Whether you're looking at Hisense's flagship or budget-friendly models, they offer better value than similarly-priced options from competitors. Hisense TVs are often among our mid-range and budget-friendly recommended TVs. Adjustable feet let you select table stand width to accommodate soundbar placement. (Image credit: Future) Hisense U8H review: sound quality Subtitles and audio description information displayed on electronic programme guide programme banner Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven is a good showcase for landscapes and skies, and the smooth transition between colours appears capably handled; the TV giving a good sense of the film’s picaresque beauty with its different tones and hues. Contrast is also pretty good, with dark and bright elements coexisting to create a sense of depth. You or any third party (directed by you) may not display, copy, store, modify, sell, trade, resell, reproduce, publish, broadcast, redistribute, or make derivative works of any Materials, whether a portion of or in their entirety, and such displaying, copying, storing, modification, sale, publishing, broadcasting or redistribution shall be prohibited unless you have obtained all necessary rights and permissions from us or each of the respective relevant owners or right holders of such Materials or as permitted by applicable law. Unauthorized use of the Materials is prohibited and may result in criminal prosecution and/or civil liability, for which you shall be solely responsible.

All picture and sound adjustments (aside from volume and mute) must be accessed from their repective setup menus. On the picture side, along with local dimming there are advanced settings to tweak gamma and white balance, as well as a full color management system, although those adjustments are best left to calibration professionals. Regular viewers interested in getting the best picture quality for movies would do well to start with Filmmaker mode, and any adjustments you make there can also be applied to the set’s other inputs. The U8Q does not factor in HDMI 2.1, so remove VRR, ALLM, HFR (4K@120Hz) and eARC from the equation. There are no buzz-worthy modes in Filmmaker Mode or Dolby Vision IQ either, so if you’re not concerned by any of those features here’s what the U8Q has to offer.

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Listed below are all Hisense devices that are certified for use with BBC iPlayer. The devices listed have been submitted to us by Hisense, meet our standards, and have passed our tests. The U8QF has a JBL Audio sound system based on stereo speakers and 20W of amplification. It also supports Dolby Atmos, with internal decoding built-in and an immersive experience created through the application of psychoacoustic processing. Max light output HDR (high dynamic range) while displaying small white square taking up 10% of the screen (measured in Nits)

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To learn about how Hisense protects and handles your Personal Data and other information when you use the Smart Services, visit our Data Protection Policy (available at your Device first setup process or go to “Home” screen, select “Settings”, select “Support”). All forms of HDR are supported in HDR10, HLG, HDR10+ and Dolby Vision. Hisense says the panel can achieve a peak brightness of 1000 nits, but I’d imagine it’s less than that figure. Nevertheless, there’s a brightness and punchiness to 4K HDR sources that gives a good impression of what HDR can do. Motion was decent on the U8QF with no noticeable induced judder with 24fps material when Ultra Smooth Motion was switched off and applying pulldown. We also noted some obvious motion trailing behind objects and other artefacts with some fast-moving material. When using the Ultra Smooth Motion settings you see soap opera effect from the interpolation straight away and, as you apply higher settings, image artefactssuch as false edges, trailing edges and image break up around fast-moving objects become much more noticeable. There are custom controls for Blur and Judder which you can experiment with for sports or other video content with fast movement, but for film and drama, we recommend switching it to off. It has Dolby Vision and HDR10+ support, as well as advanced DTS audio format support, but its low-quality content smoothing is poor, so it isn't as good for a home entertainment center as the higher-end models. Still, it's cheaper than the other TVs, and for the price, it's one of the best budget models currently on the market. If you're not looking for high-end performance or features, you'll be very satisfied with the U6.

This cookie is set by Bazaarvoice. This is a session cookie used for internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user browsing session for interactions within a particular client domain. Google Assistant works well to command things like specific volume adjustments (Hey Google, reduce volume to 50%), content searches (show me 1980s horror films I can watch for free), and even input selection (switch to Blu-ray player input). And while Google is definitely pushing movies you can watch free (with ads, of course) on its own YouTube channel (these show up in a big window at the top of the TV interface), the general content recommendations seemed to sync up pretty well, revealing, for better or worse, a high level of familiarity. Subtitles and audio description information displayed on electronic programme guide more info panelThe Hisense U8QF comes with plenty of features but compared to an LG or Samsung it is more limited in scope. Despite its premium status, we’re still hovering around the value-added area here. You are not permitted to transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of this EULA which is personal to you, or any of your rights or obligations arising under this EULA without the prior written consent of Hisense.