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Class Up Your Walls, Slob: Samsung Arthouse ‘The Frame’ TV Is on Sale
This probably isn’t what cinephiles had in mind when they insisted TV is art.
By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan
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Your TV just hangs there on the wall when it’s not in use. Off, a blank black slab of thin glass that screams to every bystander, “Hey, I’m a TV.” Practically useless and taking up valuable room when you’re not watching it. Samsung’s The Frame TV isn’t the only “art TV” on the market, but it popularized the idea of a TV that, when you’re not watching a show or movie, displays your choice of photographs and paintings on its 4K display.
With a fancier bezel and white space between it and the imagery, mimicking a framed photo’s white space, it convincingly masquerades as the focal point of an artiste’s........