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[Genciana Haggins]

If you have ever seen photos on Instagram where the person's TV looks like framed art, it's almost definitely a Samsung Frame TV. After seeing them all over the place, we finally purchased one for our family room and we had very high expectations. Now that we've had our first Samsung Frame TV for well over 3 years and our newest one for over 4 months, I wanted to share my unbiased review of this TV that looks like framed art with you.

We purchased our first Samsung Frame TV in 2021 and have loved it so we purchased our second Frame TV in November of 2023 to hang in another highly visible spot in our home. You can see the exact models we own below.

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The Samsung Frame TV is a QLED HDR Smart TV (4K), so you can use it to stream from Netflix or any of your other favorite streaming services. The Samsung Frame TV is also equipped with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, so you can use voice control features if you want to.

It uses a brightness sensor to detect when external lighting conditions change and responds by automatically adjusting screen brightness to keep the colors of your artwork consistent even when external lighting changes. And it uses a motion sensor to turn your artwork on and off based on motion (more on this later).

You can almost mistake it for a piece of original artwork hanging on the wall when you are not watching TV on it. I say almost because since it is backlit, it's never going to look like an original canvas or print hanging on a wall. But the resolution is stunning and you can adjust the white balance/tone to make it look as realistic and natural in your room lighting as possible. And without a doubt, it looks more like art than a big black box on the wall!

There are several unique features that are unique to the Samsung Frame TV, many of which I didn't even know about until after we hung it on our wall and started using it. First of all, the no-gap wall mount that comes with the TV is AWESOME. It mounts your TV directly onto the wall, exactly like a piece of art. Typical TV mounts leave several inches of space behind them.

The ability to display digital art on our Frame TV is definitely my favorite feature and it's what made it worth the price for our family room. I love, love, love how easy and fun it is to change the digital art display, and I do it pretty frequently. It's especially fun to change it up for the holidays! I added this colorful digital Christmas art to our Frame TV this past Christmas.

As I mentioned earlier in this post, you can almost mistake our 2021 Frame TV for a piece of original artwork hanging on the wall but because it is backlit, it's never going to look like an original canvas or print hanging on a wall. In addition to being backlit, the screen does result in some glare, much like a piece of glass over framed art would have. But the glare from the TV screen coupled with being backlit just results in a different look than a framed art print. So there will be a visible difference between it and other art in your home.

The latest Samsung Frame TV model features a new matte, anti-glare display that makes it look more like artwork hanging on your wall. It was made possible by Samsung switching from a semi-gloss screen coating to a matte, anti-glare screen coating.

The Frame TV hanging above our fireplace is the 2021 model (QN55LS03AAFXZA). When we purchased our second Samsung Frame TV in November of 2023, we chose the latest model (QN55LS03BAFXZA). Since we have one of each, we have a really good sense of whether the new anti-glare, matte display makes a difference.

I'm happy to report that the anti-glare, matte display is a VERY NICE feature that is a solid upgrade. Our new TV is situated by a large window that lets in lots of natural light, so glare could definitely be an issue. But I am thrilled to report that there is absolutely no glare when we are watching TV on it.

The One Connect Box runs the whole TV and acts as a hub for all of your cables and connections in one place. That means you can connect all your devices such as cable boxes, streaming devices (Apple TV, Fire Sticks, etc.) and more with the following ports:

Then the One Connect Box connects to the Frame TV with one tiny, fiber-optic cord that is referred to as an invisible connection. That cord is all you need to power it and connect all of your devices to the TV. It's pretty cool.

What you don't get for your money is a custom frame for your TV. Out of the box, the frame of the TV is black plastic and it doesn't look like a picture frame. I didn't realize that when we first started looking into it, so I feel it's worth mentioning. You can buy TV bundles that include a bezel, but you are still paying for it above and beyond the price of the TV itself.

So, we decided to make a DIY TV frame for our new TV! In the end, it cost us around $80 and I love it so much more than the frames you can order online. It's so substantial and the style is exactly what we wanted.

No matter what, you should know that you will need to buy (or make) a frame for your TV if you really want it to look like a picture frame with art on the wall and the price of the frame you choose needs to be factored into the overall price, which is expensive to begin with.

We were lucky that we already had an electrical outlet above our fireplace. So in the end, we wound up cutting a hole in the drywall behind our TV and installing a recessed media box to hold our One Connect Box and other components. You can see a photo of the hole we cut in our drywall and the box we installed below. It does mean we will need to take the TV off the wall if we ever need to reset the box for any reason, but the TV is not difficult to remove from the bracket, so we are okay with that.

I have not subscribed. I prefer to buy my high-definition digital art on Etsy for between $2.50 and $5.00 each. I find the selection to be wider and it's easier to find pieces that suit my particular style. You can see some of my favorite picks below!

If you need a TV that you only look at when you are watching it or that you spend very limited time looking at when it's off (like our primary bedroom TV) I would recommend saving your money. Just use this method to display art on your basic smart TV! We've done it in our bedroom and our bonus room (see below).

One question I have is with regard to the heat management of the One Connect box. The Samsung blurb says that the box needs to sit flat to dissipate the heat and that, if mounted in cabinet, adequate space for ventilation needs to be allowed for.

I have been considering the frame tv so I was glad to see your post this morning. When entering our house you can see the wall the TV is mounted on from the side so the fact that it sits flat to the wall is a plus for me. Thanks for your review and information!

So, in the early 2000s, a philosophy called agile, which sought to improve the software development process, became really popular in tech. In agile, software is developed in very short cycles, as short as two weeks, and the result is validated and goals realigned between cycles.

It is also customary to break up a simple task into a dozen pieces and then determine that each subtask is artificially difficult. For example, we had the task of deciding which software tool to use for a certain application. We had a list of features that were needed and four candidate tools, so we had to find out which of the tools covered more of the necessary features. This sounded to me like a simple task that could take one person a couple of days if done really thoroughly. But the task was broken up into four different subtasks to individually investigate each of the four candidate tools. Each of these four subtasks was assigned a window of many days to complete by two employees.

This cart-before-horse approach makes companies overstaff teams to build unnecessary products. I think this is another major reason for the task bloating and perpetual thumb twiddling that I mentioned above, as techies become severely demotivated when they see no point in their work. One of my friends lost all interest in his job when an additional five people were hired for his team because the topic was deemed trendy by an upper manager, even though they were coping just fine with the workload. The expansion of the team diluted the work among too many cooks, so task bloating season started.

The adoption of agile recipes also helps conceal the problem, as it creates the illusion of agility and the illusion of teamwork. If you look at it from the outside, the team seems productive because every couple of weeks new tasks are completed and other tasks are collectively planned. It also seems that there is a lot of teamwork, as everyone meets all the time.

This right here is why I retired during the pandemic. As a product manager I had grown dissatisfied with corporate Agile and all the bloat. I was so tired of never delivering the product that customers needed. When my last gig came to an end because the company feared what was happening in 2020, I decided it was time to not go back. I feel for everyone who is dealing with this now. It is soul-sucking.

I work in tech since 10 years as a developer and I realize more I grow less I do, but let me say It is a good thing. I often feel bored about my work, and this is ok. I don't search life satisfaction from work. Salary work is a SHIT, work basically consist in make money for the owner. The company owner stole for employee the surplus value of our work. So less I do less they can stole from my work.

I've been working for many years in tech industry, I've seen useless people doing almost no job but that's clearly their fault and not the company fault. I have always a lot of work and produce a lot of stuff every week. I've never been in a company where I couldn't find work for myself for several month without anyone handing me tasks. And of course, I do get tasks being handed over. It looks to me that either you are a genius being able to do days of work in a few minutes (unlikely) or work with the dumbest colleagues in the dumbest company and preferred not doing anything than improving the team.

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