Frame Pro 2025 75” after two months
It’s easy to see why these TVs are somewhat polarizing. They are easily the most beautiful and the most frustrating TVs on the market.
For me it’s been worth all the glitchy headaches to elevate our main living space and not have a media console and TV setup like we’ve had forever.
It’s like being an early adopter to technology where the tradeoffs are plenty but you get something so different and new that it’s worth it. But c’mon Samsung, it’s been almost a decade!
At times it’s been a close call between love and hate though because there have been a few incredibly annoying stretches where it just does whatever it wants.
The two main issues have been one where it would just switch to art mode whenever it wanted in the middle of watching TV. And it would do it like every 5 or ten minutes for an hour. Never got to the bottom of it but I find having the smart things app closed on my phone helps. And not using YouTube maybe which kind of sucks.
The other most annoying issue is the aggressive auto brightness in art mode despite having every possible setting turned off. If it gets too annoying, I reset brightness and start its learning process over and try to be careful and gentle handed with it for first couple days. (If that makes any sense.)
Other than that the one connect box has randomly disconnected once and required an hour of full reboots and every other measure I could try to fix it. And every now and then it just goes into some sleep mode and turns off despite every such setting being turned off.
Alllll that said, it’s added such an elegance to our living room and it still makes me shake my head at how well it blends in and looks like decor. My kids’ friends have tried to touch the paintings because they can’t believe it’s a TV.
I use the frame crop all ($9.99 cdn I think) for my art. And it’s been so fun to go through and find stuff we like, and that best keep up the illusion of real art. Early Monet landscapes have been great for it. And the heavy brushstrokes of some of our favourite Tom Thomson Canadian landscapes are amazing.
I always try to have the brightness one notch lower than the wall behind it and it helps with the art illusion. We have a folder for when the room is relatively dark and another for when it’s bright.
As for picture quality, the frame pro is pretty good all things considered. It’s not like my 50” Sony Masters series OLED but with some gentle calibration it’s really good for all my sports and casual shows. Nobody else in my house knows or cares or can tell the quality differences anyways.
Of course there are better TVs but the Frame is more than just a TV and for me is (so far) worth all the hassle.