[Personal Experiences] Hisense TV's

[FoxFire675]

I am pretty happy with my 55 inch U7H

Yeah did have to tweak a bit and turn "most" of the extra processing stuff off. Have watched using the "apps" - Plex, Netflix, DSTV and Showmax all work very well for my use case.

I will try a few HDR movies of my "external" - PS: not on 4K Netflix (HD is fine)... But yeah sort of defies the purpose

Will upgrade to 4K soon (Netflix says it is just R40 more - price of a beer nowadays .. at the PUB).

I watched the new Black Panther off a flash drive on the TV and the colours waayyy off in some scenes. I thought the copy I had may have been the issue. Just to check, I plugged it into my C1 and everything was fine. Logged into Disney+ on the C1 and watched it there to compare and it was almost identical. My only conclusion was it was the processing on the Hisense that caused the issue.

I watched some Netflix at my Aunt’s on her U6H and I have to say, I didn’t notice any of the bad motion issues of the older TVs. Hisense seems to be solving that problem.

Motion I can agree on. I didnt experience any motion issues on my U7H.

 

[jasweb]

I watched the new Black Panther off a flash drive on the TV and the colours waayyy off in some scenes. I thought the copy I had may have been the issue. Just to check, I plugged it into my C1 and everything was fine. Logged into Disney+ on the C1 and watched it there to compare and it was almost identical. My only conclusion was it was the processing on the Hisense that caused the issue.


Motion I can agree on. I didnt experience any motion issues on my U7H.

Yeah need Disney+ on the VIDAA @Hisense

 

[Ryno']

A lot of power in standby mode? That is odd, shouldn't really. Also my 65" OLED can be great on power and it can also shoot up to 200w easily

My inverter shows it’s using around 150w in standby during load shedding. I wonder if there’s an issue with the tv or a setting I’m not aware of but I couldn’t find any. Or maybe even an issue with the inverter, but I doubt that. Is there another way to check power usage in standby mode?

 

[jasweb]

My inverter shows it’s using around 150w in standby during load shedding. I wonder if there’s an issue with the tv or a setting I’m not aware of but I couldn’t find any. Or maybe even an issue with the inverter, but I doubt that. Is there another way to check power usage in standby mode?

https://www.geewiz.co.za/gadgets/43...ll-a-watt-measure-your-electricity-usage.html seems to work well (for me at least)

 

[Lupus]

My inverter shows it’s using around 150w in standby during load shedding. I wonder if there’s an issue with the tv or a setting I’m not aware of but I couldn’t find any. Or maybe even an issue with the inverter, but I doubt that. Is there another way to check power usage in standby mode?

Do you have anything else plugged in? Xbox, decoder, sound bar? As 150w on standby is insanely high, at most a TV would use maybe 10w on standby.
My system with the Xbox on quick resume mode + router + decoder will only use 26w.

 

[Romeo_RX]

Wouldn’t the colours improve after calibration? I did notice that the U6H had iffy colours, but I thought that was a gamut/calibration thing and not a processing issue.

 

[Ryno']

https://www.geewiz.co.za/gadgets/43...ll-a-watt-measure-your-electricity-usage.html seems to work well (for me at least)

Thanks, will give this a look.

 

[Ryno']

Do you have anything else plugged in? Xbox, decoder, sound bar? As 150w on standby is insanely high, at most a TV would use maybe 10w on standby.
My system with the Xbox on quick resume mode + router + decoder will only use 26w.

The decoder, fibre router and ONT is plugged in but the load shows zero when it’s just these. Plug the tv into mains without switching it on with the remote (standby) and it jumps to 140+. When the tv is on it hits 330+. So maybe the tv is not pulling the full 140+ watts in standby but it’s probably still doing over 100, right? See attached 3 scenarios.

 

[Lupus]

The decoder, fibre router and ONT is plugged in but the load shows zero when it’s just these. Plug the tv into mains without switching it on with the remote (standby) and it jumps to 140+. When the tv is on it hits 330+. So maybe the tv is not pulling the full 140+ watts in standby but it’s probably still doing over 100, right? See attached 3 scenarios.

Even 100 for standby is hectic

 

[Lupus]

I mean this is my 65U7Q plus a htx 8500 sound bar, small 1gb switch, Xbox on standby

 

[Dylan_G]

F***ing Hisense.

I bought a 65" U6H from Game on Black Friday. I immediately noticed some dead pixels in the middle of the screen. Not a lot, but definitely noticeable in a white/bright scene.

So I logged a fault/return with Game online. Granted, with it being the end of the year + holiday period + being unavailable, it took a long time for the collection period to happen.

Eventually, Hisense finally picked up the TV. I showed the "technician" the problem, and he agreed there was an issue with the screen and said he would send it to Hisense (then who is he with? I have no idea).

Anyways, he calls me back a few days later to say that Hisense said they can't see anything wrong with the TV and if there is something wrong its too small for them to fix... and when can he come drop off the TV. I told him I didn't want the TV back and that they must provide a refund. Crickets from that point on.

Much to their credit, Game were constantly following up (22 calls between December and now) and once I told them what Hisense were trying to pull, they got on the phone with them and informed them it would need to be a refund case. Now I'm sitting with a TV that Game needs to pick up.

Date purchased: 28 Nov
Date delivered: 01 Dec
Return logged: 03 Dec
TV collected from me: 07 Feb
TV returned to me: 28 Feb
TV collected from me again: ????

 

[jasweb]

OK. Just watched Shang-Chi (via Browser and Disneyplus.com) and quality is great .

Vibrant colors.. Great action and excellent motion handling.. 55 inch U7H

 

[Mr.M6]

F***ing Hisense.

I bought a 65" U6H from Game on Black Friday. I immediately noticed some dead pixels in the middle of the screen. Not a lot, but definitely noticeable in a white/bright scene.

So I logged a fault/return with Game online. Granted, with it being the end of the year + holiday period + being unavailable, it took a long time for the collection period to happen.

Eventually, Hisense finally picked up the TV. I showed the "technician" the problem, and he agreed there was an issue with the screen and said he would send it to Hisense (then who is he with? I have no idea).

Anyways, he calls me back a few days later to say that Hisense said they can't see anything wrong with the TV and if there is something wrong its too small for them to fix... and when can he come drop off the TV. I told him I didn't want the TV back and that they must provide a refund. Crickets from that point on.

Much to their credit, Game were constantly following up (22 calls between December and now) and once I told them what Hisense were trying to pull, they got on the phone with them and informed them it would need to be a refund case. Now I'm sitting with a TV that Game needs to pick up.

Date purchased: 28 Nov
Date delivered: 01 Dec
Return logged: 03 Dec
TV collected from me: 07 Feb
TV returned to me: 28 Feb
TV collected from me again: ????

I have this same panel in a 58" and I'm picking up a plenty of vignetting around the outer corners.
Let's hope it doesn't get worst. Game is always a problem. I returned a 18kg Hisense top-loader washing machine and eventually had to get the ombudsman involved as they refused to refund for a machine that was DOA. Eventually after 8 weeks they refunded me in full.

 

[Lupus]

Had an update on my A8H so far don't see anything different and no disney plus

 

[jasweb]

Had an update on my A8H so far don't see anything different and no disney plus

Disneyplus works fine in the "Browser"..

But yeah and app would be preferable.

Browser actually not that bad...

 

[Space]

since end of last week pressing the youtube button on a VIDAA 50” smart just gives a black screen (sonetimes preceded by a blue “buffering” circle in the centre.

Sometimes this happens after successfully streaming one youtube video.

Once it does happen, even pulling the tv’s plug and restarting after a few seconds has no effecc on the bllack screen. Netflix and Amazon Prime work fine.

Anyone else experiencing this ?

 

[Virex]

F***ing Hisense.

I bought a 65" U6H from Game on Black Friday. I immediately noticed some dead pixels in the middle of the screen. Not a lot, but definitely noticeable in a white/bright scene.

So I logged a fault/return with Game online. Granted, with it being the end of the year + holiday period + being unavailable, it took a long time for the collection period to happen.

Eventually, Hisense finally picked up the TV. I showed the "technician" the problem, and he agreed there was an issue with the screen and said he would send it to Hisense (then who is he with? I have no idea).

Anyways, he calls me back a few days later to say that Hisense said they can't see anything wrong with the TV and if there is something wrong its too small for them to fix... and when can he come drop off the TV. I told him I didn't want the TV back and that they must provide a refund. Crickets from that point on.

Much to their credit, Game were constantly following up (22 calls between December and now) and once I told them what Hisense were trying to pull, they got on the phone with them and informed them it would need to be a refund case. Now I'm sitting with a TV that Game needs to pick up.

Date purchased: 28 Nov
Date delivered: 01 Dec
Return logged: 03 Dec
TV collected from me: 07 Feb
TV returned to me: 28 Feb
TV collected from me again: ????

Hope it get sorted. But don't buy Nosense in the future(don't buy kak). If you want to buy Chinese then at least buy TCL. Very impressed with their TVs.

 

[ziyaad_88]

Anyone perhaps have updated firmware for the 65U7QF? Currently still on K1112 and Hisense have not been responsive to requests. Netflix keeps flickering between Dolby Vision and normal mode, becoming quite unbearable.

 

[Lupus]

Anyone perhaps have updated firmware for the 65U7QF? Currently still on K1112 and Hisense have not been responsive to requests. Netflix keeps flickering between Dolby Vision and normal mode, becoming quite unbearable.

That isn't actually a problem with the TV :-( check your connectivity, when it was happening on mine the signal was dropping and Vision requires a certain line speed to keep the picture at that.

 

[ziyaad_88]

That isn't actually a problem with the TV :-( check your connectivity, when it was happening on mine the signal was dropping and Vision requires a certain line speed to keep the picture at that.

Was also wondering if it could be my WiFi signal, but even with ethernet cable plugged directly into 1gbps fibre, it still flickers between DV on/off. Also tried playing around with smooth motion and other display settings...seems to reduce the frequency of flickering, but overall reduction in picture quality which you wouldn't expect from a better than entry-level Hisense. Funny enough it doesn't happen when plugging in the MiBox so probably just crappy Vidaa software.