Samsung Frame Pro Review: A Good TV for a Pretty Living Room
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For years, we’ve been able to control living room lighting from our TVs with a simple voice command, punch up an Xbox game (with no Xbox connected!), and play high-res music using apps like Tidal.
Now, when you mount a so-called “art television" on a wall, it can show Andrew Wyeth paintings, AI-generated artwork, and even recent vacation photos.
Is it worth spending up for an art display ?
Maybe so, judging from a hands-on test with the new Samsung Frame Pro.
I’ve become sold on televisions that go beyond merely being black screens in the background when not playing the latest movies or shows.
I wanted to see if the artwork features made the Frame Pro a unique outlier among televisions, and I was not disappointed.
Photograph: John Brandon After unboxing what is otherwise a very normal-seeming TV, I snapped on a set of customizable bezels that accent the black frame.
The bezels are an awesome way to fool folks into thinking your TV is just matte artwork, and there are no screws, no measuring, just brilliant design.
Available in White, Teak, Brown and Sand Gold, the bezels cost $199 for the 65-inch model I tested, and they snap into place in seconds.
Oddly, many of the user reviews for the bezels are negative, but that’s because people keep saying they had shipping problems.
The bezels are also now interchangeable with Samsung’s original art television called The Frame, which doesn’t have a breakout box for connections like this one does (more on this later).
I didn’t mount The Frame Pro on a wall, because I don’t have the space, but the included legs are easy to snap into place.
Unlike the TCL NXTVISION art television I have also been testing, you don’t need screws.
The overall design of The Frame Pro is sleek and stylish, all black with no accents other than the bezels.
