Customer Ratings & Reviews

HiSense continues to provide great features at a good price. Unfortunately, the first unit delivered had bad pixels, suggesting quality control is still a challenge. Second unit has been great. Lost a star for the initial defective unit. Picture quality is good. Interface response is quick. Dolby Vision content has great contrast for a non-oled display panel. Onboard sound is good, but I prefer the dedicated home theater reciever. It is a bit heavey and needs a real 1Gbps wired ethernet port instead of the 100Mbps port to allow 4k streaming from my local NAS. Nice set for the black friday price but might be a little less of a deal at regular price.

We bought this TV to replace a beloved 12 yr old 60" Panasonic plasma which started to show a minor patch of dead pixels. On paper, the specs on this Hisense U8Q TV is too good to be true. On the wall,however, it has some strengths and weaknesses. Picture Quality: This TV is BRIGHT, even after dialing the brightness down. The contrast and details are amazing though, and does a good job at fighting window reflections. The high refresh rate makes motion and camera movements really smooth - a little too fast and cheap looking for my liking. I guess my old eyes just can't get used to the "soap opera effect" and gives me a headache. Luckily, there is a picture mode called FILMMAKER MODE, where you can customize the amount of judder and blur to make the motion look more natural. I noticed in the beginning that the picture mode would change from Filmmaker to Theater whenever I switched between streaming apps. Just make sure to turn off any auto content detection to keep this from happening. Sound Quality: The sound system on this TV is stinky GARBAGE. Speech and vocals are somehow muffled, tinny, and sound like it's coming out of an echo chamber. There's just no punch and projection in the vocals. It may be due to having side firing speakers instead of down firing. Surprisingly, commercials sound so much clearer and centered compared to actual movies and shows. We were so used to our old plasma, which was a sound powerhouse with no need for a soundbar. I found that sound mode set to SPORTS, sound effect set to OFF, and Dolby dialogue enhancement set to ON gives the best output from the TV. You can adjust the equalizer to your liking (it should look like a smile). Don't even bother with Dolby Atmos. Remember how you sounded when wearing a mask during Covid? Yeah that. I would still recommend this TV for it's value and no burn-in benefit being a miniLED. I'm sure adding a soundbar would greatly enhance the sound quality. The good news is that my plasma is still in good condition and will be going in the basement. I just hope this TV lasts as long.

a good picture but it turns on a few times when I am not watching it ..