The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV (wired.com)
- Reference: 0180535675
- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/01/07/1743200/the-inevitable-rise-of-the-art-tv
- Source link: https://www.wired.com/story/art-frame-tv-trends/
The surge in art-focused televisions comes down to two factors: smaller living spaces in cities where younger buyers lack dedicated rooms for large screens, and advances in matte screen technology that enable displays to absorb light like a canvas rather than reflect it like a window. Local dimming and improved backlighting processing allow these newer models to maintain their slim profiles for flush wall-mounting while delivering more realistic art reproduction than earlier edge-lit designs.
[1] https://www.wired.com/story/art-frame-tv-trends/
Screensaver (Score:2)
Did we just reinvent the screensaver?
Re: (Score:3)
> Did we just reinvent the screensaver?
Worse, we wedged an "AI assistant" into the silly thing as well.
Re: (Score:2)
> The screensaver works even without being connected to the network. This crap won't run without an active internet connection.
Ours works fine without an internet connection.
Re: Screensaver (Score:1)
Make and model? Sounds decent.
Re: (Score:2)
> Make and model? Sounds decent.
Samsung Frame 65".
We load our "art" via USB.
Re: Screensaver (Score:1)
Cool, thank you
Re: (Score:2)
It's opposite, more like it.
The purpose of a screensaver was avoiding burn-in on screens prone to it, like CRTs and plasma displays.
LCDs and power saving modes mostly killed them off.
Re: Screensaver (Score:2)
"The purpose of a screensaver was"....
A live feed so that you could be sure all the migrating toasters had safe flights.
Re: (Score:1)
I'll take that bet, and raise you, AI-generated.
Display paingings when switched off (Score:3)
You keep using the word "off" - I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Re:Display paintings when switched off (Score:2)
Yeah, how much power does this consume when it's "off"?
The real reason they succeeded (Score:1)
The Frame was the only TV that actually was flush against the wall.
All the others stood away from the wall.
Had nothing to with displaying art.
The real trick for the consumer (Score:2)
Isn't the digital display of artwork, it's keeping advertisements out of the display.
Re: (Score:2)
Oh, but they'll never put ads on art screens (rolls eyes).
There are cheaper more versatile options (Score:2)
We've had $200 55" tv hooked into a raspberry pi zero displaying family photos and art for years and we have complete control over what gets displayed - it's not connected to the public net in any way.. Why would we ever trade that for an "always connected" service were "200 art works for free" implies setting up a subscription based account.
The one we have replaced a dedicated framed tv that displayed art this way, until the company went out of business and left us with a tv that no longer did anything at
LG has done this since at least 2019 (Score:2)
My 2019 LG OLED pretends to be a painting when it has no input, picture frames and all. You can have it do the same instead of turning off properly but that just seems insane to me. My more recent LG OLED monitor is the same. This isn't some recent catch-up from LG. The marketing feels like they're doing it to highlight the image quality and HDR of their high-end displays.
Yes! to Art TV! (Score:2)
If I'm going to have a 60" black mass on my wall, I'd rather it display art.
That being said, I want it to display what I want it to display and not require someone elses infrastructure etc. It needs to support local storage option (USB storage) as well as an API to call photos from what ever service or host I chose that supports free or cheap API access. Random pictures from a local NFS server. It should never require calling the mothership or an account to simply use baked in features; all such features
Re: (Score:2)
Like with Samsung's The Frame TV, where you can plug in a USB to load your own artwork?
Re: (Score:2)
I also want the online/network openess, not only "if you manually transfer files". Not just one feature, but all features.
Height (Score:2)
Viewing art height and watching TV height are two different things.
I had 2 art TVs (Score:2)
The Samsung software is pretty useless.
You get flush but thick TV and then a huge box you have to hide somewhere with a fragile snake cable.
Want to connect it to your cloud photos to display them. nope.
Want rotate photos faster than 10 minutes nope.
Apps like TV are slow to load.
We ended up connecting a google tv to it to replace the functionality missing from the horrible Samsung software.
Power Consumption (Score:2)
A typical 55" TV draws perhaps 80W. Convert to kWh/year, and it's 80*24*365.25/1000 = 701.28.
If you electricity is $0.20/kWh, then you're looking at $140/year for your "art" display. That's over $10/month.
Some people don't care, but it's really wasteful.
Now an e-ink display would be really efficient, only needing power when the image is changed, but those aren't practical for TVs (or likely for any large use).
This is just a shallow form of marketing... (Score:5, Insightful)
This is just a shallow form of marketing designed to push the "always on and always connected" model of consumer technology that reduces privacy, cyber-security and consumer rights. This is gross and it has nothing to with art. Yuck.
Re: (Score:2)
It's even more stupid. If I really wanted something like this why would I pay $900 when I can buy a 60" 4K TV for $200 during a Black Friday sale and use it to display any number of works of art or other images I wish to as opposed to being limited to merely 2,000 different works. I'd much rather just get a painting though. I can go to a museum to look at something old and famous. I'd rather have something personal to me on my own walls.
Re:This is just a shallow form of marketing... (Score:4, Interesting)
We have one of these in our home. It was a housewarming gift. It's not connected to the Internet, but still displays art. The frame matches the other items surrounding it on the wall. It brightens and dims as the light changes. It's also a really good TV. We love everything, except that there is an external box that required we install a flush-mount box behind the TV to hide the wiring and keep the illusion of "art".
Re: (Score:2)
Teaching the kids to be helpless is profitable.
You said it, why pay $900 when you could have paid $200? Makes sense to me but,
soon the kids or whoever buys this overpriced crap will be telling you that putting whatever images you want to see on a USB stick and looking at that is "dumb". rinse. repeat.
And that is the world we live in.
Re: (Score:1)
i need to start a blog of "the grumpy old men of slashdot" who will type anything to be contrarian complainers even when it makes no goddamned sense.
Re: (Score:2)
Something like this is probably akin to letting algos show you stuff on Spotify vs curated your own music collection. There's a niche for someone that wants a TV, doesn't want a black void on the wall when they aren't watching it, and appreciates art but doesn't want to curate it. But I agree that the price premium seems... excessive, even with the presumed licensed art content.
Re: (Score:2)
> I'd much rather just get a painting though.
From TFS: "The surge in art-focused televisions comes down to two factors: smaller living spaces in cities where younger buyers lack dedicated rooms for large screens..."
So some people don't have much wall space and have to choose between a TV and a painting. For them, a TV that doubles as a painting - or vice-versa - would be very desirable. And being able to change the "art" readily is a pretty cool feature.
It's probably not something I'd want - it strikes me as a bit kitschy - but I do get the appeal.