II dont agree with the "dont expect any updates" head-in-the-sand brigade. In fact I think Forum Websites like this should do more to push back on manufacturers.
OS upgrades are a big deal, and I was pleased to see FlatPanels start the push back a while ago.
from
Samsung Q9FN review - FlatpanelsHD
"Samsung has told us that it has no intentions of updating previous years’ models to the latest Tizen software (version 4.0). It will not commit to updating this year’s Tizen software once the next major version arrives next year either. And regrettably,
Samsung is not alone here. This is a very unfortunate trend in the TV industry. Android TV, Roku TVs, and Fire TVs get updated and clearly there is absolutely nothing obstructing Samsung from updating Tizen each year. "
They have even changed their scoring system:
"
Change in test parameters: Starting this year we will make a change to a test parameter that relates to the
features score, following
years of poor practice in the TV industry.
Unless a manufacturer of a given “Smart TV” can provide FlatpanelsHD with assurance that the TV platform will be updated to the next major version, the feature score will be lowered by 10 points. We hope that our initiative can help highlight the problem, start a discussion, and change the practice.
Samsung has not been able to give us such a guarantee for Tizen. "
Sadly - it didn't work. 18 months on and the big manufacturers haven't budged.
The Luminence Overshoot fix was helped by Vincent and Forbes, and FlatpanelsHD have mentioned the lack of updates - but AVF never say anything.
That may be due to advertising agreements, I don't know. There is a much more open discussion on AVS forum.
As a minimum I want to see
WebOS, GUI and software-only improvements put on previous years
Won't happen but I would like it too.
ATV app on 2018 and before
Ask Apple, NOT LG! We've been over this!
Ask NowTV and get them to publicly prove it's LG's hardware at fault (it won't be). Their responsibility not LG's.
Rightly or wrongly this definitely won't happen, LG and Samsung are mortal enemies, and LG sees the idea of including HDR10+ as an anathema. But on the positive side, it wouldn't look much different to plain HDR10 for us, this is because HDR10+'s dynamic metadata only really makes a difference on low-nit displays anyway, though, not high-nit displays like ours that does 700 nits.