SAMSUNG 43” Class LS03D The Frame QLED HDR QN43LS03DAFXZA 2024

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Sorry to all those who have a big black blob against your wall looking overpowering and boring! I now have a beautiful piece of framed artwork on my wall which brightens up my day, and I even get the opportunity to show it off to my visitors as part of my designer decor. New artwork all the time . . . I'll have this one today . . . No, this one! Well done Samsung!!!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] There's no doubt the 65" The Frame TV is an amazing TV for the price, especially if you can snag it on a good sale like I did. Mounted to the wall this is everything the marketing promises - a TV that doubles as a beautiful painting of your choice. We have this in our living room with a lot of open windows and it handles the glare splendidly and throwing up Dune gave a great cinematic experience. I can't comment on the TV speakers as I ran the via optical to some quality powered book shelf speakers which sound great. The one box is a stroke of genius as you can get a beautiful clean mounting on the wall with all the connections hidden in the cabinet below Samsung offer a great choice of paintings for a price per painting or an admittable reasonable subscription fee, and this is where things get a bit shady. It's the classic Samsung experience of having excellent hardware that forces you to use very mediocre software. If you have ever owned a Samsung phone you are probably very familiar with the company constantly trying to force their own and usually average at best apps down your throat and making it very difficult to use anything else. It reminds me a bit of a hotel that charges for WIFI where phone reception is bad - it comes across as a bit desperate and lacks class. Unfortunately The Frame carries on this Samsung legacy. Excellent hardware and while the art app is reasonably it is very expensive and does not allow any integration with any other sources. Samsung argue that they are supporting artists but I'm pretty sure Monet and Picasso aren't seeing a dime from this and what about users who want to display their own content through other platforms? Want to use google photos as a slide show? Not possible. Yes it will allow you to load some personal photos onto the TV but it heavily dissuades you from wanting to this too often with a very cumbersome process to do so. Even if open integration was too much for Samsung to take on, a perfectly reasonable solution would be if the TV allowed you to press a button to put the screen into low power art mode with whatever you had up on the screen without being restricted to The Frame's Art App for content - that would have made this TV perfect! You could then use something like Google Chromecast TV background services, art and photos as your background. Don't get me wrong you could still achieve this with the TV on, it's just not possible in the low power art mode. In the end yes I recommend this TV - it's excellent value for the design and performance even if it is frustratingly close to perfection, only let down by a closed ecosystem.