From there we could basically watch anything we wanted, all in glorious 4K (where available) and, of course, with the aforementioned Dolby Atmos sound. Almost without realizing it, we stopped using the TV as a switch box, not because there were any problems with that, but because we didn’t need to feed much of anything into the TV other than an Ethernet (or Wi-Fi) signal. Among those countless others were some lovely surprises: Apple TV, Plex, Xfinity Stream, and, once it was released, NBC’s Peacock. LG’s webOS app store is robust, and includes apps for all the services you’d expect: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, YouTube, Disney+, and countless others. Oh, and the TV has its own, built-in Atmos support, too, which was another pleasant surprise, especially if you don’t have a Sonos Arc to test. On top of that, the TV’s support for AirPlay 2 is the most reliable video AirPlay implementation I’ve experienced yet, and that includes working with various models of Apple TV. webOS turns out to be a very mature, up-to-date, cared-for platform that truly stands on its own. What happened next was the biggest surprise, though. Sure enough, when the 65″ LG OLED65CXPUA arrived, it functioned spectacularly as the necessary HDMI switch box and I was finally able to experience Atmos sound as Sonos intended. Turns out the only HDMI switch box I could get that would pass Atmos signals is baked inside of a Smart TV, so I asked myself, “who makes the best OLED TV?” and quickly found myself selecting something from LG. This summer, though, I had to suffer through getting a Smart TV in order to test the Dolby Atmos functionality of the new Sonos Arc soundbar. On top of that, the user interfaces I had experienced with Smart TVs were… anything but. I’ve bought a few of them over the years, only to be utterly disappointed by the lack of any functionality even remotely resembling anything “smart”, software updates languishing, features not working after a year, and generally just utter disappointment. I never thought I wanted another “Smart TV” again.
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