Care Home Screens
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The Outside World, Live, on Your Lounge TV

Playing live now — a real care home display
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Live views, happening right now A gentle fade between each Today’s menu, activities & news

Playing at demo pace so you can see it all in a minute. In your lounge, every view stays for as long as you choose.

Beautiful places that are always live — never a recording, never a loop. Between the views, your screen shows today’s menu, this afternoon’s activities, birthdays and news. Add your own camera and residents can watch the birds in your garden from their armchair.

From £39 a month per screen · a whole home, up to 6 screens, £129. See pricing

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A Window on the World for Every Resident

Real View brings live views from beautiful places to the TVs in your home — waves rolling onto a Cornish beach, a harbour waking up, sheep on a hillside, the sun going down over the sea. Real places, happening right now, in the same weather and the same light your residents would see if they were standing there.

Between the views, your screen becomes your home’s own noticeboard. Today’s lunch and supper, the afternoon singalong, a resident’s 90th birthday, visiting times, and the roles you’re recruiting for — all updated from your phone, and on screen in moments.

“The tide coming in at St Ives while lunch is served — and between the views, today’s menu and this afternoon’s singalong.”

Every View Is Live. Always.

Nothing on your screen is a recording. When the sun comes up in Cornwall, it comes up on your lounge TV. When it rains on the coast, it rains on your screen. That is what makes Real View different from any channel of nature films.

Never a recordingreal places, right now
Never a loopno clip plays twice
Never the same daythe light, the weather, the season
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In Step With the Day

Morning light in the morning, sunsets in the evening, frost in winter and blossom in spring. A live view gently follows the real time of day and the real season.

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Something to Talk About

“Look, the fishing boats are coming in.” Because it is really happening, there is always something new to notice and share with the person in the next chair.

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Places They Remember

Seaside towns, harbours and countryside from across Britain and beyond — the kind of places residents went on holiday, grew up near, or always wanted to visit.

Your Home’s Own News, Between the Views

Make a slideshow from a few pictures, or upload a video. Choose how often it comes round, and it plays full screen as one view hands over to the next.

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Today’s Menu

Lunch, supper and the pudding everyone’s waiting for. Residents know what’s coming, and so do the families visiting at mealtimes.

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Activities & Events

This afternoon’s singalong, Thursday’s chair exercise, the summer fete. Your activity programme, on the screen everyone looks at.

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Birthdays & Celebrations

A resident’s 90th, a new great-grandchild, a member of the team’s ten years with you. Photos from last week’s party, shared with the whole home.

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We’re Recruiting

Every visiting family sees the roles you’re hiring for — carers, nurses, kitchen and activities staff. The people who already know and trust your home are your best recruiters.

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Notices for Families

Visiting times, the newsletter, the residents’ meeting, your latest inspection rating and the name of the manager on duty.

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Today’s Weather

A local forecast slide that draws itself, kept up to date through the day — perfect for planning a turn round the garden.

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Updated From Your Phone

Change the menu from the kitchen, add a birthday from the office. Every screen in the home picks it up by itself, and nobody touches a remote.

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Quiet or With Music

Soft music from our library under a slideshow, or one switch for a silent screen in a lounge where the radio is already on.

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Different Screens, Different Shows

The main lounge, the quiet lounge, the dining room and reception can each play their own mix of views and notices, all from one account.

Simple Pricing

One subscription for your screens, with everything included. Choose from any of the live streams in our collection — as many as you like, in any order — and change them whenever you want.

Your First Screen
£39 / month

then £29 a month for each extra screen

Whole Home
£129 / month

up to 6 screens — every lounge, the dining room and reception

Care Groups
Tailored

one account across all your homes

Pay yearly and get two months free. Prices exclude VAT. A plug-in player is supplied for every screen.

Every Screen Includes
  • Any of our live streams, as many as you like
  • Unlimited streaming, all day
  • Full rights for public display
  • Your menus, activities and notices
  • Local weather slides
  • The music library, cleared for your home
  • Your own control panel
  • A plug-in player for each screen
  • Help getting your first screen running
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Optional extra

Add Your Own Cameras

Your screens play any of the streams in our collection on their own. In addition — or instead — you can add your own Real View plug-and-play cameras capturing your view: the garden your residents helped to plant, the bird feeder outside the lounge window, the sea across the road, or anything else of interest to your home.

Completely optional. Your own cameras are an additional cost, per camera per month, on top of your screens. Start with the collection alone, and add a camera whenever you like.
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It points at the view, never at people. We agree the camera’s position with you so it frames the garden, the feeder or the scenery — not residents, staff or visitors. The camera is supplied free, stays ours, and we look after it. You pay only for the service.
Garden View
+£49 extra per camera / month

Your own view, live on the screens in your home.

  • Your view in your display, between the collection and your notices
  • Live all day, on every screen you choose
  • Camera supplied, set up and looked after
Family View
+£99 extra per camera / month

Families watch the same view their mum or dad is watching, from home.

  • Everything in Garden View
  • Your view live on your own website
  • A private family channel, opened with your home’s access code
  • A lovely reason for families to choose your home
Social
+£199 extra per camera / month

Your home on Facebook and Instagram every week, without anyone having to write a post.

  • Everything in Stories
  • Social posts written for you, with captions, ready to approve
  • Vertical clips cut for Facebook, Instagram and TikTok
  • Promo films for open days and recruitment — your clips, your words, music underneath

Camera prices are per camera, per month, in addition to your screens, and exclude VAT. Tell us about your garden and your view and we’ll suggest the right cameras for your home.

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Choose your screens, add your own view if you’d like one, and tell us where to send your login. We’ll set your account up and send a player for each screen, ready to plug in.

Why Views of Nature Matter

Decades of research point the same way: looking at nature helps people feel calmer. For residents who can’t easily get outside, a live view is the next best thing to the real walk.

457 patients

In a hospital waiting room study, patients who could see nature — real plants, or simply pictures of them — reported lower stress than patients waiting in a plain room.

Beukeboom, Langeveld & Tanja-Dijkstra, 2012 →
Lower pulse rates

In a blood donor waiting room, pulse rates were markedly lower when the screen showed nature scenes than when it showed city scenes — and ordinary daytime television made for a more stressful wait than no television at all.

Ulrich, Simons & Miles, 2003 →
959 people

A 2026 study run by ten research teams in five countries found that people recovered from stress better, by their own account, after watching nature scenes than after watching urban ones.

Van den Berg, Dijkstra et al., 2026 →

Up and Running in an Afternoon

A player for each screen arrives ready to plug in, and everything else is set from your own control panel on any computer, tablet or phone. Your TVs follow along by themselves.

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Choose Your Views

Browse the live collection, watch any view before you pick it, and choose the ones your residents will love — plus your own garden view if you have a camera.

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Add Your Notices

Pop in today’s menu, the activities and any news. Upload a few photos for a slideshow, add soft music if you’d like it, and choose how often they come round.

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Plug In the Player

We send a small player for each screen, ready set up. Plug it into the TV and the power, join it to your Wi-Fi from your phone, and it plays all day by itself.

Made for Every Kind of Care Setting

Wherever residents gather, relax or wait — and wherever you have something to tell them and their families.

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Residential Care Homes

The coast and the countryside in the lounge all afternoon, with the menu and activities in between.

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Nursing Homes

A calm, changing view for residents who spend more of the day indoors, and clear notices for families and visiting professionals.

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Dementia Care

Gentle, familiar scenes with no adverts, no presenters and no sudden noise — just the real world, going on as it always does.

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Retirement & Assisted Living

A welcoming screen in the residents’ lounge and reception, with events, trips and the week’s news.

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Day Centres

Today’s programme, lunch and transport times between views your visitors will talk about all day.

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Hospices

Peaceful live views for patients’ rooms and family areas, with quiet information for visitors.

Why Care Homes Choose Real View

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Always Live

Every view is happening right now. Not a film, not a loop — the real world, in real time, every minute of the day.

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Fully Licensed

Every view is original and licensed for public display, and the music library is cleared for your home. No adverts except your own.

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Plug In and Play

We supply a small player for every screen. Plug it into any TV with an HDMI socket and it does the rest — it even switches the TV on in the morning and off at night, at the times you choose.

Frequently Asked Questions

The basics

What is Care Home Screens?
Care Home Screens is the care home service from Real View. It turns the TVs in your lounges, dining room and reception into your home’s own channel: live views from beautiful places, playing one after another with a gentle fade between them, and your own menus, activities and notices in between. You build it in a control panel on any phone, tablet or computer, and the screens follow along by themselves.
Are the views really live?
Yes, every one of them, all the time. Each view comes from a camera in that place, streaming as it happens — never a recording and never a loop. When the sun rises over the harbour it rises on your screen, and when it rains on the coast it rains there too. No two days ever look the same.
Why does live matter for residents?
Because it is real. A live view follows the true time of day and the true season, there is always something new to notice, and it gives residents something to talk about together — the boats coming in, the weather turning, the sun going down.
Does a camera film our residents?
No. Your screens need no camera at your home at all — they show live views from our cameras in beautiful places, plus the notices you add. If you choose to show your own view, the camera points at the garden, the bird feeder or the scenery, and we agree its position with you so it frames the view and not residents, staff or visitors.
Is it licensed for showing in a care home?
Yes. Every view in the collection is original and licensed for public display, and the music library is cleared for commercial use too. There are no adverts on your screens except your own.
Can I see it working before I sign up?
Yes — the TV on at the top of this page is a real care home display, playing live right now. It runs at a quicker pace there so you can see a few views and some notices inside a minute. In your home, each view stays for as long as you choose.

Your notices

What can we show between the views?
Anything you can put in a picture or a video: today’s menu, the activity programme, birthdays and celebrations, photos from last week’s party, visiting times, the newsletter, your latest inspection rating, the manager on duty, and the roles you are recruiting for.
How do we update the menu each day?
From your control panel on any phone, tablet or computer. Upload a picture of today’s menu, or build a slideshow from a few photos, and every screen in the home picks it up by itself. Nobody needs to touch the TV.
Can we advertise jobs on the screen?
Yes, and it works well. Every family who visits sees the roles you are hiring for — and the people who already know and trust your home are some of your best recruits. With the Social camera plan we can also make short recruitment films from your own clips.
Is there a weather slide?
Yes. A local forecast slide draws itself and stays up to date through the day, so you never have to make one.
How often do our notices appear?
You decide. Set how often a notice comes round, and give the important ones more weight so they are seen more often. They arrive at the natural moment, as one view hands over to the next.
Is there sound?
That’s your choice. Slideshows can carry soft music from our library, and one switch makes the whole screen silent — handy in a lounge where the radio is already on.

Your own view

Can we show our own garden on the screens?
Yes, as an optional extra. We supply one or more Real View plug-and-play cameras to point at your garden, your bird feeder or the view from your windows, and your own view plays live on your screens alongside the collection.
What are the camera plans?
Your own cameras are completely optional and cost extra, on top of your screens. Garden View, £49 a month per camera: your own view live on your screens. Family View, £99: adds your view on your website and a private family channel. Stories, £149: adds daily highlight clips and timelapses of the garden through the seasons. Social, £199: adds social media posts and captions written for you, vertical clips and promo films. Prices exclude VAT.
Do we have to buy the camera?
No. The camera is supplied free, stays ours, and we look after it. You pay only for the service, per camera per month.
How can families watch?
With Family View and above, your view goes live on your website and on a private family channel in the free Real View app, opened with your home’s access code. Families at home can watch the same garden their mum or dad is looking at.
What are highlight clips?
With Stories and above, the best moments from your camera are picked out for you every day — the robin at the feeder, the fox at dusk, a glorious sunset — together with timelapses of the garden through the seasons. They make a lovely activity session (“who visited this week?”) and something to share with families.
What does the Social plan do?
It keeps your home on Facebook and Instagram without anyone having to write a post. Clips from your garden are cut into vertical videos with captions written for you, ready for you to approve and publish, and you can make promo films for open days and recruitment.

Your screens

What do we need to get started?
Just a TV with an HDMI socket, and your Wi-Fi. We send a small player for each screen, already set up for your home, so there is nothing to install and no app to find.
How do we set a screen up?
Plug the player into the TV and into the power. The TV shows you how to join it to your Wi-Fi from your phone — a minute’s job — and then it starts playing. That’s it.
Which TVs work?
Any TV or screen with an HDMI socket — smart or not, old or new. The player does all the work, so the TV only has to show the picture.
Does the screen start by itself?
Yes. The player switches the TV on in the morning and off at night, at the times you choose, and plays your display all day in between. Nobody needs the remote.
What if the Wi-Fi drops?
The player reconnects by itself as soon as the Wi-Fi is back and carries on playing. Nobody needs to do anything.
Can different screens show different things?
Yes. The main lounge, the quiet lounge, the dining room and reception can each play their own mix of views and notices, all from one account.

Price and getting started

What do the screens cost?
£39 a month for your first screen and £29 a month for each extra screen — or £129 a month for up to six screens across the whole home. Pay yearly and get two months free. Prices exclude VAT. Everything is included: a plug-in player for each screen, the whole live collection, unlimited streaming, the public display rights, your notices, weather slides, the music library and your control panel.
Is there anything else to pay?
No. There’s no setup fee and no charge for the hours you play. Your own camera, if you want one, is a separate plan from £49 a month per camera.
Do you take payment on the website?
No. Signing up on the website tells us what you want. We email you within one working day with your login, and arrange payment with you then.
What happens after I sign up?
We create your account and email your login within one working day. We send a player for each screen, ready to plug in, and you sign in and build your first display while it’s on its way. If you chose a camera, we’ll talk to you about your view and where the camera should go.
We run several homes — can you handle that?
Yes. Care groups run as one account with tailored pricing across the homes, and each home keeps its own menus and notices. Tell us how many homes and screens and we’ll put the numbers together.
Who is Real View?
Real View TV Ltd is a British company that runs its own live cameras in beautiful places and streams them to televisions — to its own free TV app, and to care homes and businesses through this service.

Bring the Outside World In

From £39 a month per screen, or £129 for the whole home. Sign up in a minute and we’ll have your first screen running with you.

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