There's nothing quite like the cozy comfort of a crackling fire. However, not everyone has a fireplace in their home and not everyone has the desire to carry firewood inside. Here's how to turn your TV into a fireplace instead.
The world of virtual atmosphere is quite interesting. You can easily go down the rabbit hole and find strangely specific experiences like "Relaxing Kitchen and Sounds of Cooking" and "Christmas Music from Another Room."
In this guide we will focus on fireplaces. There are many different ways to turn your TV into a virtual fireplace. It really depends on what devices and services you have connected to your TV. We will look at some of the most popular options.
Dandelion
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Dandelion live wallpaper
Developer: Wasabi
Price: Free
A simple, but at the same time beautiful dandelion with flying fluff. Customizable speed, color, water surface, etc. Popular live wallpapers on the theme of dandelions among owners of Android devices.
Earth 3D
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Earth 3D live wallpaper
Developer: Screensavers Store
Price: Free
Fascinating live wallpaper with planet Earth close-up. You can adjust the distance, animation speed and brightness.
The planet can be brought closer and rotated by touching the smartphone screen with your finger or using the gyroscope remote control on the TV box.
Smart TV applications
Winter Fireplace
Streaming services are great, but you may not subscribe to any of them, or perhaps prefer something more direct. Many smart TV platforms have apps specifically designed to display a fireplace on your TV.
We've rounded up some of the most popular fireplace apps for various smart TV platforms. You can also open the app store on your specific device and search for “Fireplace.”
Apple TV Fireplace apps
- Winter fireplace
- Fireplace of the first rule
- Fantastic fireplace
Android TV/Google TV Fireplace Apps
- Virtual fireplace Blaze 4K
- Virtual fireplace HD
- Romantic fireplaces
Roku Fireplace Apps
- Fireplace channel
- Holiday Yuletide Fireplace
- Christmas songs and fireplace
Amazon Fire TV Fireplace Apps
- White log fireplace
- Figured wooden fireplace
- Virtual fireplace Blaze 4K
Chromecast Fireplace Apps
Chromecast devices don't have the same "apps" that other smart TV platforms do. Instead, apps reside on your mobile device from which you “cast” content to Chromecast. You can cast any fireplace video from the streaming services listed above to your Chromecast-enabled TV.
As you can see, there are many ways to bring a warm fireplace into your home. Hopefully, with all these great options at your fingertips, you can turn your living room into a cozy cabin on a cold winter day.
Display corporate slideshows
A vibrant company logo with TrueRGB color rendering will perfectly complement the business interior of a reception or meeting room. Moreover, when you press the button for the first time, the TV will return to normal mode, and you can continue showing your promotional video or presentation without delay.
What to show is up to the user. This can be a single picture - which can be launched according to a set timer - or a whole photo series. For example, footage from past events. An unusual slide show will definitely help you feel the corporate spirit of your company. And it will certainly encourage potential partners to begin cooperation.
Make time for sports, yoga and meditation
You can use a regular clock in its dial or digital form as a screensaver. This way you can track the minutes spent in the plank, and you won’t have to look for your phone, which (you must admit) always distracts you from your home workouts.
For activities where you don’t keep track of time, such as yoga or meditation, an animated screensaver in the form of a cascading waterfall is suitable. With the HDR function, you can clearly see all the shades and details of the video landscape.
If you configure the screen so that it goes into a dimmer, night mode, the “temporary” screensaver will also have an energy-saving function.
Whether to install a TV screensaver or not is up to you. Gazer’s task as a manufacturer is to provide the user with maximum functionality.
And although the original purpose of screensavers has lost its meaning, they remain a good tradition for our British developers. And for users, it’s a great way to personalize a blank screen.
Rain
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Rain Live Wallpaper
Developer: BlackBird Wallpapers
Price: Free
Colorful live wallpaper with effects of rain, drops and foggy windows. There is a set of dozens of animated pictures in HD quality.
Various settings, plus support for vertical and horizontal screen orientation.
Works on smartphones, tablets and Android TV boxes.
Samsung D series
When installing programs on TVs of this model, you also need to start by registering a new user. To do this, press the “Smart HUB” button located on the remote control, and then press the “A” button to enter the menu. Further, creating a new user will be no different from the same process described above.
After completing the user creation process, you can proceed to installing applications. For this:
Aquarium
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Aquarium Live Wallpaper
Developer: DoubleDragon
Price: Free
Fishes swimming among corals. Animated live wallpaper for lovers of the underwater environment. Calm, relaxing atmosphere. There are settings for replacing the background, etc.
The eternal problem: TV or painting?
All modern panels are thin, with barely noticeable frames. And yet, they look like televisions. And Samsung The Frame is still a TV, albeit with an extremely unusual appearance and a “picture” background mode. Plus, it's very thin.
“Painting Mode” is an incredibly realistic screensaver with reproductions of famous paintings. Realism of the image, fantastic disguise as a canvas in a frame is achieved due to 3 “pillars”: thoughtful appearance, hardware capabilities of the TV and fine system settings of the proprietary Tizen .
Samsung specialists did their best to disguise it. The main features of The Frame:
Mount for flush mounting.
The proprietary The Frame mount (included) is designed for gap-free installation. Although, if desired, you can rotate it a few degrees horizontally.
If you don’t like it, you can buy a tripod easel (sold as an additional accessory). There are also regular legs to put on a table or chest of drawers. Holes for VESA have not been canceled either.
Baguette instead of frames.
Help: baguette is a picture frame; holds the glass that protects the paintings and at the same time complements the appearance of the canvas, being a transitional element to the overall interior.
Thanks to the bezels around the screen, Samsung The Frame could compete with any other TV for the title of frameless. But the trick is not the size.
Each face of The Frame is magnetic and black. Frames imitating a baguette are attached to it. There are walnut, beige and white. You will have to buy them (promotional offers often include an additional one for free).
Customizable passe-partout.
Reference: passe-partout is a cardboard frame or lining for a painting or photograph.
The photo provided by the manufacturer can be reproduced by any screen with connected “brains”. To resemble the real picture, Samsung came up with a software passe-partout.
There are 3 single and 3 combining several images to choose from. Combine and design as you like.
No wires.
All connectors and functional elements are placed in a separate One Connect (we already wrote about it in the Samsung QLED review), which can be hidden at a distance of up to 15 meters from the TV itself. A standard 5-meter cable is included in the package, but a long 15-meter cable will have to be purchased separately.
Presence sensor.
The TV only works when there is someone in the room. Exited - pause and screen turned off. And not just for the sake of saving.
Live Storm
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Live Storm Free Wallpaper
Developer: Teragon
Price: Free
Colorful live wallpaper with animation of rain and lightning. The atmosphere of night nature with moving thunderclouds. Sometimes wild animals run by.
The application is suitable for Android TV set-top boxes and smartphones.
AMOLED LiveWallpaper
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Amoled
Developer: maxelus.net
Price: Free
Colorful movement of multi-colored stripes in different directions. Clear drawing of the picture. Looks great on smartphones and large screen TV boxes.
