Photos that we took. cropped to 16:9, turned into art by Gemini Pro Thinking with prompts like 'from the uploaded photo, create a painting in the impressionist style with visible brush strokes.' These are then upscaled with XNView.

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.

My current TV (TCL Roku TV) LED just went out because I used the Roku Backdrops for the past two years. Sad day. So I've decided to replace it with an Art TV. Costco has these two but I can't tell the difference between them. Thanks for your help.

This have to be an obvious method!

Can I mount the brackets this narrow? Thanks guys.

I highly recommend this to anyone. It's called broken morning,, and it's on the best of spring collection that's featured now. Even if you're not a big nature lover, the aesthetics are just so soothing.

We are in the process of building this room for our home that will be adjacent to our kitchen. We have another tv room for main watching but I’m wondering everyone’s thoughts on throwing a frame above the mantel like pictured here. Is there anything we should do/advise them to do when building to prepare for it? They have basic architecture plans for the room. Any alternative? I was thinking to wire a small Sonos soundbar and place that on the mantle and paint the wire or hide it behind one of those wire covers for walls.

One hot wheels car thrown across the room and that’s all it took… we were always thinking that the 65 inch was too small for this room anyway so I’m considering buying a new one at 75 inches. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to buy and get a good deal especially something like an open box or waiting for a big sale like Memorial Day or prime day? Is it worth the weight or is what is out there basically what I’m gonna get

I noticed a lot of people hating on the frame because apparently it's terrible at being a TV. I actually bought the frame only for displaying art. From my perspective here are the pros and cons:

Pros: displays art beautifully. I recently bought a framed art piece for $400 and with the Samsung frame I can rotate between endless gorgeous photographs and paintings and with the mat overlay, even without having purchased the optional magnetic frame, it looks to me like a very real non digital museum quality piece.

Cons: for a product called the frame they really buried the art mode. The TV boots up to a main menu dominated by TV apps. The art mode is just a side option.

Even in the art mode you are bombarded by subscription only material from the Samsung art store and "my photos" is again only a small option in a bombardment of other material. Before I purchased the frame I had read in multiple places Samsung has a complimentary curation which provides about 30 free art works each month. I was also under the impression the 2025 version arrived with a complimentary 1-2 subscription to the art store. Both are non present.

What's most shocking is that there isn't any ability to organize your photos or to set default options. All the photos are dumped into a single folder and the only options are to either select a single photo or play all. There isn't even a multi select tool available. This means I can't organize my photos which as an organized person drives me crazy but I also can't make playlists to play for example only nature photos or only classic paintings. It's either 1 or all. That's it.

Also there is no scheduling option. I can't schedule the TV to turn off during the day and on as I arrive home. Because of the lack of scheduling and organizing options I can't select to have my Frame display nature photos every morning and then classic paintings every evening. I can schedule a deep freeze and a whole array of "routines" for my Samsung fridge through the Samsung Smart Things app but The Frame has zero scheduling abilities.

*Edit: another redditer kindly informed me that scheduling on /off is available in the "routines" section of the Samsung Smart Things app. This is good but still there isn't the ability to make "playlists" and schedule specific photos or slideshows. It will only turn on and display the most recent photo. *

As far as art preferences such as brightness color warmth and matte style options those need to be selected for each photo individually. There isn't any way to set a default. Personally I like all art based on a specific set of settings but the frame defaults to settings different from my preference. I need to adjust each piece individually. Again there is no multi select tool for this. Although thankfully it does remember each piece's last assigned settings.

Now to the remote: there are buttons for TV volume and a channel and dedicated shortcut buttons for Samsung Smart tv and YouTube but there is not one single button for art settings such as brightness or color warmth. For this you will need to navigate to the photos settings. There isn't even amongst the dedicated shortcut buttons a button for art mode.

So basically Samsung buries "the frame" in the frames software, makes it non present on the remote, shockingly gives us zero organization and scheduling options and all in all makes it so the user experience is quite limited and frustrating when it comes to art. All this from a product advertised primarily for art display. I can't understand why they made it this way but maybe the paid Samsung art store account is a better experience.

Also the "invisible wire" coming out to the TV kind of ruins the whole expensive art piece vibe. In the picture above I covered the wire overlaying the black slate with painters tape temporarily but later I changed it to black tape. Although it's a small section It's still highly noticeable. I will try different ways to better conceal that short run overlaying the black slate. The rest of the wire I'll tuck in to the edges and seams but also that won't make it dissapear.

P.s. if anyone know how to access the complimentary Samsung curations or the complimentary 1-2 year membership please let me know. I looked everywhere in the art store I can't see it. Did they remove this option?

Hi, I just moved and have a 2024 65" Frame TV I want to have installed above my fireplace. As you can see with the HDMI cable, there is already a cabinet with an outlet where I can hide the wire and One Connect Box.

However, I'm worried that the TV will stick out from the wall because of the existing electrical and cable outlets on the fireplace wall. Is this something worth having an electrician take a look at before I have my TV installed? I'm typically a DIY person, but not when it involves electricity.

A follow-up to my original post with first impressions: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFrame/s/SUjdt4IGHz

This TV is still going strong on day-to-day use. There were some growing pains as we tried to figure each other out.

Sound Issues: the original soundbar I had plugged in would occasionally start making a loud buzzing (like, max volume 100) completely randomly. It was an older Samsung soundbar and I had already been looking to upgrade to Q-symphony so I made the switch. I got a HW-S700D ultra slim soundbar on clearance, and I had a frame speaker that came with my TV from Costco so I got a second to put behind for a true 5.1 experience. A true experience I did not get with Q-Symphony. I was having serious issues with an echo between the TV and the rest of the system. I tried hard-wiring the soundbar to the micro-HDMI port on the back of the TV but it never recognized. I thought the one-connect was the lag point and was very disappointed, so I just used the soundbar for output. Fast forward 8 more months and I had to replace my router and it turns out some devices were on the 2.1 band and others on the 5.4. They’re now all synched and it sounds good!

The TVOS is still hot garbage trying to milk you for data and I try to stay out of it when I can. I use it for art and that’s it. I still have 1 year of art left by getting the TV through Costco. I rarely change it, so I’m going to find another high quality image of this Van Gogh and go it alone when I’m done. I will say browsing the art store is nice, but they’re putting up more and more AI-looking trash and I’d rather stick with classic pieces. If I want AI trash I can make it myself.

The hardware is what really shines here. The matte screen is wonderful and shows every brush stroke well. I have the TV synched with my Alexa to turn artwork on when I’m home and off when I’m not, and it turns off at night or when it doesn’t sense anyone around. Overall the art-mode is solid.

If I could do it again I’d probably rather have the wired one-connect box they’re getting rid of: the power cable is thicker and it runs through the wall where it would be anyway. Also, the GIANT usb-C brick they have you plug the one connect box into makes my entire media console stick out an extra inch for my outlet strip.