Hisense Canvas

Hisense's designer TV looks great, till you turn it on

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Hisense’s Canvas is a 55in screen with interchangeable frame designs, a painting-like matte screen, digital art options for display when the TV isn't being watched, extensive HDR support, anda native 4K resolution.

The ‘core’ TV is a fairly regular-looking set that is transformed into something more gallery appropriate once you have slotted the magnetic frame over the TV's edges. This frame is wide and chamfered, and its wood styling looks fairly convincing. The matte screen adds to the painting impression well, doing as effective a job as Samsung's The Frame's similarly light- and reflection-absorbing screen of making it feel as if pictures are being ‘painted’ in real time on canvas.

Its Quantum Dot colour system should help the Canvas deliver wider colour gamuts and greater colour stability. However, its edge-lit VA panel doesn't benefit from any local dimming, and the lack of light control associated with this sort of LED lighting configuration doesn't bode well for an HDR-capable LCD TV.

All four main HDR formats are supported, while a built-in RGB sensor enables support for HDR1O+ Adaptive and Dolby Vision IQ, which adjust images to suit the ambient light conditions in your room.

Connectivity includes four HDMI ports, wi-fi and Bluetooth, and there are two USB sockets and an optical digital audio output. You can use the USBs to provide digital photos for the Canvas TV's Art Mode, too.