The good news is that, as you’d expect with a Mini-LED TV, there’s no noticeable blooming and the black levels look great. Thankfully, you can turn motion interpolation off entirely in the settings, but it’s a shame motion processing isn’t a bit better than what it is. Another issue was the way in which it handles motion, as objects simply look blurry when they’re in motion. One issue we noticed was some noticeable color banding, where in sunsets you could see a distinct cut off point between the end of one hue and the start or another rather than one flowing mural. It’s just that the numbers tell one story of a TV that punches well above its weight class, while the real-world viewing data suggests that it’s performing right where it ought to. For the price of the TV, shows and movies are fine. That doesn’t mean they look bad, however. Everything from YouTube videos to HD Netflix streams just don’t pop the way they do on other TVs with the same specs and performance data. The problem here is when you put these numbers against real-world content, especially content that isn’t native 4K HDR. For a mid-range TV, these numbers are extraordinary. If you switch the modes to its calibrated settings, you can easily squeeze upwards of 2,000 nits from the TV and 80% of the Rec. That’s significantly higher than most LED-LCD TVs you’re going to see out there, minus one or two of Sony’s top models. Using an X-Rite i1 Pro spectrophotometer, a SpectraCal VideoForge Pro pattern generator and Portrait Displays’ Calman calibration software, we measured an incredible 1,300 nits in a 10% window right out of the box in Standard mode with 99.6% of the Rec.709 color gamut covered. While the colors look great, it’s the digital clean-up process that really fails to do the film justice. In it, there’s an incredibly heavy grain that the U8H’s processor just can’t clean up. In terms of performance, the Hisense U8H is a roller coaster, with some of the best performance we’ve ever seen from a ULED TV in terms of brightness, contrast and color saturation, but extremely lackluster when it comes to motion processing and upscaling.Ī great example of both the highs and the lows of the Hisense U8H happens in The Batman, when Bruce confronts Falcone about what really happened before his parents’ deaths. Hisense U8H Mini-LED TV review: Performance Inside the TV has an 802.11 ac Dual-band Wi-Fi antenna or you can use the Ethernet port on the back. For sound you can connect via the 3.5mm headphone jack on the side or optical digital audio or 3.5mm serial input on the back, or go wireless with Bluetooth. There’s a long, noticeable silver bar along the bottom that you’ll find the Hisense insignia, but the rest of the edges are all screen.īesides HDMI, the rest of the ports include an RF antenna input that hooks up to an ATSC 3.0 tuner, and a single composite video input, as well as two USB ports. While the Hisense U8H may not have the flattest profile or cutting-edge design, it does a good job of keeping bezels to a minimum. That makes a substantial difference in the picture, so we’d recommend picking the new U8H over the older U8G model. It’s the successor to the Hisense U8G that was released in 2021, but uses a Mini-LED backlight instead of traditional LEDs. The Hisense U8H was released in mid-2022 alongside the new Hisense U7H and Hisense U6H TVs. Not sure which size to buy? Check out our guide on ‘What size TV should you buy?’ The Hisense U8H review unit we tested is the 65-inch configuration, but there’s also a smaller 55-inch version and a larger 75-inch version if the 65-inch screen isn’t right for your room.
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