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Scott Wilkinson (7:37)

Now, as I was researching this question, I found a B7A online user guide which seems to indicate that you can view two HDMI inputs side by side, contradicting what my contact said. Now, my contact works at LG and knows his stuff, so I'm not quite sure what to make of this, but I thought I'd show it to you anyway. We'll put a link in the show notes for this online guide. Now, I've repeatedly reached out to my friend at LG to ask him about this discrepancy. I haven't heard back, so I am going to show it to you anyway. So you go to this online guide. You click on Enjoy Live tv. Then you click on viewing two programs or external inputs simultaneously. According to the manual, you press the Home button on the remote control and run the Multiview app. You should see two images. You select either one and the audio for that image is played. In the online manual, you scroll down to selecting Input, click on the down arrow at the top of the screen. That's how you do it. Under each image there is a list of sources including live TV, the internal OTA tuner, and the TV's HDMI inputs. This should let you select two different HDMI inputs. I'm surprised it says you can select the tuner for both images and display different channels. That's pretty surprising. That would mean there'd need to be two tuners in the tv. Now, the manual does have some caveats. It says Multi View may not be available for ultra HD channels. It the multi view and the recording feature, which is only available in certain countries, cannot be used at the same time. That may not apply here. Multi view may be limited depending on the device connected or the strength of the broadcast signal. Okay, those are some of the caveats that they mentioned. Now interestingly, I also found a Reddit thread about this very question. It concerns the LG C2 OLED which is from 2022 and we'll put the show the link into the show notes for that as well. And they're talking about the same problem. So there seems to be some confusion which I have not yet gotten to the bottom of except to say, and I believe this to be true. According to my contact, there's only one HDMI decoder in the B7 and most TVs including those from LG and other manufacturers and as a result you can't show two HDMI inputs side by side in multi view or picture in picture or whatever the TV is, whatever the manufacturer calls it in their TV. You can do it in late model LGs including the G4 from last year 2024, or the G5 or M5 this year from this year 2025 because they have two HDMI decoders built in because they have a more powerful processor, the Alpha 11. So I suspect, I'm pretty sure in fact, that what you're experiencing is just the way it is and there's nothing you can do about it except buy a new TV and an expensive one at that, a high end one, one of their top of the line ones to do that. And it's probably true of most other TVs, certainly the lower end models, maybe more recently the other manufacturers, high end models have two HDMI decoders as well. But it is what it is and I'm afraid that's all there is. But thanks for the question. Now in some episodes of Home Theater Geeks, I answer listener questions just like yours, so send them along to HTGWIT TV and I'll answer as many as I can right here on the show. Also, if you have a home theater, I invite you to send me photos of your room from different angles and maybe a sentence or two describing the room and what makes it special to you. I'd like to feature some of your rooms, some of your home theaters, in my Home Theater of the Month episodes which I do here on the show and maybe even have you on the show in real time to show us around your theater with your phone via zoom. Wouldn't that be cool? Could be a lot of fun. If you're interested, send me a. Send me an email to htgwit tv and I look forward to hearing from you. Until next time, geek out.

Leo Laporte (12:52)

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