The lifestyle TV category has quietly exploded over the past few years, blurring the line between consumer electronics and home décor. What began in 2017 with Samsung’s The Frame TV—a product that dared to treat a television like wall art instead of a black rectangle—has evolved into a crowded and competitive segment aimed at buyers who care as much about aesthetics as screen specs.
Today’s lineup spans Samsung’s expanding design-focused portfolio (Frame, Serif, Sero, Moving Style), LG’s portable StandbyME, TCL’s Nextframe TV, Skyworth’s Elite Art TV, and Hisense’s growing Canvas TV range.
The message from the industry is clear: for a growing number of consumers, how a TV looks when it’s off now matters almost as much as how it performs when it’s on.
Building on the momentum of its Canvas TV lineup, Hisense has introduced the S5 DécoTV, doubling down on its push into the lifestyle TV category rather than chasing sheer screen size. The S5 DécoTV is designed around a compact, space-efficient footprint, targeting smaller rooms and multipurpose spaces where a traditional wall-mounted slab simply doesn’t make sense.
Finished in Morandi white and paired with a fluid central stand and integrated cable management, the DécoTV leans hard into furniture-friendly design. Its sculptural profile is meant to disappear into the room when not in use, making it a more natural fit for bedrooms, dining areas, kitchens, and other lived-in spaces where visual restraint matters more than bezel bragging rights.
As Ondre Clarke, Head of TV Product Marketing at Hisense USA, explains, “DécoTV expands our Lifestyle TV lineup with a product that brings premium design and advanced technology within reach of more consumers. It delivers the artistry, intelligence, and performance Hisense is known for, now in a compact form that enhances any room.”
Designed to Look Good and Sound Right
The S5 DécoTV is built around a more practical idea of performance—good picture quality and competent sound without pretending to be a home-theater centerpiece. It uses Hi-QLED Color, which is still uncommon in the 32-inch category, paired with Full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution to deliver better color saturation and clarity than the entry-level LED panels that dominate smaller screens.
On the audio side, DTS Virtual:X is included to create a wider, more immersive soundstage than the TV’s compact enclosure would otherwise suggest.
HDR support is present but clearly positioned as a secondary feature. The S5 DécoTV supports HDR10 and HLG, though Hisense has not disclosed peak brightness figures—an important omission that suggests HDR here is more about compatibility than reference-level dynamic range.
Fire TV Smart OS
Right out of the box, the S5 DécoTV leans hard into convenience thanks to the Fire TV Smart OS. Once connected to Wi-Fi, the home screen surfaces a broad lineup of major streaming apps, putting live TV, on-demand content, and recommendations front and center without much setup friction.
For anyone still living in the physical-media world (yes, you still exist), the S5 DécoTV includes three HDMI inputs and a USB port for connecting Blu-ray and DVD players, cable or satellite boxes, and USB storage devices. Press & Ask Alexa is built in, enabling voice search, playback control, and smart-home management at the push of a button.
Apple AirPlay and HomeKit support round out the ecosystem, making it easy to stream directly from an iPhone, iPad, or Mac—because not everyone wants to talk to their TV, and that’s fair.
Small, But Stylish
At 32 inches, the Hisense S5 DécoTV embraces its smaller footprint without apologizing for it. This is a TV clearly aimed at bedrooms, studios, dining areas, and other lived-in spaces where scale, placement, and visual harmony matter as much as raw performance. Rather than trying to disappear into a black rectangle, the S5’s soft, neutral finish is designed to complement modern interiors instead of fighting them.
Sitting alongside Canvas TV in Hisense’s expanding lifestyle lineup, the DécoTV underscores the company’s broader strategy: treating televisions as part of the room, not just another screen on the wall. It’s a deliberate move toward design-conscious products that balance everyday usability with restrained, contemporary aesthetics—without pretending every space needs a 65-inch monument to excess.
Hisense S5 Deco TV Specifications
| Hinsese Model | S5 DecoTV (32S5QF) |
| Product Type | Lifestyle TV |
| Price | $299.99 |
| Actual Screen Size (Measured Diagonally) | 31.5” |
| Screen Class | 32” |
| Screen Type | LCD |
| Backlight Source Type | Direct Full Array |
| Screen Resolution | Full HD (1920 x 1080) |
| QLED-Quantum Dot Color | Yes |
| Full Array Local Dimming | No |
| Native Refresh Rate | 60Hz |
| Anti-Glare Low Reflection Panel | No |
| Motion Rate | 120 |
| MEMC / Frame Insertion | No |
| Aspect Ratio | 16:9 |
| HDR Format Support | HDR10, HLG |
| Smart Platform | Fire TV |
| Google Assistant | No |
| Alexa | Alexa Built-in |
| Apple Home Kit | Works with Apple HomeKit / AirPlay |
| Far Field Mic/Hands Free | No |
| Game Mode | No |
| VRR / ALLM | No |
| Game Bar | No |
| Game Enhancement | No |
| AMD Freesync | No |
| Nvidia G-Sync | No |
| Audio Output Power (Watts) | 16W |
| Multi-Channel Audio | 2.0 |
| Audio Enhancement | DTS Virtual: X |
| On-screen Display | English, French, Spanish |
| Power Consumption | 45W |
| Standby Consumption | ≤0.5W |
| Wi-Fi Built In | Wifi 5 |
| Bluetooth | Yes (5.0) |
| HDMI | 3 (HDMI 1.4) |
| HDMI-CEC, HDMI-ARC | Yes (eARC – HDMI 3) |
| Ethernet (LAN) | No |
| USB Input | Yes (1 x 2.0) |
| RF Antenna Type | ATSC 1.0 |
| Composite Video Input | Yes |
| L/R Audio Input for Composite | Yes |
| Digital Audio Output | Optical |
| Earphone / Audio Output | No |
| Noise Reduction | Yes |
| Parental Control | Yes |
| Closed Caption | Yes |
| Sleep Timer | Yes |
| VESA Mounting Compatibility | N/A |
| Dual Position Stand | No |
| Remote w/ batteries | Fire TV Remote |
| Quick Start Guide and/or User Manual | Yes |
| Power Cable | Yes |
| TV dimensions with the stand (WHD) | 29.1×18.3×6.8 |
| TV weight with the stand (lbs) | 11.2 |
The Bottom Line
Hisense largely gets the formula right with the S5 DécoTV by acknowledging an uncomfortable truth in today’s TV market: not everyone wants—or needs—a wall-dominating screen. There is still real demand for a well-designed, good-performing small TV, especially for apartments, dorm rooms, bedrooms, and secondary spaces where flexibility and aesthetics matter more than raw horsepower.
The inclusion of Hi-QLED Color in a 32-inch panel is genuinely notable at this price, putting the S5 in rare company alongside models like Samsung’s small-format The Frame and Roku Select Series.
That said, the S5 DécoTV is also a product of deliberate restraint. The lack of local dimming, anti-glare treatment, gaming features like ALLM and VRR, motion processing, and analog audio outputs makes it clear this isn’t trying to be a spec-sheet warrior. Add the absence of Ethernet—a head-scratcher for fixed installations—and you can see exactly where Hisense drew the line to hold the price at $299.99. Any one of those additions would improve versatility, but together they would also push the S5 out of its carefully chosen value bracket.
Viewed in that context, the S5 DécoTV succeeds by staying honest about what it is: a design-forward, compact lifestyle TV that covers the fundamentals, looks good doing it, and avoids inflating its price chasing features its target audience may never use. For a secondary room or space-conscious setup, that restraint may be the smartest design choice of all.
Pricing & Availability
The 32-inch Hisense S5 DécoTV is available for $299.99 at Amazon.
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