Samsung’s The Body has been enormously well-liked ever since its launch. There’s no scarcity of imitators at this level, with different producers making an attempt their hand at making a TV that seamlessly blends in with dwelling decor and may convincingly appear like wall artwork when idle. However none have captured lightning in a bottle fairly like Samsung.
And in 2025, Samsung is seeking to fend off copycats by introducing The Body Professional. With the paintings facet of issues properly dealt with, now the corporate is aiming to make The Body Professional a superb TV for every part else. The Body has nailed the aesthetics and magnificence from the beginning. Folks purchase it for the vibe greater than anything. However as a TV, it’s all the time simply been, properly… nice. There wasn’t a lot wow issue by way of brightness or the general image high quality that got here with the great design. That is likely to be altering now.
There are two fundamental upgrades that put the “professional” in The Body Professional. First, Samsung is shifting to Mini LED, which the corporate says will give The Body Professional a lift in distinction, brightness, and black ranges. The common Body, which isn’t going wherever, has by no means provided any native dimming to talk of.
However there’s an necessary caveat: this isn’t Mini LED within the common sense. Usually, Mini LED TVs include a ton of small dimming zones behind the display screen. This lets them be far more exact in lighting up solely the sections of the show that want it whereas preserving black ranges and shadow element elsewhere. The Body Professional doesn’t do this.
As a substitute, Samsung is inserting Mini LEDs alongside the underside of the display screen, whereas claiming that this method nonetheless produces some stage of native dimming. To me, all of it nonetheless very a lot seems like an edge-lit TV. However I’ll give this “Mini LED” tech a good probability each time I get one in for evaluate.
Samsung can also be boosting The Body Professional’s most refresh price from 120Hz to 144Hz, so PC avid gamers can get even smoother visuals than earlier than. However for those who had been hoping “professional” would possibly lastly imply Dolby Imaginative and prescient help, that’s nonetheless a no.
The Body has all the time been one thing of a compromise; perhaps you’ve obtained a major different who refuses to permit a uninteresting black rectangle into the lounge. So that you, being the nice and thoughtful particular person you might be, in the end conform to “settle” on The Body. After first listening to about The Body Professional, I used to be hopeful that it might be a lot much less of a compromise.
However this asterisk round Mini LED has me rather less excited. Like latest fashions, The Body Professional’s show has a matte end to provide your most popular artwork a extra genuine look and masks the truth that you simply’re a display screen. However matte screens can typically reduce a show’s punch, so real Mini LED backlighting may’ve helped fairly a bit in that regard.
The second main enchancment is that The Body Professional not has a skinny wire operating between it and Samsung’s breakout field that homes all of the HDMI inputs and the TV’s different brains: that connection has gone totally wi-fi. This can lead to a good cleaner look with much less cable litter. And the Wi-fi One Join Field, which helps as much as Wi-Fi 7, eliminates yet one more telltale signal that The Body Professional is a tv. Now, all you’ve obtained to fret about concealing is the show’s energy wire. Samsung says the wi-fi connection between the field and TV works at distances of as much as 10 meters, “even with obstacles in its path.”
The Body Professional can also be getting the identical litany of AI-powered options as Samsung’s different 2025 TVs. AI is such a spotlight this 12 months that there’s a devoted button on the distant for activating Click on to Search, which may present you “who the actors are in a given scene, the place that scene is going down, and even the clothes the characters are carrying,” based on Samsung’s press launch.
A brand new Samsung Meals function can acknowledge dishes onscreen and give you the recipes to make them — or one thing in the identical ballpark, a minimum of. Past that, the corporate is dialing up its AI-enhanced image and sound optimizations, and AI can also be reaching into accessibility options like Stay Translate, which may “immediately translate closed captions on reside broadcasts in as much as seven languages.” That’s very neat.
The vital query is one I can’t reply but: how a lot will this factor value? How way more costly will The Body Professional be in comparison with the common mannequin? Samsung received’t be sharing pricing particulars till nearer to the spring when it ships. If the corporate will get cocky and goes too excessive, that might damage quite a lot of the enchantment right here. However for those who already know that some model of The Body is in your future, you’re in all probability very joyful that The Body Professional now exists.
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