You’re buying a Frame TV? It’s okay to cheap out a little
TL;DR
The Samsung Frame TV has poor picture quality and brightness compared to other TVs, but people buy it for its art display feature. It's acceptable to choose cheaper alternatives for better performance.
Let's get this out of the way: The Samsung Frame is not a good TV. None of the displays that I'd classify as art TVs are - at least not in the ways that we usually think about TVs. They only get a fraction as bright as comparably priced TVs, picture quality is middling, black level performance is bad (even for an LCD TV), and color accuracy out of the box leaves a lot to be desired. But that's not why people buy art TVs.
Close friends of mine love The Frame on their living room wall and have asked me about Black Friday sales so they can buy another for the bedroom, even after I gave them a list of cheaper TVs that are better at being actual …