Hisense - 85" Class S7 Canvas Series Smart Google TV 4K QLED Smart Google TV with Hi-Matte Display and UltraSlim Wall Mount (2026)

Picture looks great, the matte screen is super nice, plenty bright, the art display actually looks really great. I would recommend a sound bar to go along with it.

We are huge lovers of all genres of home shows on tv and were introduced to “gallery” tv’s several years ago. During this time, Hisense has made it worth the wait with this 85 inch Canvas TV - making what started as a lifestyle product to an everyday piece. Let’s start with size, this set is huge and heavy - if you don't have a pickup truck, ratchet straps and a friend, consider having it delivered. Unboxing is pretty straight forward, the top section lifts off and you’re done. While this set comes with feet, the beauty is having it mounted and the flush wall mount is included. My current TV was mounted with an articulating slim mount so I used that instead. Additionally, setting itself apart from the competition, the Canvas ships with a teak frame that is held on magnetically and has locking tabs for extra security. I was hoping there would be a blank frame base for those handy folks who wanted to build their own but I don't see anything yet. Connectivity is excellent with four HDMI, antenna, usb, optical and ethernet ports. Unlike the other brand, all the ports are located on the back of the set, not in an external wired box. Because this is a Google TV, you can get away with just a power cord if you are working to be minimalist in your setup. The Canvas is a Google TV and setup was as expected - sign into your account and you’re off and running. The Google interface is the same as my previous Hisense set so there was no learning curve - not that it's difficult to begin with. You can add all the apps you need from the Google app store, including games. The reason you get a Canvas tv is for the Art Mode. Unlike the competition, Hisense includes over a thousand pieces of art for free - there is no subscription required. Know that when you first turn the Canvas on, it only shows about 50 pieces but once connected this increases to thousands. From a distance, the art looks incredible. Brush strokes pop off the screen giving an incredible realness to the pieces. Pressing the menu button while in art mode brings up settings where you can add a mat and change the size, adjust rotation of the piece and play a selection in rotation. You can set timers and a motion sensor to keep the tv off until it senses someone in the room. The high matte screen is great for reducing reflections which along with the light sensor help add to the realism of the art. If you can’t find something you like, you can upload your own photos as well. My favorite part of the included art is the immersive atmospheres which have movement and sound - a great background when working around the house. One thing I’m realizing is with the size. If you are trying to sell this as art, consider placement and surroundings. Larger might not always be better. I really like the remote control. It’s backlit and the metallic look makes it look premium to match the TV. For regular tv viewing, this is a 4K QLED edge-lit panel so there are no local dimming zones. Overall brightness is excellent but blacks and darker colors can look dull or muted. Gaming and sports look great with the 144 hertz refresh. I expect most folks will use an external sound system, however, the built-in speakers are acceptable and loud enough for smaller rooms. There are enough sound settings to adjust them to your liking. Keep in mind, this set is designed first for art. If you are a cinematic aficionado, Hisense has other sets that may be more to your liking with things like local dimming or OLED displays. Overall I am really impressed with this Canvas TV. I will say my eagerness with bigger is better was probably not my best decision with this model but I am surely not mad at my choice. Five stars.

This Hisense S7 Canvas TV is an absolute monster of a tv. At 85", it dominates the living room, and the canvas aspect brings fine art directly to your house. Installation- If you are opting for the 85" model, the setup and installation is insanely challenging for wall mounting, even for professional setup. It took 4 people to lift the tv up into place. The feet mount path is not as extreme but the overall issue is the weight of the tv, and the wall mount style and instruction. The wall mount diagram just gives you a layout of the wall plates to be able to line up. But it absolutely does not give you any idea of where it mounts on the tv, or the actual layout of the tv and wallmount as a whole. This is change #1 needed. Make a paper diagram of the entire tv, with the wall mount locations added in to the diagram. After I found the stud locations and had them marked out, I had no idea how centered the tv was on the wall or where it would be overall. This genuinely made the install very difficult. The #2 change needed is the folding hook design. It is hard enough hanging a picture that uses folding hook tabs, cause when you put it up against the wall, the tab folds in flat and you have to take it down and fold the tab back down. Now, imagine that while trying to lift a 120+ pound tv over your head and getting 2 of these folding tabs to line up and hook on 2.5" hangers that keep folding in every time they hit the wall. It is excruciating. The install process is what makes this tv a 4 star rating. The #3 change needed is the box the tv comes in absolutely did not want to stand up on its own. No matter what I did, the tv kept wanting to fall over while it was just sitting in the bottom base. There needs to be better support so it can stay upright. You also need to make sure you read the setup instruction in the guide book before you put the tv up on the wall mount because there are instructions and things to follow before mounting, that are not on the mounting diagrams, like installing the cable clips in the run channels in the back of the tv, or installing the foam pads on the bottom of the tv to protect the wall once mounted. For wall mounting, you also have to make sure that at least 2 screws from each plate are mounted directly into a stud. The other 2 screws are mounted with giant drywall anchors. After that, you can hook up all of your cables. Once everything is hooked up, then you can take off the protective plastic that borders the edge. And then the giant plastic protective film that is covering the screen. Doing this after the cable install will keep fingerprints from getting all over the screen. The rest of the install is fairly simple once the tv is hung up. You need to attach the boarder, which is just magnetized. It is fairly straight forward and easy to connect all 4 pieces, and 2 screws go in the bottom to hold in place. There are corner clips that also attach to align the border correctly. Tv setup- After all of that fiasco. It's finally time to sit down and get the tv set up. This tv uses google to load apps and services. It is fairly straight forward and simple. There are plenty of options in the menus that you get to play around with, especially in display settings. My gripe with this is, that the settings never seem to stay locked in. I even select " make these changes for all sources" so it should stay the same no matter what I flip to, or what input I select. This is quite annoying, as I constantly have to keep going into the settings and changing it all back. Its a headache. General tv use- This tv is very easy to use and navigate. I have been running into a issue though that the tv starts lagging behind the remote inputs. I end up having to hold the power button and hard reset the tv, then it starts working again fine for a while. I believe a lot of these issues i've experienced can be fixed with some software updates. The main component of this tv is the Canvas feature. There is a button on the remote to go into canvas mode, which brings up paintings from all over the world and so many different artists. You can access an options menu while in canvas mode that that you can pick different types of art, and they even have some moving pictures. You can even plug in a usb stick and put up your own pictures or art. The Matte screen really does give it an art gallery feel. The canvas mode also comes up when you power off the tv. So typically you have to hit the power button twice in order to shut the tv fully off. I have not yet found a way to disable this from happening. The viewing angle of the tv is ok, but from sharp angles. You can't even see what is on the tv, so depending how the tv is mounted in your room, the canvas mode doesn't make sense if it looks like a black screen from a side angle. The overall display is amazing and so crystal clear. The 4k content really pops and the HDR really makes the colors stand out. The amount of detail is amazing. This tv does allow for optical audio out. I have other hisense tv's that let you use tv audio, and optical out at the same time. This tv does not. That is something else I wish they would change. I do not use my home theater for all tv functions, so it gets annoying to have to keep going in the menu to flip back and forth from tv audio to optical, and back. Why did you get rid of the "both" feature. Overall, this is a really awesome tv, but has so many pains to just use it, that it really makes it unenjoyable to use sometimes. Again, I feel most of this can be cleared up with some software updates, but who knows if that will happen. This is quite the niche tv, and I'm not sure how many people you could convince to buy a tv for the canvas feature. The flat wall mounting looks really cool but is insanely stressful. The display and gaming on this TV is amazing, but not so sure I could recommend this tv overall. It is quite the toss up. It does make a great conversation piece overall as well though.

We got this TV just over a week ago and we absolutely love it. We love our movies (over 2k movies owned on discs) and sports. There are many things I want to touch on with this review. Let’s get the negative out of the way first since that will be quick. QLED TVs are already known to struggle with super dark scenes at times. There was no improvement here over my older 65 inch Samsung 4K QLED. One of the first things we watched was Ghostbusters Afterlife off a Blu-ray and there was a scene in a dark tunnel that looked pretty bad for a few seconds. When you are in a black cave and the camera moves across slightly different shades of black it can look pretty rough at times. This is more the limitations of the tech but for some reason I was hoping that would be a little better. Not gonna lie, I was a little disappointed but we have watched dozens of hours of sports and movies since and that scene was the worst we came across. It was just 2 or 3 seconds. The TV itself is incredibly thin. If you use the included wall mount, which is the thinnest I think I have ever used, the entire thing only sits about 1 and 3/4 inches from the wall. That is slimmer than some of our picture frames. Hanging it on the included mount, which is split into a left and right mount, was fairly easy and straightforward. I wanted to center the TV on a wall that is only 5 inches wider than the TV and I was able to get it less than an inch off center. If the wall side plates that bolt to the wall were a little wider I could have gotten it perfectly centered (need to hit a stud on each side) but overall the mount is great. Easy to hang or remove the TV as well as long as you have a friend. Definitely takes 2 people to move this thing. Now for a feature I really did not know how I would feel about it until I had some hands-on experience. Well really it is two features that work together really well. That is the removable picture frame and the picture/art slideshow mode. The frame looks pretty nice. We are definitely keeping it on. Combined with the ultra slim nature of the screen itself it really does kind of look like a framed picture when it is in art mode. We have it set up so if the TV is on but not playing for a certain amount of time it goes into slideshow mode and will cycle through various pieces of art. I am genuinely surprised how much I enjoy this feature. There are even some pictures that have been slightly animated, like leaves blowing in the wind or water that shows a little life. I just love it all. I have not tried to add any additional art yet for it to display but the selection it comes preloaded with is really nice. The feature I was most curious to see was how MLB and NBA games look with the 144Hz refresh rate and accompanying tech. Well, the short answer is amazing. Baseball in particular looks dang near flawless. For example on my old 4K screen the ball rolling quickly across a bright green field would cause some blurriness around the ball. Not on this screen. In modern ballparks there are often large LED screens advertising products behind the batter. The lines between the player and the screens would often give some weird glitch on my old screen. I can still get the occasional minor issue here but it looks so much better. Watched a couple of NBA playoff games and again, just blown away by how great everything looks. Sometimes you can still see the occasional issue, like a wide shot of the entire court that puts the hardwood as the entire background behind a player that is moving. It might get a bit blurry or pixilated around the hair with the bright reflective court behind it. I point these issues out not to complain but just to show how specific and particular the circumstances have to be to see any issues. On any other camera shot other than the wide shots showing all the players in action, it looks consistently fantastic. I absolutely love watching sports on this thing. I do not play my PS5 as much as I used to but I did boot it back up for a little gaming session and everything looked incredible there as well. Its most impressive feature however (compared to how every other flat screen I’ve ever owned) is probably its anti-glare technology. I have the TV on right now with midday sun in a room with 6 windows and there really is not any noticeable glare. It is the best anti-glare effect I have ever seen. Finally, for normal TV or movie watching, how does it perform? Well no surprise here, it looks gorgeous. Other than the occasional specific issues with black scenes, every scene looks great. I love the specific options I have to tweak the picture as well. Some movies I like to turn interpolation off. I think sometimes modern TVs reproduce an image too well and it can look more like a movie set at times. But there are several options to tweak the picture if you are hardcore like I am with how I want my picture to look. It can also slightly upscale an image. We watched some old sitcoms from the 70s and 80s and I appreciated those features as well. All in all we love our new screen. It looks amazing, has some great features and can look like a living piece of art when not in use. The audio is also excellent for a TV but I didn’t use it much as I have a separate high end audio system I prefer. If you’re a movie collector and sports fan who wants a TV that can genuinely disappear into the room as art when not in use, this one is worth serious consideration.

Art TVs have always felt like a concept that sounds better in a showroom than it works in your living room. Most of them cost a fortune, lock you into a subscription for the artwork, or look so obviously like a screen pretending to be a painting that nobody's fooled. I went into evaluating this 85-inch CanvasTV expecting more of the same. What I got was a TV that actually surprised me in a few key ways, and frustrated me in a few others. That Hi-Matte display is what earns its keep here. I've got a living room with two large windows, and on most big screens that means you're fighting reflections all day long. Not here. Hisense's matte coating kills glare to the point where the screen looks like a flat canvas when art mode is running. Guests have walked right past it without realizing it was a TV, and at 85 inches that's saying something. Over a thousand pieces of art come preloaded in the library, free, no monthly fee. You can also upload your own photos via USB or the app, which gives it some personal flair. Design-wise, Hisense ships everything you need in the box. Teak magnetic frame pieces snap on cleanly and create nice corners. Once wall-mounted, the panel sits nearly flush against the wall, which really sells the painting illusion. But let me be clear: mounting this thing is not a casual afternoon project. You're dealing with a TV that weighs north of 100 pounds, and you need at least two strong people. Three would be smarter. Included installation instructions are borderline useless, too. Tiny print, confusing diagrams, multiple languages crammed onto oversized pages. I figured it out, but I've done a lot of wall mounts over the years. If you haven't, hire someone. Picture quality during normal viewing is solid for what this is. Colors come through rich and punchy thanks to QLED Quantum Dot, and for an 85-inch screen in a well-lit room, day-to-day content looks really good. HDR coverage is broad, supporting Dolby Vision, HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG. Gaming at 144Hz with FreeSync and ALLM feels responsive and smooth. Where it falls short is dark content. No local dimming and no mini-LED backlighting means black levels are shallow. Blooming and backlight bleed show up during darker scenes, and shadows can look washed out with the lights off. That's just the tradeoff with this type of display in this category. Audio is fine. A 2.0.2 channel setup with DTS Virtual X gets loud enough, and the larger chassis gives the speakers a bit more room to breathe than a smaller set would. At higher volumes things start to sound harsh, though. No Dolby Atmos either. You'll want a soundbar if audio matters to you. One gripe that keeps bugging me is the frame material. From across the room it looks convincing, but up close it's clearly plastic with a wood-grain pattern. For a TV this size that's meant to be a wall centerpiece, that feels like a missed opportunity. A real wood option, even as a paid upgrade, would be welcome. On a brighter note, the remote is one of the better clickers I've used. Backlit buttons that light up when you pick it up, clean layout, and a dedicated key that's actually labeled "Menu." Small things, but they add up when you live with a product day to day. For a bright living space where the TV needs to pull double duty as decor and entertainment, this does that job as well as anything I've tested in this price range. Free art library, included frame, included wall mount. Strong package. Just go in knowing that dark-room performance isn't a strength, and budget for help with the install. If your priorities are aesthetics and a big-screen experience in a room with natural light, it's worth the money.