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Ending Soon: Samsung's Cyber Week Event With Low Prices on The Frame TV, Gaming Monitors, and More

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Samsung's Cyber Week event will come to a close later this weekend, and you can still find great deals on monitors, storage accessories, TVs, Galaxy smartphones, and home appliances for a few more days.

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Highlights from this event include quite a few models of The Frame TV on sale, including a new all-time low price on The Frame Pro models. You can get the 65-inch The Frame TV for $999.99 ($1,000 off), as well as The Frame Pro for $1,999.00 ($1,200 off).



Other deals include savings on monitors like the 32-inch Smart Monitor M8 for $389.99 ($310 off), the 49-inch Odyssey OLED G9 Gaming Monitor for $899.99 ($900 off), and more. We're also tracking big markdowns on home appliances including refrigerators and washer/dryers, and a few Galaxy device discounts.

Samsung's new Galaxy XR headset also has a few notable offers during this event, including up to $1,140 in savings with the Explorer Pack. This features various content at no extra cost with the purchase of the Galaxy XR, like one year of YouTube Premium, one year of Google AI Pro, and more.

For even more potential savings, eligible shoppers have the chance to get additional discounts through Samsung offer programs. These programs provide extra discounts for students, military, and employees of select businesses, and they provide up to 30 percent extra savings on Samsung's website, so be sure to check whether you're eligible for any of these programs.

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If you’re buying The Frame for the “art,” just buy… actual art. I had the Frame Pro for a week and returned it. For $2K you’re basically getting a TV that wouldn’t crack a top-tier list five years ago. The art mode is cute, but the panel performance is abysmal. If picture quality matters even a little, your money’s straight-up getting lit on fire.
 
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I enjoy my Frame TV. Works great for art in my media area/living room, and has a nice frame that matches everything. The few times I want to watch TV it’s likely something older anyway, and does just fine. Never understood the hate, it’s not meant to be a “good” TV and costs extra just for that function, target market likely knows what they’re getting into and isn’t worried about burning cash on it.
 
Don’t do it.

Unless you want to spend thousands of dollars to put an ad billboard in your home.

I was house sitting for a friend who has a frame TV in every room. Randomly through the day the tvs would just start playing ads… with audio (!!). I don’t know how she’s accepted that that’s how they work. That would drive me mad (and it did for 2 weeks!).

Trust me, I went through the settings, asked people on Reddit and that’s just how it works. Unless you deliberately turn off the TV with the remote, then it will eventually time out of the app you were in, even if it wasn’t playing anything, and it’ll default back to the home screen where the Samsung TV app will take over and play ads. It would happen to me when I airplayed a podcast or a video or music and then stopped it, then after 10 or 15 minutes it would time out and the ads would come on. You cannot turn this off in settings. Insane!!
 
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ipedro said:
Don’t do it.

Unless you want to spend thousands of dollars to put an ad billboard in your home.

I was house sitting for a friend who has a frame TV in every room. Randomly through the day the tvs would just start playing ads… with audio (!!). I don’t know how she’s accepted that that’s how they work. That would drive me mad (and it did for 2 weeks!).

Trust me, I went through the settings, asked people on Reddit and that’s just how it works. Unless you deliberately turn off the TV with the remote, then it will eventually time out of the app you were in, even if it wasn’t playing anything, and it’ll default back to the home screen where the Samsung TV app will take over and play ads. It would happen to me when I airplayed a podcast or a video or music and then stopped it, then after 10 or 15 minutes it would time out and the ads would come on. You cannot turn this off in settings. Insane!!
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Crazy. I have one and it doesn't do that...

I only have it for the art mode. It's a pathetic TV... and only as I got a 2024 48" for about £300 and the rotating mount for £50, which is pretty aweome to have vertical movie posters.
 
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Onelifenofear said:
The frame TVs are great for art but terrible TVs. Don’t take my word for it check you tube reviews.

OLED all the way for an actual TV.
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It's not that it isn't OLED. LCD TVs can be amazing (see Sony Bravia 7 and 9, TCL QM8 and 9, etc). It's that this one specifically sucks. Hint: You can get Art mode on just about any TV if you download an app or use photos of art in a slideshow.
 
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H.E. Pennypacker said:
If you’re buying The Frame for the “art,” just buy… actual art. I had the Frame Pro for a week and returned it. For $2K you’re basically getting a TV that wouldn’t crack a top-tier list five years ago. The art mode is cute, but the panel performance is abysmal. If picture quality matters even a little, your money’s straight-up getting lit on fire.
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Frame Pro is problem prone. Frame is 1/2 the price.

The picture is fine for a general purpose screen. We gave a 2020 model and the picture is great for our dining area, and because it turns into art, we aren’t stuck with a 55” black hole on the wall.

Bought a non pro on Black Friday for the living room, same reason. The family room has a 75” tv that is intended for serious movie watching, connected to a 7.1.2 system with discrete amplifiers and full range front towers. Don’t need the worlds best picture in ALL rooms when we aren’t watching 4k HDR content at breakfast.

Bedroom has Sony OLED, an ideal bedroom TV with pitch black blacks, no light leaking, powerful “speakers” for a smaller room at bedtime volumes, and adequate brightness for nighttime viewing.
 
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As Samsung TVs owner, my next set won’t be from Samsung. What’s the energy usage for the Frame?
 
venom600 said:
It's not that it isn't OLED. LCD TVs can be amazing (see Sony Bravia 7 and 9, TCL QM8 and 9, etc). It's that this one specifically sucks. Hint: You can get Art mode on just about any TV if you download an app or use photos of art in a slideshow.
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True but it the anti reflective Matt coating and low brightness capabilities which makes these “Art TVs” but effects it as a TV. I think the Hisense and TCL ones have even better art modes. But they have their own issues

OLED would be great but burn in would be a real problem.

The killer tech would be a MicroLed with a Matt coating. Thats what they use in theme parks rides like harry potter for the moving paintings. But they are still hideously expensive.
 
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True but it the anti reflective Matt coating and low brightness capabilities which makes these “Art TVs” but effects it as a TV. I think the Hisense and TCL ones have even better art modes. But they have their own issues

OLED would be great but burn in would be a real problem.

The killer tech would be a MicroLed with a Matt coating. Thats what they use in theme parks rides like harry potter for the moving paintings. But they are still hideously expensive.
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That's exactly what people need to understand.

This isn't a bad and expensive regular tv, this is a reasonably cheap version of something that's very niche and expensive.

It's in some ways similar to glossy vs matte displays on things from Apple. Unless you specifically know why you want it, you will pay a premium for a worse experience if you buy the matte option and use it in your normal dark at-home setting or to watch something while laying in bed.
 
I ordered a frame yesterday. It's really good for its purpose.

It isn't just a panel that displays art - that, yes, any other TV can do. The reason it looks extremely convincing as an passive display is that it mounts flush to the wall. The cabling is inconspicuous. It uses the remote connect box to shift input sources away from the display. The screen is matte. It has a motion sensor to trigger art mode and also drops the refresh for power efficiency. And then there's the magnetic snap-on exterior frames to match house decor.

In my bedroom wife hates wall-mounted TVs because they look "clinical". The Frame makes it more palatable. We don't watch it often but when we do it's obviously in a night time setting.

Works perfectly for that setting.
 
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fyi the Frame PRO, which is the newer version available only in larger sizes, has different tech and better image qualities than the standard Frame which you may have read about in tests.

For our bedroom we're replacing a 2010 Samsung LED so basically no matter how 'poor' it is compared to a 2025 flagship QLED or OLED, its already going to be a dramatic improvement no matter what.
 
ikramerica said:
Frame Pro is problem prone. Frame is 1/2 the price.

The picture is fine for a general purpose screen. We gave a 2020 model and the picture is great for our dining area, and because it turns into art, we aren’t stuck with a 55” black hole on the wall.

Bought a non pro on Black Friday for the living room, same reason. The family room has a 75” tv that is intended for serious movie watching, connected to a 7.1.2 system with discrete amplifiers and full range front towers. Don’t need the worlds best picture in ALL rooms when we aren’t watching 4k HDR content at breakfast.

Bedroom has Sony OLED, an ideal bedroom TV with pitch black blacks, no light leaking, powerful “speakers” for a smaller room at bedtime volumes, and adequate brightness for nighttime viewing.
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Why would you need a TV in your dining room? Just buy real artwork. The whole point of the Frame was for people who want a main TV that blends in, not a $2,000 screensaver hung in a room nobody watches TV in. Spending that much on a fake painting when you could have a timeless real one is just wild.
 
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I enjoy my Frame TV. Works great for art in my media area/living room, and has a nice frame that matches everything. The few times I want to watch TV it’s likely something older anyway, and does just fine. Never understood the hate, it’s not meant to be a “good” TV and costs extra just for that function, target market likely knows what they’re getting into and isn’t worried about burning cash on it.
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The reason there’s so much hate is because tons of people buy the Frame thinking it’s a premium TV and then get mad when it performs like… well, a décor piece. Samsung marketed it as ‘art that’s also a great TV,’ so expectations get completely mismatched.
And even for the décor angle, that’s where people get confused too. Why spend $2,000+ for a digital picture frame when you could buy real, timeless art for less? If someone genuinely needs a TV in that spot, cool, the Frame makes sense. But buying a TV purely as wall décor instead of just buying… actual décor. Why. It still looks like fake digital art.
 
H.E. Pennypacker said:
The reason there’s so much hate is because tons of people buy the Frame thinking it’s a premium TV and then get mad when it performs like… well, a décor piece. Samsung marketed it as ‘art that’s also a great TV,’ so expectations get completely mismatched.
And even for the décor angle, that’s where people get confused too.
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Who is confused thinking it is *actually* art, or that its a premium display for the best movie viewing experience?

Its a really really simple proposition. Many people are very light TV viewers. Many people like good aesthetics and having something other than a shiny black rectangle on their wall.

Most people in the world wouldnt know LED from LCD. Its a flat panel. Its “high def”. It looks 20x better than tube TV their parents had. It serves this need perfectly.
 
Onelifenofear said:
True but it the anti reflective Matt coating and low brightness capabilities which makes these “Art TVs” but effects it as a TV. I think the Hisense and TCL ones have even better art modes. But they have their own issues

OLED would be great but burn in would be a real problem.

The killer tech would be a MicroLed with a Matt coating. Thats what they use in theme parks rides like harry potter for the moving paintings. But they are still hideously expensive.
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TCL can only use their mount and Hisense and TCL both have worse picture than the Frame.

But again, as a Frame owner for 5 years, I think those complaining about the picture for a TV that is meant to be used in spaces where a black hole on the wall would look awful don’t get it.

Yes, samsung UI is awful so we have used an AppleTV for years. It dutifully works correctly 99% of the time where waking the AppleTV turns the TV on and turning the AppleTV “off” returns the TV to art mode. We use in wall speakers and an amp for sound, with the appleTV box, amp and Frame box in wall behind the TV.

Downloading an “art app” on another TV would mean it would be on all the time and you would need to switch to a custom “art” picture setting all the time. The Frame switches to a low power, low refresh rate art mode automatically. Which means you never have to think about it.
 
ipedro said:
Don’t do it.

Unless you want to spend thousands of dollars to put an ad billboard in your home.

I was house sitting for a friend who has a frame TV in every room. Randomly through the day the tvs would just start playing ads… with audio (!!). I don’t know how she’s accepted that that’s how they work. That would drive me mad (and it did for 2 weeks!).

Trust me, I went through the settings, asked people on Reddit and that’s just how it works. Unless you deliberately turn off the TV with the remote, then it will eventually time out of the app you were in, even if it wasn’t playing anything, and it’ll default back to the home screen where the Samsung TV app will take over and play ads. It would happen to me when I airplayed a podcast or a video or music and then stopped it, then after 10 or 15 minutes it would time out and the ads would come on. You cannot turn this off in settings. Insane!!
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Disable the Samsung experience and and use a roku or AppleTV. Samsung Tizen is a reason to avoid samsung, but it’s avoidable. Android TV has similar problems but offers a way to make the interface more simple, and Roku built in allows you to make the TV “dumb” with only inputs available and now apps, ads, etc.
 
thettareddast said:
Who is confused thinking it is *actually* art, or that its a premium display for the best movie viewing experience?

Its a really really simple proposition. Many people are very light TV viewers. Many people like good aesthetics and having something other than a shiny black rectangle on their wall.

Most people in the world wouldnt know LED from LCD. Its a flat panel. Its “high def”. It looks 20x better than tube TV their parents had. It serves this need perfectly.
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I saw one with a nice wooden picture frame on it at a neighbor’s house mounted over the fireplace and at first I thought it was a picture. Had to look twice and realized it was The Frame.

It kind of depends on the art you choose. Some look like a framed print or litho with the right matting and a frame, other images are clearly not.

You can also use it to show family portraits and it really fools a lot of people if the portrait was taken professionally. We tend to alternate between a famous Turner painting and a Monet painting. The softness of their brushwork really hides any hint of digital reproduction. And the anti-glare, even on the lesser 2020 model, helps all viewing with lights on.
 
ikramerica said:
I saw one with a nice wooden picture frame on it at a neighbor’s house mounted over the fireplace and at first I thought it was a picture. Had to look twice and realized it was The Frame.
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My exact response too when seeing it IRL in peoples home. It makes you have to think twice.

If you don't pay attention, it blends in perfectly into the background -- which is its purpose. That's a very different impression when looking at digital photo-displays or a conventional tv's static image.

It's not trying to BE a fine art piece. It's a TV that hides as art when not actively used.

We use AppleTV so can happily skip all of Samsung's nasty software. The art display will be custom images we've taken or painted.
 
thettareddast said:
My exact response too when seeing it IRL in peoples home. It makes you have to think twice.

If you don't pay attention, it blends in perfectly into the background -- which is its purpose. That's a very different impression when looking at digital photo-displays or a conventional tv's static image.

It's not trying to BE a fine art piece. It's a TV that hides as art when not actively used.

We use AppleTV so can happily skip all of Samsung's nasty software. The art display will be custom images we've taken or painted.
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We never put a frame on ours because they are so pricey. But now that we are getting a second one for over the fireplace, replacing the an eyesore Sony 65” that’s 8 years old, I am considering a splurge on a frame. If it’s convincing, I will get a frame for the 2020 model. But our house is modern so thin black frames like the TV has standard on a picture aren’t out of place, just not as convincing as something thicker.
 
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