AVForums | Hisense U7K 4K Mini LED TV Review - Are Hisense still VALUE FOR MONEY? @avforums | Uploaded 1 year ago | Updated 3 days ago
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The Hisense U7K is an improvement over last years models and that is the result of the company listening to feedback and fixing the items that needed to be addressed. As such, the U7K you buy in the UK matches the same TVs with that model number in other countries. Well done to Hisense for doing that and continuing to improve its products for end users. The U7K offers up fantastic features with all HDR formats supported and two full bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports with excellent gaming credentials to boot. Image quality is a step up on last year with better accuracy, black levels and shadow detail retrieval. HDR is also good, but it does lack overall brightness and contrast when compared to rivals and the tone mapping clips highlight detail over 600 nits, rather than matching and adapting to the mastering monitor metadata. But, with good smart TV execution, very good bright room images, excellent gaming features and solid build quality, the U7K offers many things for a mass market audience. It is a little expensive when compared to direct competition, but you still get a lot of screen real estate for the money! For all those reasons it gets a Recommended badge.
*The good*
Accurate greyscale and colour with SDR and HDR in Filmmaker Mode
Two HDMI 2.1 inputs at 48Gbps and good gaming features
Decent sound quality
Good build quality
*The not so good*
HDR tone mapping is over-clipping detail higher than 600 nits
Dynamic HDR tone mapping over brightening the image
Some light DSE and banding seen
Local dimming can be intrusive and quick scene changes catch it out
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*Read the full in-depth review* - https://www.avforums.com/reviews/hisense-u7k-65u7k-4k-mini-led-tv-review.21014/
The Hisense U7K is an improvement over last years models and that is the result of the company listening to feedback and fixing the items that needed to be addressed. As such, the U7K you buy in the UK matches the same TVs with that model number in other countries. Well done to Hisense for doing that and continuing to improve its products for end users. The U7K offers up fantastic features with all HDR formats supported and two full bandwidth HDMI 2.1 ports with excellent gaming credentials to boot. Image quality is a step up on last year with better accuracy, black levels and shadow detail retrieval. HDR is also good, but it does lack overall brightness and contrast when compared to rivals and the tone mapping clips highlight detail over 600 nits, rather than matching and adapting to the mastering monitor metadata. But, with good smart TV execution, very good bright room images, excellent gaming features and solid build quality, the U7K offers many things for a mass market audience. It is a little expensive when compared to direct competition, but you still get a lot of screen real estate for the money! For all those reasons it gets a Recommended badge.
*The good*
Accurate greyscale and colour with SDR and HDR in Filmmaker Mode
Two HDMI 2.1 inputs at 48Gbps and good gaming features
Decent sound quality
Good build quality
*The not so good*
HDR tone mapping is over-clipping detail higher than 600 nits
Dynamic HDR tone mapping over brightening the image
Some light DSE and banding seen
Local dimming can be intrusive and quick scene changes catch it out
Join the discussion at AVForums - https://www.avforums.com/threads/hisense-u7k-65u7k-4k-mini-led-tv-review-comments.2466137/
We use Portrait Displays Calman colour calibration software (https://www.portrait.com) a Murideo Seven Generator and a Klein K-10A meter profiled to a JETI Spectraval 1511-HiRes spectroradiometer for measurement and calibration.
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