wife acceptance factor. It is an acronym from the home theater world from way
back and it is the reason why people buy
these Samsung frame TVs. They're TVs that look like art when you're not using
them, which is pretty sweet. Look, there's another one. That one is from
Highense, a competitor. So many people care about your TV looking good when
you're not using it and not just looking like a black square that there's
competition in this marketplace. But here's the problem. The Samsung Frame TV
that I have kind of sucks at looking like art. That looks great. Does this
new Samsung Frame Pro look any
better? Okay, cut that. What I've pulled
out of the box so far, feet, which seem
weird. Like, don't buy this TV if you plan to use feet. Wall mount it, please.
That's the whole point. Uh, looks like power cables and the remote. We'll look
at that later. An included wall mount.
Screw the feet. And this one really sucks up to the wall, I believe. And
this a wireless one connect box, which is different from the nonpro. This puppy
is going to connect to the TV wirelessly. You're still going to connect power to the wall, so your TV
won't just be floating there in space, but you won't have to fish a wire
through your wall just for this stuff.
Here we have four HDMI 2.1 ports that
all support 4K at 144 hertz, not even
120. So, that's cool. one of these little boomer nubbins over here, a LAN
port, and then a toss link um fiber
optical port. And then you can see the power port is actually USBC form factor.
What's over here? Oh, there's a pairing button now because it's
wireless. Ah, it's tradeoffs. Oh, and on
the side, you've got a couple USB ports. This is the 65in model of the Frame Pro.
One thing that differentiates the Frame Pro is that you can get larger models.
There's a 75 and even one that's over 80
because maybe you want like a life-size Jackson Pollock in your living room, not
just a 65 in one. Hell, put it in your stairwell. So,
now we're going to get it mounted on this cool flippy cart so I can show you
a 360 tour
easily. There's just a little bit of play
here, which is, you know, fine.
But now you know. I'm not going to mount it using their mount. But what I will do
is show you what's in the box. This is like an unboxing of an unboxing. This is
a template to put on your wall to help you place the mount. An anchor guide in
case you're using drywall or brick or what. Other precautions when you're mounting the wall. Little transparent
stickers that I believe are for taping the template to the wall with, you know,
just in a non-stick way so you don't screw up your wall. Mounting plates.
Look at that. That's the hook. hooks on there. And the plates that they mount to
with magnets. What are those for? How do they
work? Little adhesive pads. Thin ones and thick ones so that the other parts
of your TV that would be resting against your paint job on your wall aren't. They're resting on these. And some
fairly long and thick drywall anchors. But what I'm looking for are these
little screws for the back of the TV, which I'm going to use with our mount.
Oh my god. Bit of a weird back of the TV
because it uses the one connect box which has been around for years. Uh, and
it's weird because there's no IO other than a couple USB ports. And even that's
weird. There's no USBA. It's microb. There's a picture of a controller. And
then there's a USBC. And other than that, there are no ports except for
power, which is right here. And we'll get to that in a second. Right after we
look at the feets, which again, don't use these, but if you do, kind of a good
system. They go on toollessly, and there are two heights, low and high. The two
feet are 40 in apart, and they go on by
sticking them on and pulling them
down. Wait up. Pulling them up.
The power goes in here and they do have a cable channel. It does have little
friction teeth to bite it in there, but it's pretty weak. Um, anyway, you can
route it down towards the foot and you can use this included cable holder to
bite the back of the foot to make
stay to make it discreet.
So, this cable will still be dangling. Or ideally, you've got an outlet that's
high above your TV. Or if you don't have one of those, maybe you have one of
those kits that takes a outlet from lower down and brings it up high. Just
make sure you're adhering to your local building codes so that your insurance
isn't void. That apparently was a problem with the non-wireless one
connect boxes cuz people were running both uh power and the connection to this
through the wall and then this box comes out the bottom of your TV. And if your
house burned down, that wasn't a fire rated cable, so your insurance was not
going to help you. Uh, now that's not a problem, at least for the connection
aspect. You're on your own for the power. By the way, it also comes with
this USBC power brick, which is pretty compact and this cable. It's about 6 ft
long USBC for plugging in the One Connect box. Oh yeah, we're going to get
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off a data removal plan. Here we have the connection
screen. I feel like I'm giving a PowerPoint. Uh you can actually skip
connecting to the one connect box. Crazy. But it automatically just did it.
I didn't have to hit the pairing button on the one connect box. It's just advancing my slides for me. Um is great.
That's all true.
And another note is you can do this setup on your phone. There's a QR code to scan at the beginning of this, but I
opted to use the remote which is smaller than the remote I have for my frame.
Mine's a couple years old, but it's like this long and it's black. Um, but like
my remote, it has a solar panel uh thing
for charging or USB. See that? Switch to
art mode. That's what we're here for, boys. Try using your remote and see if
it works. I hope so. So, you hit the power. If you click the power button,
you'll switch to art mode. If you hold the power button, your TV will turn off.
So, I got a response. It didn't actually show me. Show me the art. Okay, it's
telling me the button works. Okay, brightness optimization is on. And I
think that's a good thing. And I think it relates the problem I have with my
frame, which is it's by a pretty bright window, which I believe makes it want to
crank the brightness all the time, which I believe makes it look like a normal
TV. It doesn't look like an art at all, even when dim. Um, maybe I need to turn
that setting on. Wow. Is this This is just dark patterning me. I don't care
about this stuff. I want to see the art. There's no way to get There's no button
but start setup. Bring me the arts. There it is. That looks bad. Does that
look like a matte piece of art on a canvas to you or what? It's so yellow. I
think that looks like a TV. Maybe a different art piece will be better.
Like, look at it compared to that thing. We can't compare because it's not the
right. It's You got to use a piece of art. It's a photo. This is a photo, not
an art. You're saying photos are not art. You
heard what I said. So art. I can't I
have to go to
setup. All right. Finally, we're signed in. We're ready to look at the art. Now,
one thing to consider is how you get the art onto your TV. They're about to show
us their ad for what they want us to buy for $5 a month, a subscription. You can
use your phone. Just get photos from wherever you get them or artworks from
wherever you get them and put them on there. In my experience, it was a very clunky and the app was very slow and
very janky to use. I don't know if it's just a weaponized incompetence, but man,
do they they made it so hard to put art on the TV that I just gave up and
whatever's on there is on there at this point. Highdefin artwork from top
museums and artists. That's something they could be gating. Like maybe you
can't get 4K stuff on here unless you use the membership. Art streams always
fresh. Always free. Like your Spotify, what is that? Weekly. It's also not
always free. It's a trial. Always free for one week. Always fresh. Always free.
As long as you pay us monthly, we'll keep giving you free stuff. Not ready
for art? Frame your photos. Yes, you can put your pictures on here of your kids
and stuff, which is cringe, but possible. Let's just try this Wes
Anderson barbecue. You guys know what peacocks sound like?
Trust me, that's impeccable. Impeccable. This looks like
something that would look like art if it was in front of you. Okay. Okay. Look,
there's a progress bar counting down. You can only look what's going to
happen. Give us money. That's just a lot
of money per year. Uh $8 a month. five
US a month. I feel like it should be like a buck a month or just free. You
spent so much money on this TV. Like I get that they have to license the art,
but like they can pay for that. I don't know. They have a kind of like art
dashboard here where there's well there's recent um there's my stuff which
is empty right now. Uh and then there's like these
playlists sort of from people like this this Brian RDE guy. Come on rude boy.
You like Star Wars. You could see the brightness changes when you go even to
this screen from the last one. You were like a brother to me. What
if they just kissed right then? Masters Van Go 26 pieces. It like it looks
pretty good. I wish we could pull up that one cuz I feel like this high
sense does look better. Like I feel like
this one isn't very evenly lit despite being what do they call it? a a neo
cueled which means it's mini LED. It
still is edge lit and it makes it less
evenly lit across the piece which makes it look less realistic. One of the
things the TV has to make it look like art when in art mode is a matte finish.
So you can see this very bright light,
you know, doesn't cause too much reflection on the TV. If we compare that
to the High Sense TV, actually seems
less matte. I can see this light
more, but that is a darker image on it
right now. So, not only does that help enhance the art piece looking aspect of
it, but it also helps in a room that's not light controlled for you to be able to watch TV in the middle of the day.
These TVs were really impressive like 5 years ago when they first kind of came
out, but or eight years ago, but now I
don't know. I'm thinking this high senses kind of surpassed them. Okay, we
set up the app on the phone so that we could send an image to the TV and it has
popped up like this, which is too bright. Definitely doesn't look like a
matte piece of art. Um, looks bad. But
with art that you put on, you can actually go to this settings kind of
option here and mess around. So, let's
see. You can change the color mat and the and the matte color and the photo
filter. So, let's start at the top. Um, do you want a mat around it? I think
that sometimes makes it look better. So, let's And then finally, photo filter.
Oh, Lord, what a sacrilege to do to a master. Uh, we'll
just we'll just not do one of those. But what we will do is go into the second
menu, screen settings. I think the brightness is really the problem here.
Now, people in the room, you tell me. Does that look more like art? Does that
look more like a dim TV? Dim TV. Dim TV. But what if you didn't
subscribe to real art and you didn't pirate real art. Instead, you just
created fake art. There's an AI slot mode. I'm going to seize my day. Oh my
god, look at that. You You basically get to design a prompt and then tell it to
regenerate if you don't like it. These all really look like photos more than
art. That's a good tea time photo. This
dingy room.
That is so weird. One last final thing to talk about with the art piece aspect
of this TV is the frames of the frame.
On the frame TV that I have at home, I have some frames that actually look like
this. Um, they're a light wood color and they they click on and off. And you'll
want those for these probably unless you just want black. But the problem is you
can't buy them right now at the time we're making this video. But also, you
can't just go on, say, marketplace or from your frame from your old TV and
snap them on here because they're not compatible. They're not backwards
compatible. So annoying. Um, so you're kind of just you're you're using black,
baby. That's it. Now, we want to know how good it is
at just being a TV. And well, I mean, motion smoothing's on out of the box. It
looks like a fine TV. It's like pretty vibrant right now. I was wondering if
the remote's battery was dying or something cuz like holy cow, it took a
long time for this settings menu to pop up here. As far as picture quality goes,
it seems okay. Um, starting at
$2,200 before your art subscription, before you buy frames, if and when they
ever come out, you're not getting a lot of TV for that price. You can you can
get an OLED for that price. So clearly
you're paying for the art component of it which in my opinion it doesn't do a
great job of. The other thing is gaming. Like would you want to game on this
given that it is wirelessly transmitting to its one connect box and that is your
only option. You're just signing up for input lag. Like literally out of the
box. Um so if gaming is important to you I would probably avoid this TV. In my
house I have a QLED. Um basically I have
a serious TV and then I have one of these. The frame TV in my house is a is
a secondary TV. It's like this big. It's in the living room just for casual
viewing. I don't know if I would get a
frame from like my main TV, but depends.
Uh maybe you just want a TV for um
looking at art poorly. You know, if that's your main
thing, here it is. You can do it. It
still sucks. The frame still sucks, guys. It hasn't changed my mind. Don't get the Pro. Thanks for watching, guys.
Let us know in the comments what you think. Is this something that should even be charged extra for? It's
basically just another app on your TV and a matte finish. Would you pay for
that? Would you? Would you?