having to go to the tuner? Finally, I can't go from the tv's home page to an input like hdmi without having to use multiple steps. Anyone been through this same issue and how did you resolve it?

Just to be clear, Engineer mode really has nothing to do with getting Amazon. Two different things. But anyone who is worried should not be making changes, I agree.

Why are you leaving it on the TV tuner if you don't use it? Simply leave the TV in whatever input you want so there is no "Static".
As for the Home screen, If you mean when you first turn on the TV, a Harmony remote can take you right to the Home screen. Otherwise I'm not sure what going to a tuner first means. If your universal remote does not have the Home button, you need one that does.

I see I now have Red Box Instant added....

I had Amazon back for little while, but it is gone again for me. Redbox and Netflix both require updates so they won't open.

Can't update them? Do you have Red Box or Red Box Instant.. Netflix said it needed to be updated, I did so with no problem, but I do not subscribe.

Again....can someone tell me what the Amazon application does?

Also " Initialisation of Premium" What does this do? Don't want to say "OK" only to find I've mucked things up

They won't update for me. Like I said earlier, I am on a 6200 series though. This has always been the go to thread for me though because the firmware releases, etc. typically go hand in hand.

It basically resets the premium section of the apps. Nothing bad, but if you aren't having any problems then I wouldn't mess with it. The amazon application is for prime streaming videos.

Ya, would expect them to both be able to update if one can. What does it say or do when you try to update?

I'm looking to purchase a sound bar for my LM7600. Can anyone suggest a good one?

I have it mounted on a wall with a mount that telescopes out about 10 inches. Would the sound bar mount to the bottom of the TV frame?

Thanks


I'm tapping, but it still ain't talking!

How can you check the manufacturing date on a set while boxed?

So no real reason to get into the "Premium" option? ("resets the premium section"? )"

Not really sure what's meant by streaming videos.....like youtube or similar?

Mayjer, Do you know what Netflix or Hulu is? That's what the Amazon app does, thousands of movies TV shows, a ton of them free if a prime member.