This is actually false. This works just fine on my 32LH30 that I bought at Best Buy last year. You do have to use different firmware. I found out how in this thread (http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1132241).

I’ve got a mate with a a 42″ LG LCD he baught about a year ago, and it plays DivX and MKV’s just fine.

Do they block this in some countries or something?

(in Australian btw)

Thats a danish TV, in case anybody was wondering.

But.. What is their motivation for blocking this feature?

martinmuck: motivation for blocking the feature would be to release a new model television with the usb port open. or perhaps the port was only intended as a quick way to run diagnostics on the television back at the workshop or repair depot.

@Digital, in the UK (at least) LG sell the higher up models with this feature enabled out of the box and they’re actively marketed as “supporting USB playback”. The lower spec models don’t, but are effectively the same hardware, albeit with a slightly smaller screen. The USB port on my LG (which had this hack applied to it in January) is labelled for diag. purposes only, but frankly it just seems like it was easier for them to churn out the same basic hardware with only software differences :)

As for living with this hack, it seemed like a good idea at the time, but we’ve barely used it. That’s probably more to do with the fact that we have various “magic boxes” scattered around the house to stream to the Xbox or AppleTV :-/

My 32LH4000 screen had mp3 and picture support via usb already enabled out of the box, I’m glad I checked whether the menu hack worked before I did any upgrading.

There is no need to downgrade the lcd’s firmware to gain access to the service menu if you have a Symbian phone with IR port.
All you have to do is to install the application irRemote in it with the “IN-START Service Menu + EZ Adjust Service” remote definition file (downloadable from Psiloc). This file configures the irRemote as a Service Remote. Press the key “2″ and enter the code 0-0-0-0 (this with the regular LCD’s remote) and the Service Menu appears.

Other universal remotes may work as well if the have the proper codes (not tried by myself)

@El_meu

If you have a “One For All” remote with a setup button you can send custom key-presses by pressing setup and the 3-digit button code (you can also assign the code to a button)

Any word on what those codes are?

it comes with a usb port or you have to solder one in yourself?
do modern tvs have a flyback transformer or did those go out with the tubez?
flyback transformers are fun

our LG tv has the usb playback and is fully functional, it plays high quality Divx and standard mp4′s nd avi’s.
also music and pictures
No need for a hack it comes as standard

I have a North American 47LH40 which ships with MP3 and photo “playback” from USB, but not movie playback. Some people on AVS Forum said they got it working via the same method (service menu, set DIVX to “HD”) but frankly I don’t need it badly enough to risk bricking my baby. Is there any reason to use this over e.g. playing the movie on my attached PS3 or 360?

I just bought a 42LD450 that came with MP3 and picture viewing out of the box. I programmed my logitech harmony 880 with the EZ adjust menu command and unlocked Video playback. It does MKV amazingly well, although no DTS or AAC sound.

Electrophreak…exactly how did you hace you 32LD450 tv as LG said you cannot do this
thanks

I did this hack on my lg 42ld450 using the Logitech harmony remote. It worked great and on the first try. I am wondering if anyone has noticed that if they are playing movies from a usb flash drive that the longer the movie plays that the audio loses sync with the video? Anyone know why this happens and if there is a way to fix it? Or would this not happen if I used an external hard drive instead?

ALso, so far I have only tested and used this with SD movies (.avi format).

Thanks!

Haven’t had any sync problems here Derrick – been using my /hacked/ LG for quite some time.

So, I finally decided to download and try .mkv files. The picture is awesome but it’s giving me an error about the audio format not being supported. Did I forget to change a setting or something?

I have just avtivated the USB port on my 32LD450 tv, by using a Thomson ROC4238 4 in 1 Universal Remote Control, it took aprox 2 minutes to complete, this saved me messing with my firmware and ruining my warranty….thanks for all your help in this matter.

any chance to get my LG 42PG3000 to hav USB,
Please, Please :)

does any one know if this can be done on the 42LG30D? I’m in Australia, and so far, I’ve tried the menu button hold and the OK button hold but both bring up random menus that don’t seem to allow me to do what these instructions say…. HELP!

Not sure about all of the LG models some of them have a serial port, I wonder if the service menu password entry could be automated through it, then it’s just a question of spamming it a maximum of 10,000 times until it gets the right pass code?