The Samsung The Frame Pro 2025 is a new premium TV released in 2025 as part of Samsung's unique Lifestyle TV lineup. It has a unique design and extra software features that are meant to make it look more like a wall-mounted piece of art than a traditional TV, and you can buy covers that go over the TV's black bezels to change the color or give it a wood-like finish. The biggest change in the 2025 version is the addition of edge-lit local dimming, which Samsung calls Mini LED for some strange reason, and like the Samsung QN990F 8K, it uses a Wireless One Connect box. We bought and tested the 65-inch model, but it's also available in a 75-inch and 85-inch size.
Our Verdict
The Samsung The Frame Pro is a decent TV for most uses. It's best-suited for watching shows, sports, or movies in a moderately lit or bright room, thanks to its high peak brightness and matte anti-reflective coating. It's okay for dark room viewing, but it has low contrast and an ineffective local dimming feature, so dark scenes are washed out. It's not a great choice for gamers, either, as the Wireless One Connect box adds significant latency, and motion is blurry.
Excellent SDR brightness helps it overcome glare in a well-lit room.
Low-resolution content is upscaled well.
Matte anti-reflective coating effectively eliminates glare from direct reflections.
Bad local dimming feature does nothing to improve black levels.
Image is washed out from the sides.
Noticeable dirty screen effect towards the center of the screen.
Black levels rise in a bright room.
The Samsung Frame Pro TV is just okay for home theater use under reference conditions. It has fairly low contrast and a largely useless local dimming feature, so blacks aren't very deep or uniform in dark scenes. It doesn't support Dolby Vision or advanced audio formats like DTS, which is disappointing for physical media collectors, where those formats are more common. On the other hand, it has good peak brightness and very good processing overall, so it respects creative intent well enough. It has okay motion handling; it can remove judder from most sources and there are few noticeable transition artifacts, but there's noticeable stutter in slow panning shots.
Bright enough to deliver an impactful HDR experience in most scenes.
Good PQ EOTF tracking.
Judder-free from most sources.
Bad local dimming feature does nothing to improve black levels.
No Dolby Vision or DTS audio support.
Bright specular highlights don't stand out.
Noticeable stutter in slow panning shots.
The Samsung Frame Pro is a great choice for use in a bright room. It gets bright enough to overcome some glare, and the matte anti-reflective coating essentially eliminates all direct mirror-like reflections. Black levels rise the brighter your room gets, though, so the image looks a bit more washed out.
Excellent SDR brightness helps it overcome glare in a well-lit room.
Matte anti-reflective coating effectively eliminates glare from direct reflections.
Black levels rise in a bright room.
The Samsung Frame Pro is a good choice for watching sports. It handles bright room reflections well, as the matte anti-reflective coating nearly eliminates all direct reflections. It has very good processing, which is important as a lot of sports feeds stream at a lower resolution. Transitions are clean for the most part, with few noticeable transition artifacts in fast action. On the other hand, its response time is a bit slow, so fast action is blurry, and the image looks washed out when viewed at an angle, so it's not a good choice for a wide seating arrangement. There's also some noticeable dirty screen effect near the center of the screen.
Excellent SDR brightness helps it overcome glare in a well-lit room.
Low-resolution content is upscaled well.
Matte anti-reflective coating effectively eliminates glare from direct reflections.
Transitions are clean with few transition artifacts.
Image is washed out from the sides.
Noticeable dirty screen effect towards the center of the screen.
The Samsung The Frame Pro is mediocre for gaming. It has a good selection of gaming features, including VRR support and a fast refresh rate, but it has a slow response time, so even at the max refresh rate, motion is blurry. The Wireless One Connect box adds noticeable latency, though, so games don't feel responsive. There's a single Micro-HDMI port on the back of the TV that performs better, but this kind of defeats the point of this TV, as you then have to have your console close to it and have it wired in. Unfortunately, it doesn't support HGIG at the moment, so it's difficult to calibrate the HDR output from consoles, especially the Nintendo Switch 2.
Incredible selection of gaming features.
Blurry motion when gaming.
Wireless One Connect box add significant input lag.
Doesn't support HGIG, which makes it difficult to calibrate HDR from game consoles.
The Samsung The Frame Pro has good peak brightness. In SDR, it's bright enough to overcome glare in a bright room. In HDR, it's bright enough to bring out bright highlights in moderate scenes, but the brightest specular highlights aren't as bright as they should be.
Excellent SDR brightness helps it overcome glare in a well-lit room.
Bright enough to deliver an impactful HDR experience in most scenes.
Bright specular highlights don't stand out.
The Samsung Frame Pro has poor black levels. The panel's native contrast is good overall, but the local dimming feature is largely useless, as it can only dim entire columns at a time, leading to distracting halo effect and very little improvement to contrast in any real content. In real-world usage, the local dimming does almost nothing.
Bad local dimming feature does nothing to improve black levels.
Sub-par black uniformity.
The Samsung Frame Pro has decent colors. It has good accuracy out of the box in SDR and decent accuracy in HDR, so it's not necessary to get it calibrated to enjoy a somewhat accurate image. It has limited color volume in both, though, as it can't display dark, saturated colors well, and it barely displays a wide color gamut.
Good SDR accuracy out of the box.
The Samsung Frame Pro has okay motion handling. It removes judder from most sources, ensuring an even frame cadence, and there are very few transition artifacts. On the other hand, despite its slow response time there's noticeable stutter in slow panning shots, and the motion interpolation feature is largely ineffective at reducing it.
Judder-free from most sources.
Transitions are clean with few transition artifacts.
Noticeable stutter in slow panning shots.
Ineffective motion interpolation feature.
The Samsung Frame Pro has mediocre responsiveness in Game Mode. It has a slow response time, even at the max refresh rate, so fast action games are very blurry. The Wireless One Connect box also adds considerable latency, making it a poor choice for competitive gamers. There's a wired Micro-HDMI port on the back of the TV that significantly reduces lag, but it kind of defeats the point of this TV.
Incredible selection of gaming features.
Blurry motion when gaming.
Wireless One Connect box add significant input lag.
Note: We're in the process of improving our tests related to image processing, but this score should give you a general idea of how a TV performs overall with its image processing capabilities.
The Samsung Frame Pro has good processing overall. It upscales low-resolution content well, with no obvious artifacts or over-sharpening. It also does a decent job smoothing out low-resolution content without losing fine details, and its gradient handling is fantastic, with almost no noticeable banding. It has good PQ EOTF tracking, ensuring most content is displayed close to the brightness intended by the content creator, but near-blacks are raised considerably. It also doesn't support HGIG, so it's difficult to calibrate the HDR output from game consoles.
Low-resolution content is upscaled well.
Good PQ EOTF tracking.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Mar 13, 2026:
We added text to our new Cinematic Motion Handling performance usage and our new Transition Artifacts and Stutter Reduction Via Interpolation test sections after converting the review to TV 2.2.
- Updated Mar 10, 2026: This review has been updated to TV 2.2. We've added new sections for Transition Artifacts and Stutter Reduction Via Interpolation, and updated the way we test Stutter. Additionally, we removed the 'Broken' disclaimer from our Motion Handling usage.
- Updated Feb 05, 2026: We added text to the new Micro-Judder section and refreshed the text in the updated Judder and Response Time Stutter sections after converting the review to TV 2.1.
- Updated Aug 20, 2025: Review published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We bought and tested the 65-inch Samsung The Frame Pro, and the results are also valid for the 75-inch and 85-inch models. There's also a non-Pro version of the Samsung The Frame 2025, which is available in 43, 50, 55, and 65-inch models. This review isn't valid for those models.
| Size | US Model | Short Model Code |
|---|---|---|
| 65" | QN65LS03FWFXZC | QN65LS03FWF |
| 75" | QN75LS03FWFXZC | QN75LS03FWF |
| 85" | QN85LS03FWFXZC | QN85LS03FWF |
Our unit was made in Mexico in March 2025.
Popular TV Comparisons
The Samsung The Frame Pro 2025 is an okay TV designed for specific customers who don't want their TV to be the focal point of the room. With customizable frames and an Art mode, it's designed to look like a framed piece of art when wall-mounted, so it can blend in with the rest of your decor. It's by far the best TV in this rapidly growing market space, significantly outperforming competing offerings like the TCL NXTVISION or the Hisense CanvasTV 2024, but it comes at a steep price premium over other TVs with a more traditional design.
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The Samsung The Frame Pro 2025 is a significant upgrade over the older Samsung The Frame 2024. The Pro version is a lot brighter in both HDR and SDR, so it looks better in a bright room and delivers a more impactful HDR experience. The Pro also has better colors, with a wider range of colors and better color volume. The Pro also adds an edge-lit local dimming feature, which Samsung calls Mini LED, but it has nothing in common with real Mini LED TVs and the feature is largely useless. Since the local dimming can't be disabled on the Pro, the lack of this feature is actually a benefit to the older Frame.
The Samsung The Frame Pro 2025 delivers much better picture quality than the Hisense CanvasTV 2024. The Samsung gets a lot brighter in both SDR and HDR, making it a better choice for both bright room viewing and HDR viewing under reference conditions. The Samsung is also far more accurate out of the box in SDR. The Hisense has slightly better black uniformity, though, and it doesn't have a local dimming feature, which is actually a plus in this case, as it's so bad on the Samsung.
The Samsung The Frame Pro 2025 is significantly better than the TCL NXTVISION in every possible way, except cost. The Samsung is a lot brighter in SDR, so it can better overcome glare in a bright room. The Samsung also delivers a more impactful HDR experience, with brighter highlights and better EOTF tracking. Overall, although the TCL is a much cheaper TV, it's so much worse that it's not worth considering.
The TCL QM7K delivers much better performance and overall picture quality than the Samsung The Frame Pro 2025. The TCL has much better contrast, with a full-array local dimming feature that delivers deeper, more uniform blacks when viewed in a dark room. The Samsung is slightly better in bright rooms thanks to its matte anti-reflective coating, which effectively eliminates direct reflections.
We buy and test dozens of TVs yearly, taking an objective, data-driven approach to deliver results you can trust. Our testing process is complex, with hundreds of individual tests that take over a week to complete. Most of our tests use specially designed test patterns that mimic real content, but we also use the same sources you have at home to ensure our results match the real-world experience. We use two main tools for our testing: a Colorimetry Research CR-100 colorimeter and a CR-250 spectroradiometer.
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