Meural Digital Canvas Lightbox Limited Edition

The screen is nice and the idea is great, but the simple fact is this screen is usually dark because it fails to load our pictures. Although the web site shows no issues, only about 20% of the photos load on the frame - so instead we just see a small white box in the upper left of the screen. That's a shame because otherwise I'd be fine ignoring the other shortcomings of the frame.- Blacks are horrible. If you have dark images, they won't look good on this frame.- Swiping doesn't work too well, but if you do it several times it eventually does.- The screen format is very odd - basically cinema widescreen versus the standard 3:2 most photographs use. It does have the option to stretch, which I use because the blacks are so bad. Unfortunately if you stretch then people in the photos look a bit fatter.Ultimately this boils down to a software issue. I find it unacceptable that they simply cannot load a photo. For this reason we are returning it.

Excellent. I purchased the Lightbox edition. Indistinguishable from actual art. Anyone that has searched for live artwork and wondered how it will look in a particular room, next to certain furniture and lighting etc, this takes the commitment out of that.I own six Electric Objects 2 displays. Meural is leaps above in quality.Pros: superior quality image, endless selection of artwork available, including your own, can locally store artwork on the unit itself.Cons: fairly heavy for its size.

Wonderful product, especially the oil on canvas artwork which seems almost real. Wonderful repository for all the family from renassiaance to modern graffiti art.Only drawback is the short cord and if you can't find the means to conceal it, it somewhat detracts from the intended purpose.

It looks terrible at night. Like a TV screen - not like art or anything worth $700+ !

Very cool! I love the different galleries you can post and the ability to post short video! The swiping could be a little more improved but other then that I'm considering getting another one.

For whatever reason, it has taken a long time for this technology to mature to the point where you would really want to hang it on your walls. But it is finally arriving, and while there are several players in this market, Meural is the obvious leader, for the following reasons:- It is a heavy, solid, high quality frame. I have an ElectricObjects EO1 and when it is compared to any of my Meural frames, there is an obvious difference in quality: The Meural looks "real" and, frankly, expensive (and it does indeed cost more); the EO1 looks like a toy.- Meural as a company seems to be very serious about art. They want you to display real gallery-quality art and have it look good. By contrast, EO seems more concerned with the display of clever animated GIFs.- I've found Meural customer service and support to be excellent.- The one place that EO leads is that they allow artists to load a minimal web browser into the frame, thus allowing for some 'tricks' via HTML5 etc. Meural plans to make some kind of development API available, but I don't know when, and I don't know how powerful it will be.There are other players in this market that I lack hands-on experience with. However, I would advise everyone to hold off on buying a 4K Digital Art frame until the frame explicitly says it supports the Rec.2020 or (at least) DCI-P3 color gamut. These new gamuts will support a much larger range of colors, and will be a "must-have" for anyone who has a serious interest in "high fidelity" display of art in their home. DCI-P3 is just now beginning to be available on certain Samsung and Apple products. TheGetting back on point: the Meural costs somewhat more, but it's worth it. I would like to give it 4.5 stars for being near perfect except for the slightly higher price and the lack of a programming API.

More than the product, it's the support that sucks. It's an OK product -- it does what it says it does but not to the quality they boast. These images do not look like actual paintings, but they're still nice. I'd give the product itself a 3-4. The customer service though? TERRIBLE. They have no phone numbers, you just send an email and once in a while they'll respond. Their responses are very unhelpful and super vague -- like worse than any tech desk joke you've ever heard.For the money, you'd expect there to be some top notch support, but there isn't. If anything goes wrong with you $600-$700 purchase, you're on your own.

When I first got one of these, I was too lazy to hang it up so I just leaned it against the wall by the tv. Some of my roommate's friends came over and were like "oh that's cool." About 30-45 minutes later, one of the guys just started staring at me with his mouth gaping wide open. For what felt like forever. So I was starting to get a bit awkward and I had no idea why he was staring at me. He just kept gaping at me even when I asked him what he's staring at me for. Then he looked back between me and my Meural repeatedly and slowly, I realized that the image must have changed. It was set to rotate images every hour. He thought it was real and who knows what he must have thought when the art displayed was different than when he showed up. So that was fun.Anyways, eventually I decided that I should really hang this thing up. It comes with a french cleat with drywall anchors. Pretty easy setup, even though I had no idea how to work those things. Did some research and learned I'm supposed to avoid studs in the wall if the anchors are used. I still drilled a little off by accident so it was a tight fit to install the french cleat, but I made it work. My neighbors probably thought I was angry at them with all the hammering I did.It's controlled using the phone app or, if you're too lazy to find your phone, you can wave your hand in front of the white mat and it'll just change images. There's some extra menu stuff too. I use their online scheduler to make sure it's sleeping when I'm not around to save power. Noticed many darker toned artworks look very realistic. Whites look more digital.