If you like the idea of photos of nature displaying on your television, Amazon already has everything you need in place. But it does have its own easy to use options.
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How to Display Images with FireTVĪmazon’s FireTV doesn’t have access to Google Photos, unfortunately. Family photos, on the other hand, can work well provided they are oriented horizontally.
Portrait orientated photos, selfies, and so on likely won’t display very nicely on a large television. In any case, you should curate an album specifically for your TV. We recommend you create a dedicated album in Google Photos, and load either images of artwork you like or some of NASA’s amazing still shots of space. Settings > ScreenSaver > Change wait time let you change the amount of time before a screensaver starts, doublecheck that it’s not disabled. Go to Settings > ScreenSaver > Change Screensaver. Once you have Photo View installed, you can choose an album to pull images from, set Photo View as Roku’s screen saver, and even adjust the amount of time before the screensaver starts, all from Roku’s settings. Open it, and follow the prompts to sign in with your Google account (through the sign in with Google feature).
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To display a Google Photo album screensaver, you will need to install the Photo View channel. All you have to do is add or remove photos from the connected album. The benefit is, you can change out what photos display from any computer, tablet, or phone. If you have one, you can easily display Google Photo albums on your TV, and even set up a screensaver effect to start the album slideshow after a period of activity.Īlternatively, you could use Google Photos to power your Roku screensaver.
We think Roku is one of your best options for a Smart TV. Family photos that fit everyone in the frame will most likely work well too. If you’re looking for inspiration, check out the Art Institution of Chicago, which hosts high-resolution images of famous artwork, or you could use images from NASA. iCloud offers five GBs of free space and charges $1 a month for 50 GBs of space. Amazon Photos gives Prime subscribers unlimited storage space, and everyone else 5 GB’s of space.
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If you want full resolution, you only have 16 GBs for free. Google Photos offers unlimited storage for photos if you let it reduce the size of the picture. Just keep in mind any storage limits you may face when loading high-resolution images to Google Photos, iCloud photos, and Amazon Photos. Regardless of the platform, we recommend creating a dedicated album named “TV slideshow” so you can easily remember and find it. And Apple TVs use iCloud storage for their screensavers. Roku TVs can use either images from your phone or Google Photos. For FireTVs you’ll upload to Amazon Photos. If you’re using a Chromecast, you’ll load your photos to Google Photos. If you’re using your own photos, remember that selfies, photos you’ve taken in portrait orientation, and old film shots you digitized with a scanner likely wouldn’t look good blown up to your 40+ inch horizontal TV.īut if you’re confident you have plenty of horizontally orientated images taken at high resolution, you should go through them and choose the best of the bunch.
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