

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.
