topic Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show in TV

Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

yroey — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 12:51:27 GMT

I've tried to look it up on the app and online, but I couldn't find a way to choose a mat when running the art mode to a slide show. All the pictures take up the entire screen which really takes away from the "real picture frame" experience 😕

It'll be great if there was an option to set the default mat for all pictures in the app's settings.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

danlun59 — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 17:35:21 GMT

Absolutely agree. Yes this must be a standard. Why have The Frame Slideshow if it doesn't support automatic mat.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

GQue — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 14:10:10 GMT

Agreed! I'm really disappointed in the art mode functionality and it's the only reason I bought this tv. Otherwise I would have just gotten another OLED that has a better picture IMO.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

Mescalamba — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 09:30:30 GMT

A) make own mat in PhotoShop and make sure result has 3840x2160 pixels

B) use 8bit jpeg/png images of resolution 3840x2160 or less and then pic mat in the TV

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

danlun59 — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 09:48:40 GMT

Hi, yes but I'm talking about all the standard pictures / paintings included in Samsung, this are the ones that I use, and want a function to switch on a Samsung mat when doing a slideshow.

On the other hand Im not sure what you mean with your two points. Are you suggesting you create a mat yourself and then add that to all paintings manually? But not on Samsungs material I assume?

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

Mescalamba — Sun, 17 Oct 2021 11:06:21 GMT

Ah, never used those. Not possible to assign to them mat on per-pic basis?

With own material it works fine.

Yea I make own mats for my own pics, they work better than ones in TV. Especially since I want often two pics per view (portrait orientation). I think really big Frames can actually do that too, but mine is just 43", so they probably didnt expect ppl to use it like that.

To be honest, considering what The Frame is, it doesnt seem they expected ppl to actually use it as actual Frame. Support for picture side of things is absolutely ***** poor.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

kg7 — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 19:54:16 GMT

This is the exact question I came here to find out. I bought a Frame TV instead of buying art for my wall and I love it. But the default for most pictures is to have no mat and that looks much less nice than without.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

Mescalamba — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:47:11 GMT

Mats are possible only for your own stuff that you upload manually into TV. And it must be in 8-bit format (PNG, JPG).

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

ksleini — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 12:46:44 GMT

In order to do the slideshow mode, you'll have to add photos to the TV itself (it supports about 500MB) and hit start rotation. I don't usually use the rotation, as I prefer to keep different paintings up for each season.

I believe there's a way to have it loop through your Samsung cloud like the ambient mode on the QLEDs, but I've never tried it. As for picture quality, it's fine, it's still cinema hd an edge lit, but it's one of the best edge lits on the market, if not the best. (Since it is just a Q60 with better uniformity)

Don't take it personally, there's a lot of stuck up snobs on here that like to flex. The Frame is fine, especially if you're one of those people trying to work around a picky spouse that doesn't want any TV in the space you're wanting to use.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

Chad Marshall — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 14:27:43 GMT

Perhaps Samsung will hear this complaint and add this feature via a software update. Samsung are you listening???

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

Rick99 — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 03:11:57 GMT

Agreed, "mat format for slide show pictures" should be a thing. Samsung phones excel at providing choice in configuration. I hope the TV department at Samsung follows suite and this feature gets into the next release update.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

RediePlayerOne — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 04:43:01 GMT

The only way I have concluded this can be done is for each art work in the curated set you must first select each individual art work and customize the mat. This appears to be a saved setting on that piece of artwork. Now, when you go to play the curation as a slideshow the each artwork will use the mat that you customized for it. It's a bit of work but it can be done. Hope this helps someone.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

WeeklyWebster — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 00:26:28 GMT

I've loaded 5500 pictures on my new Frame. "It's a bit of work" would take 40 hours of non-stop configuring to add a different mat to each one.

I am STUNNED that the mat isn't a global setting.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

Daniel V — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 18:36:40 GMT

@Samsung
is there an update coming which will make it possible to adjust mat settings on multiple photos?

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

VVet6768 — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 06:33:19 GMT

The whole thing needs to be rewritten to support folders so you can have different slideshows for different seasons/occasions/mood and also default mat selection for photos. In addition, the whole mat section should provide for infinite color selection just like Microsoft apps do. the current selection of colors is horrible. But then, again, I don't think anyone at Samsung cares. Hopefully, we'll get some competition in this arena.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

JGreene33 — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 15:03:25 GMT

This is absolutely insane that it is not a global setting. Very disappointing.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

bbj14 — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:34:11 GMT

+1. It is insane that there is no way to at least choose the mat settings for multiple art works. As a software engineer, I know this feature is just a few lines of code. Come on... Please fix this. This beautiful product deserves some better software engineers to work on this.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

WG505 — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 17:06:59 GMT

Just here to add my vote that there should be a way to select mat by default. The art mode is the reason I bought this TV and with the mat on it looks great. In a slideshow you can go through and manually select a mat for each and every image, but come on! That’s so dumb!

In general this seems to be the norm for Samsung software. Great ideas that they took to 90% complete and then left the last few details undone, making what could be an awesome experience into a frustrating one.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

shell57 — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 08:08:49 GMT

I'm also stunned that you can't set a default mat for a collection or everything. It doesn't look like a piece of art without the mat -- isn't that THE POINT of this tv?? Sadly I've got to pack it up and return it - useless. What a waste of time.

Re: Frame TV: Mat settings for slide show

Kaypod81 — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 07:47:04 GMT

Agree!!! It’s tedious to have to choose a mat for every single picture.