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BMNC15
Reel Rookie
2 years ago

LG - 65" Class B3 Series OLED 4K UHD Smart webOS TV - ROKU Issues

Hello.  I just purchased a brand new LG TV and new ROKU streaming stick (4k).  The picture quality on the ROKU stick is not nearly as good as the LG channels on their interface.  I worked with LG, they believe that it is a setting issue with my ROKU device.  I would much rather use the ROKU device and interface, the LG interface is not user friendly. 

Any help is much appreciated.  

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  • RokuERey's avatar
    RokuERey
    Retired Moderator

    Hi BMNC15,

    Thanks for getting in touch with us here in the Roku Community!

    We'd like to help. Could you tell us what option you see when navigating to display type from Settings>>Display type? if you could also share with us the differences between them we can take a closer look at it

    Please keep us posted!

    Thanks,

    Rey

    • BMNC15's avatar
      BMNC15
      Reel Rookie

      Good morning.  Thank you for your response.  Here are the display options:

      Automatic (4k Dolby Vision)

      4k Dolby Vision HDR TV

      4k HDR TV

      4k TV

      1080p TV

      720p TV

      Probably the best picture comes under 4k HDR TV (or 4k TV).  Neither of these is quite as crisp as the native apps from LG.  The interface with LG is clumsy, my preference would be to use the Roku device (as I do on all of my other tvs).

      I contacted LG, they suggested that I plug the Roku stick into one of the HDMI 2.1 ports.  Unfortunately, I would need to purchase an adapter to even try that.

      Any additional advice is much appreciated.  Thank you.

      • Strega2's avatar
        Strega2
        Roku Guru

        If “crisp” means that some in-TV sharpening has been added, on many TVs these settings (along with contrast, brightness, saturation, high frame rate etc.) can be set independently for each input.

        Also some streaming services have some video quality and bandwidth options of their own.