Samsung Electronics has updated its most popular lifestyle television, debuting The Frame TV 2004 at CES and spinning off The Music Frame, a wireless speaker with Dolby Atmos capability that also displays favorite photos or artwork. The Frame TV offers improved energy efficiency and a larger selection of display images. The Music Frame, which takes its inspiration from The Frame TV, features built-in woofers and intelligent audio processing for “a premium audio experience.” It can serve as a standalone wireless speaker or, using Q-Symphony, can provide surround sound when paired with 2024 Samsung TVs and soundbars.

“Unlike the TV, the Music Frame doesn’t make you choose between listening to music and gazing fondly at your favorite family portrait — the picture doesn’t disappear when you turn off the tunes,” writes Digital Trends.

The Music Frame “blends into its environment by camouflaging as a modern picture frame,” hanging on a wall or freestanding with a kickstand, per The Verge.

Comparing it to “a slightly lower-tech version of LG’s wild DukeBox concept,” Digital Trends says “The Music Frame joins a very small club of standalone speakers that are Dolby Atmos compatible, like the Sonos Era 300, Apple HomePod, and Amazon Echo Studio.”

The device has “two woofers, two tweeters, and two midrange drivers [that] automatically tune themselves to your room’s acoustics using Samsung’s SpaceFit calibration tech,” reports Digital Trends.

The Music Frame has Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for ad-hoc streaming from a smartphone, tablet, computer, or Samsung SmartThings gadgets, or use it to augment a multiroom wireless audio setup. It also contains an IoT hub, “giving your smart home devices yet another way to stay connected and accessible,” explains Digital Trends.

Those with Samsung TVs or soundbars can add The Music Frame as a TV speaker, rear speaker or subwoofer. A second Music Frame can be stereo-paired or used as part of a left/right wireless surround configuration.

CNN says “you can use the Music Frame as your speaker for a non-Samsung TV — the pairing and compatibility just won’t be as seamless.”

As for updates to The Frame TV, Tom’s Guide says “the most consequential” change to the popular model — which debuted in 2017 and has been improved many times — “is a new eco-minded setting that will actually kick down the refresh rate of the TV when in it’s in art mode (when you’re not watching a show or movie), taking the anti-reflective 4K TV display down to 60Hz from a 120Hz signal.”

CNN adds that The Frame TV is “also getting an updated content ecosystem with the Samsung Art Store online (with subscriptions from $5 per month to $50 a year) adding high-res art from even more major institutions, “including New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Spain’s Museo Nacional del Prado and the National Gallery in Singapore.” Samsung also offers a free tier.

Samsung did not disclose pricing or availability for either product.