65EF9500 no longer updates

[swissmoon]

Hello,

Our TV no longer appears to update. I am on update 04.25.70 on this  65EF9500 TV, but my other slightly newer LG (UJ7700) is updated to 04.71.00. Contacting LG by email didn’t help at all.  Any suggestions?

thanks in advance.

marisa 

[George Hofmeister]

It may simply be that there is no newer update for your 65EF9500, which I believe is running webOS 2.0 while the UJ7700 runs webOS 3.5.

[swissmoon]

Thanks George. Does that mean I'm out of luck? Bought this new a few years back, thought it was future proof. :-/

[George Hofmeister]

Sadly in tech there is not really anything that is future proof, things change too quickly.  I am not expecting my 2016 49UH650V to get upgraded to webOS 4.0, it would be nice but realistically the hardware probably will not support it.  With any Smart TV there will come a point when you have to decide that if you want the latest smart features the only way you are going to get them is to buy something like a ROKU to get them.

[swissmoon]

Thanks for your answer. We do have a few ROKU’s and a couple of Apple TV ‘s, so going through them works just fine. I guess I’m just born in the wrong time and expect it to be like the Jetson’s where everything blows me away at its efficiency and futuristic abilities, hehe. Alas, we live in a world where things may not live up to expectation. Appreciate the time you took to answer! 

Regards, Marisa