Author: Chris Welch
Image: LG
Samsung got a head start, but LG is the latest TV maker to integrate Apple’s AirPlay 2 and HomeKit technologies with its latest premium smart TVs. The company has announced that it will begin rolling out a firmware update tomorrow, July 25th, that adds both features to 2019 OLED TVs, NanoCell TVs, and UHD TVs with ThinQ. Some other manufacturers are extending AirPlay 2 to older models, but LG is rather unfortunately limiting the feature to this year’s TVs only.
LG is claiming to be the “first global TV manufacturer to support HomeKit.” It’s able to say that because, although Samsung added AirPlay 2 and a new Apple TV app to its TVs earlier this year, Samsung so far has not done the same with HomeKit.
The reasoning is pretty...
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Samsung got a head start, but LG is the latest TV maker to integrate Apple’s AirPlay 2 and HomeKit technologies with its latest premium smart TVs. The company has announced that it will begin rolling out a firmware update tomorrow, July 25th, that adds both features to 2019 OLED TVs, NanoCell TVs, and UHD TVs with ThinQ. Some other manufacturers are extending AirPlay 2 to older models, but LG is rather unfortunately limiting the feature to this year’s TVs only.
LG is claiming to be the “first global TV manufacturer to support HomeKit.” It’s able to say that because, although Samsung added AirPlay 2 and a new Apple TV app to its TVs earlier this year, Samsung so far has not done the same with HomeKit.
The reasoning is pretty...
Continue reading…
Continue reading...