My Favorite Art TV Is Half-off for Amazon Prime Day
Just last week, the WIRED Reviews team published our comprehensive guide to the best art TVs, a piece I've long anticipated. Art TVs, you probably
Just last week, the WIRED Reviews team published our comprehensive guide to the best art TVs, a piece I've long anticipated. Art TVs, you probably know, are screens that display art when they're not in use. They have a matte finish and a bezel that mimics the frame you'd hang art with on your wall. My own contribution to our guide was the Hisense S7 CanvasTV. I love this thing. And for Prime Day, the S7 is currently half off its list price, and $100 below the lowest price we've ever tracked it.
I have the 50-inch size, which is perfect for a wall in my bedroom. The picture quality is not competitive with high-performance screens, but that's not really the point. Not everyone cares about a crazy-high refresh rate, inky blacks, and extreme sharpness. Some people—many people— just want a TV that will show a game or stream YouTube and doesn't look dorky in their room. But you cannot beat the current price. The Samsung Frame was the first major player in this category, and remains the best-known name, but there are now a number of competitors, including TCL and Amazon's Ember Artlite.
But I'm still quite partial to the Hisense CanvasTV line. If you're looking for a discreet second or third screen for somewhere in your house, you can't beat this price. Also factor in that you're getting a free bezel (frame) with that, which you'd have to drop another $150 for with Samsung. While it's heavy enough that you should have two people to mount it, you can have this CanvasTV leveled on the wall with the single-piece mounting bracket within an hour.
It connects seamlessly to your Google account, where you can pull photos, or you can choose from 1,000 pieces of art without paying for a subscription. I really love Hisense TVs, in general, as they have intuitive controls housed in a brushed nickel remote and a built-in Google TV operating system.
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