LG will provide system updates for the 2014 webOS TV for free

Once it is racked up and replaced by a newer model, it will be even harder to get a system upgrade. However, LG recently made a rather surprising decision: They will launch a webOS 2.0 system upgrade for their 2014 smart TVs, and the entire upgrade will not charge any fees.

In fact, LG has launched a new smart TV with webOS 2.0 preinstalled this year, but last year's smart TV system version has remained at webOS 1.0. The upgraded webOS 2.0 system will bring a lot of new features to the old LG smart TV. The most important thing is that it can increase the response speed of the old smart TV by 1.5 times. This will greatly improve the user experience for frequently interacting TVs. It is understood that LG will provide system updates for the 2014 smart TV equipped with a webOS 1.0 system worldwide in the second half of this year.

Although the same is used as a digital product equipped with an intelligent system, the frequency of system update of smart TV products is far inferior to products such as smart phones or tablet computers. TV manufacturers seem to lack the incentive to continue to optimize smart TV products that have already been sold. Especially when a television product no longer appears in the store, it is less likely that it will get system updates.

Compared to LG’s free strategy, Samsung provided an opportunity to upgrade the old smart TV to the new Tizen OS system. However, the upgrade is fee-based, and based on past experience, the upgrade cost is not low.

Although LG is highly popular with consumers, if you plan to buy a smart TV, we still recommend that you choose a regular TV and a separate smart set-top box. Because the set-top box allows ordinary TVs to get almost the same functionality as smart TVs, and their system update frequency is much faster.


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