How to Display Free Art on Any TV (No Frame TV Needed)

A five-minute guide · works on any smart TV

You don't need a Samsung Frame TV, an art subscription or a single download to hang a painting on your wall. Any TV that runs YouTube can do it: open a long, silent art video, go full screen and leave it running. The picture stays put for hours, and the only thing that moves is the light.

That is exactly what our channel makes: original paintings in 4K, in a gold frame, held on screen for two to ten hours with no music and no narration. Here is how to put one up on whatever TV you have.

Step by step, by TV

Samsung, including The Frame
Press Home, open the YouTube app (it is under Apps if it is not on the bar), search for Quiet Frame TV and press play. On The Frame, YouTube plays in normal TV mode, not Art Mode; Art Mode only shows still pictures you upload yourself, so a video gives you the moving light without paying for the Art Store.
LG
Press Home, open YouTube from the app bar, search for Quiet Frame TV and pick a video.
Sony, TCL, Hisense and other Google TV or Android TV sets
Open YouTube from the home screen, search for Quiet Frame TV and press play.
Roku
Press Home and open YouTube. If it is not there, add it from Streaming Channels (it is free), then search for Quiet Frame TV.
Amazon Fire TV
Open YouTube from your apps (or say “Open YouTube” to Alexa), then search for Quiet Frame TV.
Apple TV
Open the YouTube app, search for Quiet Frame TV and press play.
Chromecast, or casting from your phone
Open the video in the YouTube app on your phone, tap the cast icon at the top and choose your TV. The phone is free again straight away; the TV keeps playing.

Open Quiet Frame TV on YouTube

Tips for leaving art on all day

Pick a long video. Ours run two to ten hours, so you can put one on in the afternoon and forget about it until bedtime.
Stop the TV from switching itself off. Many TVs turn off after about four hours without a button press. Look for an energy-saving setting such as Auto Power Off or No-input standby; the name and place vary by brand and year.
Expect the odd “Are you still watching?” YouTube sometimes asks after a long stretch without a button press. One press of OK carries on.
Make it look like a painting. Switch the picture mode to Movie or Filmmaker and turn the brightness down. A frame that glows like a shop window looks like a screen; a dimmer one looks like a canvas.
Go easy on OLED screens. A painting is mostly still, and OLED panels can hold a faint ghost of a still image if it sits there bright for a long time. Keep the brightness moderate and leave the TV's own panel-care features switched on.
No sound to worry about. Nearly every one of our videos is completely silent, so the room stays quiet, or you can play your own music alongside it. The few that have sound say so in the title.
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