LG Electronics is very keen on offering its customers a more enjoyable and intuitive content discovery experience.
This explains why the LG Smart TV has evolved and undergone enormous changes over the years. The most notable change is its Linux-based operating system that was developed first in 2014 by LG themselves and is currently available only on the company’s range of smart TVs. WebOS 6.0 is the latest version. It was released in January 2021.
The operating system supports voice commands for both Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, making TV management and searching across streaming services, the internet, and broadcast channels easier than ever before. Here is a list of what the LG Smart TV has to offer and how you can harness them to get the most and the best out of your TV
User Interface
The home screen is designed to enhance usability and to meet the needs of viewers’ changing content consumption habits. The Home screen also provides faster access to the most frequently used apps and streamlines content discovery with recommendations based on the user’s preferences and viewing history. All displayed full-screen to show preferred content and related information at one glance. In short, it acts as a central hub for settings and the greater webOS ecosystem.
The Magic Remote
One of the best things to happen to webOS is LG’s Magic Remote. Magic Remote offers simpler controls, especially when using voice recognition with LG’s multi-AI offerings of LG ThinQ, Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant. LG’s Magic Remote makes navigation much easier with its point and click functionality. The pointer moves as you move the remote, just like you would use a mouse on a PC. This makes it much easier to type text on an LG TV.
The magic remote is slick, easy to hold and use, and offers more user-friendly features including faster connections between the TV and other devices and hotkeys for accessing popular content providers such as Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.
Meanwhile, webOS TVs can be operated wirelessly without a remote. To navigate a webOS TV with your phone, you’ll need to install the LG ThinQ app on your Android or iOS devices.
Magic Tap
Magic Tap, a one-touch NFC function on the Magic Remote, provides instant access to a host of exciting viewing possibilities. By simply touching an NFC-enabled smartphone to the remote, viewers can share content from their phones to the TV or vice versa. Users can view content stored on their mobile phones on their LG TVs while continuing to use their favorite smartphone apps and features.
Magic Explorer
Magic Explorer, an enhanced version of LG’s Magic Link, delivers informative content related to what’s showing on-screen so viewers can learn more about the actors, locations, and other items of interest in the movies and shows they’re watching. The content-dependent feature also delivers the easiest and friendliest shopping experience for products appearing across select broadcast channels and LG TV services including Live TV, Gallery, Settings, and TV Guide by changing the color of the cursor whenever Magic Explorer has information to share.
Next Picks
Next Picks feature used Artificial Intelligence to analyze viewers’ preferences and discover more content suited to their tastes. Using viewing history data, Next Picks can recommend two live programs from broadcast or set-top box offerings as well as one VOD title or app that viewers will find most to their liking, saving viewers the time and hassle of finding what to watch next.
Apps
webOS TVs come pre-installed with many popular streaming apps such as YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play Movies and TV, and more. Moreover, there are over 600 apps available for download in the LG Content Store. You, therefore, get to follow up on the latest shows and movies, music, news, documentaries, sports, weather, kids content, recipe. The list is long.
It is right to say that with the webOS, LG is demonstrating its commitment to offering services, products, and technologies that respond to the needs and want of its valued customers.
