LG telly default input

On 18/01/2013 17:31, R. Mark Clayton wrote:
"Ian" wrote in message
...
In message , CD
writes

I used to have an LG, and there was a setting in the menu where you could
tell it to blank inputs with nothing attached, when you cycled through
them.

My current LG greys out the inactive ones.

You can also name them.

That is my recollection of my Mum's LG too. IIRC that keeps its last
input over switch off/on.
--
Phil Cook

Brian Gaff wrote:
Interesting several charities for the elderly and disabled have raised the
issues presented by new versions of what were once simple devices like
radios and tvs that have an interface very hard to operate for those who
have not grown up with them.

One of my gripes with the Web Accessibility Initiative (whose
publications tend to be used as the basis of legislation, or as legal
definitions of good practice, in relation to web page accessibility) is
that they tend to consider this to be outside the scope of formal
disability and therefore the narrow definition of accessibility they
use. I think the problem for them is that businesses are just not
prepared to design for such a market so try and exclude it from what is
legally imposed on them.

The elderly don't buy lots of mainstream consumer products, so are not
of great interest to marketers.

Add the failing eyesight of older people and you have a recipe for denying
access to a whole group of people. Interestingly the mobile phone maker

Blindness, in web terms, is the one disability for which everyone seems
to be prepared to make some concessions.

Doro, have seemingly made a pretty good business out of selling phones to

Doro market landline phones, as well as mobile phones. I doubt that
they actually make them.

these people that do what they say on the tin, nothing to complex, big
displays and buttons etc, its a great pity that someone does not do this
with the other forms of modern stuff.

I think you will find that Doro actually sell to the younger relatives
of such people, and the web sites that market them are likely to be of
limited use to the end user. That is not to say that the products
themselves are not good for the target end users.

Unfortunately this is a market where you can charge well over the odds
(although I seem to remember that it is often the retailers that sell
Doro at very high margins, rather than the products being very expensive).

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:27:32 -0000, Woody wrote:

With respect maybe you should talk to your father rather than
make assumptions. You never know he might grab the idea is
seconds?

I do, on a daily basis, I have spent may hours trying to get him up to
speed on various things to no avail. When he worked he could type quite
well, trying to get him to use a keyboard nowadays has failed.

He's spent the last 10 years switching on a CRT & it goes straight to the
Sky box output, he's even said to me he's not as sharp as he once was.

Sorted the Telly issue now, the old SCART was still plugged in, all unused
inputs greyed out.

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:31:55 -0000, R. Mark Clayton wrote:

My current LG greys out the inactive ones.

You can also name them.

As indeed does my Dad's, the SCART from the SD Sky box was still plugged in
so presumably it went to that (not the aerial as I was told). Unplugging it
greyed it out, very good feature.

CD

CD wrote:
My 83 year old dad had an ageing 32" CRT that he had got to grips with over
the years that recently died.
I stuck in a 42" LG, which he was over the moon with, into this was plugged
his SD Sky box via scart (remember them) which cheerfully switched the
telly to AV1 automatically. The Sky box started freezing so my brother put
a spare Sky HD box on via HDMI, all was fine apart from him getting his
head round the different Sky interface.

Problem is when he turns it on of a morning it defaults to antenna input &
he doesn't have one.

He can just about do power on/off & volume, but changing inputs is alien to
him & he's of an age where taking in anything new is difficult.

Is it posssible to make the LG remember HDMI 1 after power down? I have 2
Toshibas that stay on the same input, I would have thought other brands do
the same.

I'll be going there in a couple of hours, but wondered if there was an LG
owner on here who knew what to do?

Thanks

CD

At 83, the chances are he won't appreciate HD (although I could be wrong).
Does the new sky box have a scart output? Would seem to be the obvious
solution.

Tim

"Tim+" wrote in message
...
CD wrote:
My 83 year old dad had an ageing 32" CRT that he had got to
grips with over
the years that recently died.
I stuck in a 42" LG, which he was over the moon with, into
this was plugged
his SD Sky box via scart (remember them) which cheerfully
switched the
telly to AV1 automatically. The Sky box started freezing so my
brother put
a spare Sky HD box on via HDMI, all was fine apart from him
getting his
head round the different Sky interface.

Problem is when he turns it on of a morning it defaults to
antenna input &
he doesn't have one.

He can just about do power on/off & volume, but changing
inputs is alien to
him & he's of an age where taking in anything new is
difficult.

Is it posssible to make the LG remember HDMI 1 after power
down? I have 2
Toshibas that stay on the same input, I would have thought
other brands do
the same.

I'll be going there in a couple of hours, but wondered if
there was an LG
owner on here who knew what to do?

Thanks

CD

At 83, the chances are he won't appreciate HD (although I could
be wrong).
Does the new sky box have a scart output? Would seem to be the
obvious
solution.

Tim



You don't have to have HD to use a HDMI connection. My Panny is
only 1080i but I run it for HD from the cable box at 720p and is
quite OK. With no upscaling the picture still looks better though
on SD.



--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

"Woody" wrote:
"Tim+" wrote in message
...
CD wrote:
My 83 year old dad had an ageing 32" CRT that he had got to
grips with over
the years that recently died.
I stuck in a 42" LG, which he was over the moon with, into
this was plugged
his SD Sky box via scart (remember them) which cheerfully
switched the
telly to AV1 automatically. The Sky box started freezing so my
brother put
a spare Sky HD box on via HDMI, all was fine apart from him
getting his
head round the different Sky interface.

Problem is when he turns it on of a morning it defaults to
antenna input &
he doesn't have one.

He can just about do power on/off & volume, but changing
inputs is alien to
him & he's of an age where taking in anything new is
difficult.

Is it posssible to make the LG remember HDMI 1 after power
down? I have 2
Toshibas that stay on the same input, I would have thought
other brands do
the same.

I'll be going there in a couple of hours, but wondered if
there was an LG
owner on here who knew what to do?

Thanks

CD

At 83, the chances are he won't appreciate HD (although I could
be wrong).
Does the new sky box have a scart output? Would seem to be the
obvious
solution.

Tim



You don't have to have HD to use a HDMI connection. My Panny is
only 1080i but I run it for HD from the cable box at 720p and is
quite OK. With no upscaling the picture still looks better though
on SD.




Well yes but the point is that the TV isn't auto-switching the input on
HDMI whereas it was on the scart (if I've understood the problem
correctly).

Tim

On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:13:42 +0000
Tim+ wrote:

"Woody" wrote:
"Tim+" wrote in message
...
CD wrote:
My 83 year old dad had an ageing 32" CRT that he had got to
grips with over
the years that recently died.
I stuck in a 42" LG, which he was over the moon with, into
this was plugged
his SD Sky box via scart (remember them) which cheerfully
switched the
telly to AV1 automatically. The Sky box started freezing so my
brother put
a spare Sky HD box on via HDMI, all was fine apart from him
getting his
head round the different Sky interface.

Problem is when he turns it on of a morning it defaults to
antenna input &
he doesn't have one.

He can just about do power on/off & volume, but changing
inputs is alien to
him & he's of an age where taking in anything new is
difficult.

Is it posssible to make the LG remember HDMI 1 after power
down? I have 2
Toshibas that stay on the same input, I would have thought
other brands do
the same.

I'll be going there in a couple of hours, but wondered if
there was an LG
owner on here who knew what to do?

Thanks

CD

At 83, the chances are he won't appreciate HD (although I could
be wrong).
Does the new sky box have a scart output? Would seem to be the
obvious
solution.

Tim



You don't have to have HD to use a HDMI connection. My Panny is
only 1080i but I run it for HD from the cable box at 720p and is
quite OK. With no upscaling the picture still looks better though
on SD.




Well yes but the point is that the TV isn't auto-switching the input
on HDMI whereas it was on the scart (if I've understood the problem
correctly).

Tim

Last night, the OP posted a message that said that the problem was
sorted.
--
Davey.

On 18/01/2013 14:25, CD wrote:
My 83 year old dad had an ageing 32" CRT that he had got to grips with over
the years that recently died.
I stuck in a 42" LG, which he was over the moon with, into this was plugged
his SD Sky box via scart (remember them) which cheerfully switched the
telly to AV1 automatically. The Sky box started freezing so my brother put
a spare Sky HD box on via HDMI, all was fine apart from him getting his
head round the different Sky interface.

Problem is when he turns it on of a morning it defaults to antenna input &
he doesn't have one.

He can just about do power on/off & volume, but changing inputs is alien to
him & he's of an age where taking in anything new is difficult.

Is it posssible to make the LG remember HDMI 1 after power down? I have 2
Toshibas that stay on the same input, I would have thought other brands do
the same.

I'll be going there in a couple of hours, but wondered if there was an LG
owner on here who knew what to do?

Thanks

CD



critcher said ................
For some reason the LG will not switch over automaticaly to HDMI.My old
panasonic 32 inch flatscreen will turn over to hdmi.But the LG will stay
on the last setting until you change it manually.
When I turn on in the morning, the LG says no input and when I press the
Sky button on the sky remote the HDMI input is from the sky box.
I also have the sky box set to go to sleep where there is inactivity.

On 24/01/2013 20:03, critcher wrote:

critcher said ................
For some reason the LG will not switch over
automaticaly to HDMI.My old panasonic 32 inch
flatscreen will turn over to hdmi.But the LG will stay
on the last setting until you change it manually.
When I turn on in the morning, the LG says no input
and when I press the Sky button on the sky remote the
HDMI input is from the sky box.
I also have the sky box set to go to sleep where there
is inactivity.

I think Panasonic TVs may be the only ones that
auto-switch - and then only on HDMI 1.
My Samsung also remembers which input was last used.