Samsung Frame Pro (2025) Review

Design

• Customisable bezel
• Sizes start at 65 inches
• Matte screen

This 75-inch model, at least when taken out of the box, is functional in terms of looks, but there’s the ability to customise with bezel options sold separately. Phantom Brown, Beige Wood, and White will bring more colour to a room than the humdrum black version.

The Frame Pro only exists in big sizes – 65-, 75- and 85 inches. With a wall bracket, it can be hung on a wall, which is where the Frame is intended to go. If not, there are feet to place it on.

The feet clip in – you can choose the height to slot a soundbar beneath the TV – and you can place them out wide or in the middle. That level of flexibility is helpful, as is the fact that this is the easiest TV to assemble. The feet can be attached within 20 seconds.

The matte screen does a fantastic job of suppressing reflections and bright lights. In a bright room, the only thing I see is the picture on the screen.

Viewing angles do peter out once you’re on either side of the TV, and at acute angles it’s washed out. It’s fine from head-on, but 75 inches is ample space to fit three people in front of.

Connectivity

• Four HDMI 2.1
• Wireless One Connect

Some odd specs are circulating about the Samsung Frame Pro. The Samsung website lists five HDMI inputs – unless there’s one hiding, I can only see four.

These four HDMI inputs are on Samsung’s Wireless One Connect box, which means you can position it where you want and it’ll send picture and sound to the TV via Wi-Fi.

Unlike the wired One Connect box, which powers the TV, this version only powers itself and requires an additional power cable for the TV.

Otherwise, the four HDMI inputs are all HDMI 2.1. You’ve also got two USB inputs (USB-A, USB-C): CI slot, aerial/satellite inputs, digital audio output and an Ethernet port, which feels odd considering the box has to make a wireless connection to the TV.

Wi-Fi 5 (AirPlay 2) and Bluetooth 5.3 are the wireless means of connecting to the Wireless One Connect box.

User Experience

• Tizen interface
• SmartThings support
• Laggy performance

I was a little worried about how responsive the interface would be with a Wireless One Connect box, and it turns out those concerns were right.

The Tizen interface is rich with streaming apps to call up, Samsung TV Plus for free content, and plenty of cloud gaming options, including the Xbox app.

The 2025 version integrates the new One UI menu option. It takes up less space on the screen than the older menus and remembers where you’ve visited during a session, offering a shortcut so you don’t have to keep diving through all the menus.

The problem with the menu is that it’s laggy – the four loading dots made very frequent appearances over the course of two weeks of testing.

Accessing menus doesn’t feel quick or snappy. I’ve found that pointing the remote at the Wireless One Connect box speeds up the response, but the remote doesn’t always work – and after a couple of days, I couldn’t turn the TV on with it.

Using SmartThings circumnavigates this, but this option slowly becomes laggy too, with two attempts needed to turn the TV on. There have been times when the TV has turned on to show a black screen before the home screen appeared.

The lag was so long on another occasion that, logging into Netflix, I could hear the soundtrack of a programme playing before I got past the login screen. Streaming video stutters, too.

Samsung guarantees seven years of updates to its Tizen OS, and a first port of call for a firmware update is to speed up that interface.

Features

• Art Mode
• Alexa voice control
• Samsung Vision AI

The raison d’être of the Frame Pro is its Art Mode, offering a gallery of art from museums across the world (for a subscription fee). There are 30 complimentary artworks you can sample every month.

There’s a brightness sensor that automatically adjusts the brightness of the screen so you can see your artwork at its best. And it doesn’t have to be prestigious artwork from the Louvre – you can add your personal photos too.

A motion sensor built into the TV can automatically switch from the Frame Pro’s TV mode to its Art Mode when it senses there’s no one in front of the screen, but this has to be enabled through the settings.

Samsung’s Vision AI is the umbrella under which all the AI features converge, personalising picture, sound and the interface, as well as connecting to other devices (like a Galaxy Watch for control) and securing private information through Samsung Knox security.

The screen is a Mini LED backlight with support for HDR10, HLG, HDR10+ Adaptive and HDR10+ Gaming. You’ve also got Filmmaker Mode for accurate colours.

There’s Dolby Atmos sound, and a feature called 360 Audio (which I assume might be the Eclipsa Audio feature). The 40W, 2.0.2-channel speaker system also supports Samsung’s OTS system that tracks audio across the screen, and the Frame Pro is compatible with Samsung soundbars that support its Q Symphony technology.

Smart assistants include Samsung’s own Tizen and built-in Alexa for voice control and search. For a ‘lifestyle’ TV, the Frame Pro packs a hefty amount of features.

Gaming

• Up to 144Hz refresh rates
• Laggy latency

Gaming is another area where, on paper, the Frame Pro has impressive specs. Though it’s a 100Hz screen, with some processing trickery, it can hit variable refresh rates up to 144Hz with PC titles. It also supports AMD FreeSync Premium Pro VRR.

ALLM puts the TV quickly into its game mode, while Super Ultra Wide Game view for PC titles offers a bigger image, and there are other features such as the Mini Map zoom and HGiG support.

Input lag, however, is not great. I could only get 37.5ms, which is very laggy and puts a hefty dent in Frame Pro’s gaming credentials.

Picture Quality

• Colourful images
• Blacks look more purple
• Not the best contrast

I’ve reviewed one of Samsung’s older Frame TVs and liked it. For a lifestyle TV, its performance was respectable. As soon as you put the word Pro into a name, you are expecting a step up in performance. Unfortunately, the Frame Pro is only ‘Pro’ in name, not in nature.

With its Neo QLED branding, this ought to be a Mini LED screen, but I’m not convinced the Frame Pro makes the best use of its backlight.

While a reading of 822 and 957 nits on 5 and 10% HDR windows seems respectable, black levels and contrast are lacklustre.

Spinning up a 4K disc of First Man and the scene where the Apollo 11 crew see the Moon for the first time, and control of blooming is well done. But aside from a few shots, it’s not the brightest performance – the brightness of the sun or the moon’s surface lacks some zest.

Swapping in and out films and black levels look more purple in some scenes, as well as a slight green tint to darker areas too. Gradation from dark to brighter colours is poorly managed in Civil War.

Switching to Bad Times at the El Royale in HDR10+ and dark scenes either lack detail or show some distracting stripes.

The set’s local dimming flares up in a scene on a beach where Chris Hemsworth’s Billy Lee meets Cailee Spaeny’s Rose, the TV playing catch-up when a character moves in and out of the sunlight. In another scene, there’s brightening and darkening when a character speaks to a concierge for a scene that doesn’t seem too demanding in terms of light control.

But just to frame the inconsistency, with Zero Dark Thirty, black levels appear fine in terms of looking ‘black’, but lack both depth and detail. Playing with the Contrast Enhancer setting brightens the image and reveals more detail in the darkest areas, but it’s not the best solution for everything.

It’s not the sharpest image, which is down to the sheer size of the screen, and while its colour performance is not the most refined, it is enjoyably rich with Jurassic World: Dominion and Bad Times. With content set during the day, that’s where the Frame Pro seems most happy dealing with.

As far as motion processing is concerned, give the Auto mode a wide berth as it produces a softer image that lacks detail. When there’s a lot happening on screen, it causes a slowdown for a stuttery, jerky performance. The Custom setting is pretty much perfect – more detail and clarity make their way through, stutter is reduced, and motion is smoother. Why even bother with the Auto mode?

Upscaling

• Good colours
• Deals with noise in impressive fashion

There’s not much to complain about the Frame Pro’s upscaling abilities – in fact, it’s probably the most impressive aspect of the TV’s performance given its size.

With a Blu-ray of Dune, it doesn’t boast the sharpest image, but detail levels are good for a screen of both its size and one with a matte screen. Colours look accurate enough to my eye – it reads the Atreides’ uniforms correctly as with a green tint and not black – but even with HD resolution, the black levels don’t look quite right.

Dropping down to an ageing DVD of Star Trek and I’m impressed by the level of clarity and detail that the Frame Pro retrieves, whether it’s from the various settings of the film, costumes or the detail from characters’ faces in close-ups.

There’s noise, but it’s managed well and doesn’t distract on a screen of this size – the AI upscaling doesn’t make low-resolution content look like 4K, but it does improve how it looks.

Sound Quality

• Lacks excitement
• Lacks bass
• Distorted sound at higher volumes

I’ve said it before about Samsung TVs, and it seems I’ll continue saying it – they just don’t sound very good.

The slimmer the TV, the more compromised its sound system becomes, and the Frame Pro is as bass-light and tame as they come.

Setting it to volume 75 with the Amplify mode setting (the Standard mode sounds limp), and things don’t get off to a good start with a buzzing noise emanating from the speakers at the beginning of Break Point’s second series on Netflix.

With Civil War in Atmos, there’s clarity, but there’s little in the way of punch and power, with several sequences sounding hollow and light. There’s a scene – chapter six in the film – that’s uncomfortable for most TVs to handle and proves the case with the Frame Pro, which handles distortion with the highs and the lows.

Dialling the volume down to 50, the TV sounds more controlled but lacks excitement. With the Civil War’s battle sequence in a fallen Washington, D.C., the distortion through the TV’s speakers is some of the worst I’ve heard.

At least Samsung’s OTS (Object Tracking Sound) system brings height to scenes, makes dialogue clear, and positions sounds across the screen’s width, but this is a lacklustre performance. If you’re set on the Frame Pro, a soundbar is an absolute must.

Should you buy it?