Samsung’s 65-inch Frame Pro TV is around $1,797.99 ($402 off) — a new all-time low — at Amazon and Best Buy during Amazon’s Prime Big Deal Days. The 75-inch model is around $2,197.99 ($1,400 off) at Amazon and Best Buy, which is also its cheapest price.
When you’re not watching it, the TV enters an “Art Mode” and cycles through a gallery of famous paintings, which appear a little more like actual artwork on its matte display than they would on an LED or OLED.
Art Mode is the Frame Pro’s main attraction, but it requires a subscription ($50 per year) to access. Once you’ve signed up, you can choose which paintings you’d like to display, including world-famous works like Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night. Samsung says the Art Store’s library can change at any time, so check it often and make sure to have a few favorites in case a piece you like gets removed.
The Frame Pro’s hardware was designed to support Art Mode. Its QLED panel is matte, which means you sacrifice some color vibrancy for a display that shows a lot less glare from the sun or indoor lights. The TV creates a thick, digital bezel around the artwork in Art Mode, but it displays an edge-to-edge image when used for anything else. Samsung includes both a stand and a wall mount with the Frame Pro.
The Frame Pro has only one built-in HDMI port. The other four HDMI ports — plus a two USB-A ports, a coaxial port, Ethernet port, and optical audio port — are on the Wireless One Connect Box. You connect your devices (a game console or 4K Blu-ray player, for example) to the Wireless One Connect Box, and it sends the audio and video signal from the source to the TV without any cables. There’s some latency, which means it’s not conducive to using the system for playing fighting or first-person shooter games since even a fraction of a second can be the difference between a win and a loss. Still, if you’re sensitive to how your room is designed and decorated, or don’t like that your TV spends hours a day doing nothing, the Frame Pro could be compelling.
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