![]() ![]() It uses 'gesture' sensors on the top and sides rather than a touchscreen, and these don’t react to touch but by waving your hand just above the frame. The Netgear Meural works best when left to do its thing, because the on-frame controls are a little wonky. You’re most likely to use these to tell the Meural to sleep or wake at certain times of the day, but they can also make it play a specific album/playlist, or a random one. You can choose how long photos stay on-screen, and set schedules. That said, photos can be split into playlists – albums, basically – so you’re not left with one massive endlessly rotating stack of images. And beyond that point you’re looking at a photo library so big you’ll barely ever see some of the images. The Meural has 4GB of internal storage for images, and if you get the art membership it includes an extra 16GB of cloud storage. There are 'Discover' and 'Browse' tabs for Netgear’s library of art works and, the one we’re more interested in, an 'Upload' tab that lets you send your photos to the frame. The Netgear Meural uses the Meural app to get photos. Here’s how the photo frame works behind the scenes. (Image credit: Future) Software and how it works It’s also the wrong shape, a 16:9 widescreen aspect, if you shoot with a DSLR or mirrorless camera rather than a phone. This frame is a good way to show off your photos, but does it reproduce them in all their glory? Not quite. But the aliasing effect in photos of overhead power lines was clear too. This is perhaps more obvious in paintings rather than photos, the sharp lines of a Kandinsky painting revealing the Meural’s limits quite well. Look remotely close and you’ll see evidence of pixellation, because the pixels in a 15.6-inch 1080p screen are actually quite large. The average resolution is actually more noticeable, though. ![]() Deep reds can take on a pastel, pinkish or orange tone because the panel can’t quite reach those super-saturated reds. ![]() While we prefer it to a conventional smart display for photos or artworks, its color reproduction isn’t as rich as that of the Aura Mason Luxe we reviewed recently. We were not initially bowled over by the Meural’s screen, though. ![]()
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