Samsung’s new The Frame TVs provide a game-changing anti-glare feature, at it comes at no additional cost.
When TechRadar recently went hands-on with Samsung’s The Frame at the company’s testing facility in New Jersey, we walked away mostly impressed with the set’s overall performance both as a 4K TV and as a medium for displaying artwork. A significant upgrade to The Frame for 2022 is an anti-glare screen, and the direct comparisons we were able to make with last year’s model proved it to be highly effective. That anti-glare feature on Samsung’s new lifestyle TVs is an embossed film coating designed to diffuse any light hitting the screen’s surface. Not only does it eliminate distracting reflections from room lighting, but it allows for fine textures in digital representations of artworks like paintings and prints to come through clearly. The effect is simple, but also so beneficial that it’s surprising Samsung didn’t think to include it in earlier versions of The Frame. Beyond the screen coating, which Samsung calls an anti-glare Matte Display, The Frame 4K TVs are QLED models with a quantum dot layer for displaying an expanded color range, and they are bright enough to satisfy in typical TV viewing situations. While not the best 4K TVs in the company’s line – the QN95B 4K and QN900B 8K models are better bets for video perfectionists – they do what they’re designed to do very well. As an added bonus, they measure up well against the best gaming TVs, with low input lag (we measured 13.2ms) and support for 4K/120Hz video.
