[Personal Experiences] Hisense TV's

[Insint]

I am looking for recommendations for a new tv.

I was wondering which will be recommended? I have been looking at these.
Hisense 55" A8H 120Hz 4K Smart OLED
and
Hisense 55" U8H Mini-LED

I will look at other brands as well but there seem to be good specials now on Hisense.
I always wanted an OLED TV but I know Mini-LED is apparently also very good.

 

[lomps8272]

I'm using the Hisense 55 A8H. So far it's been a good experience but I'm struggling a bit with the getting the colours to look good and I find some of the on screen text a bit blurry.

Would someone be willing to share their picture settings for sdr and hdr content. I am mainly using the TV with a ps5.

 

[lomps8272]

I am looking for recommendations for a new tv.

I was wondering which will be recommended? I have been looking at these.
Hisense 55" A8H 120Hz 4K Smart OLED
and
Hisense 55" U8H Mini-LED

I will look at other brands as well but there seem to be good specials now on Hisense.
I always wanted an OLED TV but I know Mini-LED is apparently also very good.

The AH8 is really good but the out of the box picture settings are not great and definitely need some calibration. There are no calibration guides for this TV online so that makes it a bit more challenging.

Haven't checked out the UH8 yet

 

[Insint]

The AH8 is really good but the out of the box picture settings are not great and definitely need some calibration. There are no calibration guides for this TV online so that makes it a bit more challenging.

Haven't checked out the UH8 yet

Thanks, I will rather wait a bit until the units are at shops where I can check how they look. I was hoping they have Android TV but that does not seem to be the case.

 

[Lupus]

Thanks, I will rather wait a bit until the units are at shops where I can check how they look. I was hoping they have Android TV but that does not seem to be the case.

They are at Stax/Sounds great. That's where I got mine from

 

[fiqi]

When I switch off my Hisense A8H the white power Led flashes every 2-3s while I'm in standby mode. If I turn the TV on again, the TV emmits a clicking noise and the LED blinking increases in frequency but the TV switches on perfectly. This flashing usually stops and the Led became a stable white if left in standby for a while. Anyone else have a similar experience?

 

[felixbf2]

I'm using the Hisense 55 A8H. So far it's been a good experience but I'm struggling a bit with the getting the colours to look good and I find some of the on screen text a bit blurry.

Would someone be willing to share their picture settings for sdr and hdr content. I am mainly using the TV with a ps5.

Did you enable HDMI advance format.?
Did you disable motion smoothing.?

 

[felixbf2]

When I switch off my Hisense A8H the white power Led flashes every 2-3s while I'm in standby mode. If I turn the TV on again, the TV emmits a clicking noise and the LED blinking increases in frequency but the TV switches on perfectly. This flashing usually stops and the Led became a stable white if left in standby for a while. Anyone else have a similar experience?

The led light can be turned off in settings, all Hisense TV's have the option.

 

[Dillon7769]

When I switch off my Hisense A8H the white power Led flashes every 2-3s while I'm in standby mode. If I turn the TV on again, the TV emmits a clicking noise and the LED blinking increases in frequency but the TV switches on perfectly. This flashing usually stops and the Led became a stable white if left in standby for a while. Anyone else have a similar experience?

Yes...I wouldn't be worried about that, the led blinking is probably an automatic pixel refresher feature active.

 

[felixbf2]

The AH8 is really good but the out of the box picture settings are not great and definitely need some calibration. There are no calibration guides for this TV online so that makes it a bit more challenging.

Haven't checked out the UH8 yet

Backlight: 100
Maximum Brightness Dynamic Range: Low / Medium
Light sensor: Off

Brightness: 50
Contrast: 70
Color saturation: 44
Sharpness: 5
Adaptive contrast: off

Ultra Smooth Motion: Standard
Noise reduction: Low
MPEG noise reduction: Middle
Color temperature: Warm 1
Overscan: Off

Color range: Auto
Black level: Auto
Gamma correction: BT.1886 or 2.2

 

[fiqi]

Yes...I wouldn't be worried about that, the led blinking is probably an automatic pixel refresher feature active.

Cool thanks. As I said it didn't affect performance in any way.

 

[lomps8272]

Backlight: 100
Maximum Brightness Dynamic Range: Low / Medium
Light sensor: Off

Brightness: 50
Contrast: 70
Color saturation: 44
Sharpness: 5
Adaptive contrast: off

Ultra Smooth Motion: Standard
Noise reduction: Low
MPEG noise reduction: Middle
Color temperature: Warm 1
Overscan: Off

Color range: Auto
Black level: Auto
Gamma correction: BT.1886 or 2.2

Awesome, thanks. I will try these out.

 

[Virex]

Which one would you all say is the best to buy?

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OLED or Quantum Dot. I don't know the difference and I only know LG tvs. But these prices are good. What's the catch?

 

[axsis]

Which one would you all say is the best to buy?

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OLED or Quantum Dot. I don't know the difference and I only know LG tvs. But these prices are good. What's the catch?

OLED (Organic light-emitting diode) are self illuminating and don't need a back light. This is great as you can get very accurate black levels. The one and only thing you have to consider is brightness but it seems people are plenty happy with that. If you have a bright room you may want to consider the U8H instead.

Mini-led (which is what you're actually comparing here as quantum dot applies to a lot of other LED tvs) uses a lot of smaller leds as the backlight because these are smaller there's much more control over the dimming area and should in theory remove effects like blooming which most LED TVs will have to some degree, in newer TVs it's not that noticeable in most cases but if you look for it you will find it. Mini-led also means you can get higher brightness levels. So this gets closer to what an OLED offers without sacrificing brightness.

I've not used either unfortunately. The reviews in this thread for the A8H are pretty good though. I'd say you can't go wrong with either. The only catch is VIDAA which you could overcome with your own media player. The caveat being that you still depend on it to manage TV settings.

 

[Romeo_RX]

Which one would you all say is the best to buy?

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OLED or Quantum Dot. I don't know the difference and I only know LG tvs. But these prices are good. What's the catch?

Lol, but you were an expert and tried to shut me down when I expressed my own opinion on mini-led vs oled.

To answer your question, the oled is miles better… but you run the risk of burn in

 

[Virex]

OLED (Organic light-emitting diode) are self illuminating and don't need a back light. This is great as you can get very accurate black levels. The one and only thing you have to consider is brightness but it seems people are plenty happy with that. If you have a bright room you may want to consider the U8H instead.

Mini-led (which is what you're actually comparing here as quantum dot applies to a lot of other LED tvs) uses a lot of smaller leds as the backlight because these are smaller there's much more control over the dimming area and should in theory remove effects like blooming which most LED TVs will have to some degree, in newer TVs it's not that noticeable in most cases but if you look for it you will find it. Mini-led also means you can get higher brightness levels. So this gets closer to what an OLED offers without sacrificing brightness.

I've not used either unfortunately. The reviews in this thread for the A8H are pretty good though. I'd say you can't go wrong with either. The only catch is VIDAA which you could overcome with your own media player. The caveat being that you still depend on it to manage TV settings.

Thanks for the reply.

I have an LG C1 OLED. But it's moving to my gaming room. But I want a new TV for the living room and I am not buying another LG C1/C2 as price would not make sense for simply just watching tv. Just want something cheaper for the living room. Hisense seems like a decent(ish) option

 

[Romeo_RX]

**** off

You’re welcome.

Some more advice you can pretend not to welcome: if you’re not willing to take the risk on OLED, the QN90B from Samsung goes on sale at around that price from time to time, it’s much better than the South African version of the U8H and will get you as close as it gets to an OLED

Our U8H has fewer dimming zones than the American version so blooming is horrendous.

 

[PDF_27]

You’re welcome.

Some more advice you can pretend not to welcome: if you’re not willing to take the risk on OLED, the QN90B from Samsung goes on sale at around that price from time to time, it’s much better than the South African version of the U8H and will get you as close as it gets to an OLED

Our U8H has fewer dimming zones than the American version so blooming is horrendous.

I have the U8HQ and the blooming is really not that bad.. sure, its present, but for the price and brightness you get, I think its a fair trade-off in comparison to the high end Samsungs, LG etc.

One gripe I have though with the 55U8HQ is that when playing HDR content via an external device such as a PS5 or Nvidia Shield Pro, the HDR picture mode darkens the screen a lot, to a point where I have to deactivated HDR within the Devices and rather view in SDR as its miles better... When playing HDR content via the Internal TV Apps like Youtube, HDR performs perfectly and bright, its just with external devices that there is something that just isn't functioning as it should. Dolby Vision is perfect, but not all Media Devices, such as PS5, support Dolby Vision, so you are forced to choose between HDR or SDR. I am currently in contact with Hisense Technical Support about it as I have seen the American Market may have received an OTA fix for that issue so we will wait and see the outcome.. Just FYI for those who may share a similar experience.

I don't quite get why Hisense reduces the number of local dimming zones for some markets and increases it for others, such as with America... Their specs are way better.

 

[axsis]

I don't quite get why Hisense reduces the number of local dimming zones for some markets and increases it for others, such as with America... Their specs are way better.

I don't get why they keep pushing vidaa. But some consistency from the brand would massively help them. The global differences are annoying and make it hard to know what you're actually getting.

Still happy with my Toshiba z770k (also made by hisense for those unaware, just android and seems to have some more dimming zones than the u7h). Blooming exists but for most media it is a non issue, basically only bright images on solid or black backgrounds.

Thanks for the reply.

I have an LG C1 OLED. But it's moving to my gaming room. But I want a new TV for the living room and I am not buying another LG C1/C2 as price would not make sense for simply just watching tv. Just want something cheaper for the living room. Hisense seems like a decent(ish) option

Since you already have an oled just go a8h since you can expect similar picture quality for TV.

 

[capd]

Still enjoying your OLEDs? Mine has been used lots through the holidays. Very happy overall with only slight motion issues occasionally. Still haven’t unboxed the PS5 (or tested the Xbox SX). Still a bargain at R23k and half the price of LG/Sony.

65A8H up to R24,999 now on Takealot. 55A8H up to R16,999.