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The Hisense keeps edges nice and stable, even when there’s considerable depth of field to an image, and this lets it keep proper control of even quite tight and/or complex patterns. It’s stability to on-screen motion, too – even if you watch some televised sport, where on-screen movement is rapid, unpredictable, and quite often in opposition to camera movement, the 65U7KQTUK guards against juddering or smearing very effectively. Or, at least, it does if the sport you’re watching is being streamed in 4K. For effortless voice control, this Hisense TV has Alexa and VIDAA voice command technologies built-in. Simply speak your command to the remote by pressing the voice command button. Bezel-less’ is a bit of a daft description for the design of a television. Hisense isn’t the only company to use the word – but it’s just as nonsensical here as it is everywhere else. Of course the 65U7KQTUK has bezels around its screen – but they are, at least, nice and thin. See the screen from the front, and there’s really not much bezel visible at all. Even in profile, the screen surround is only a touch over 5mm. And it’s made of aluminium, which gives a mildly up-market appearance and feel. Console gaming enjoys all of this good stuff, too. The ability to describe contrasts properly makes lighting effects really pop, and the seemingly limitless colour palette makes games look their best too. And, of course, the impressive refresh rate means judder or tearing is never an issue. It does equally well with skin tones and textures, draws edges with a steady hand, and can keep even very tight and/or complex patterns solidly defined. Depth of field is also pretty good.
Hisense 65 Inch 65U7KQTUK Smart 4K 144Hz UHD HDR Mini-LED TV
Using a native 100/120Hz screen, the Hisense 65U7KQTUK refreshes images twice as fast as regular TVs. This gives exceptionally smooth motion, making it brilliant with movies and fast-moving sports events. As a ULED screen, you also get a suite of technologies that make it even better. These include Quantum Dot Colour, with over a billion true-to-life colours to get closer to the original image. There’s also Full Array Local dimming, which delivers brilliant realism by controlling individual areas of the screen, for darker and lighter contrast.The Hisense quad core Hi-View Engine utilises the latest in AI processing technology. Automatically optimising both images and audio in real-time on a frame by frame basis, fine-tuning each frame - including resolution, brightness, contrast, colour, motion, depth and detail. So yes, as I may have already mentioned: this is a specification that’s out of proportion to the asking price. Picture Quality Unlike 2022’s U8H Mini LED model for the UK, the U7K sports the same core screen specifications as its US counterpart. Which is very good news, as it means there’s no repeat of the unfortunate UK U8H situation that found it sporting a low-contrast IPS panel compared with the VA panel of its US equivalent, as well as far fewer local dimming zones.
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Step down from Full HD stuff, though, and the Hisense throws the towel in somewhat. A big screen like this displaying some 720p content or less is always going to struggle, and the 65U7KQTUK lets picture-noise intrude, lets detail go astray and gives up entirely where testing on-screen motion is concerned. Sound Quality Dolby Atmos offers a big step forward in immersive sound. With a more immersive sound, you become enveloped in the action. Just pair with Dolby Atmos compatible media and prepare for room-filling sound. Even better, the Hisense 65U7KQTUK features a built-in subwoofer for a deeper bass response and smoother balance. Anyway, the 65U7KQTUK is a 4K ULED TV with Quantum Dot technology, capable – so says Hisense – of reproducing over one billion colours.Many TV brands, including giants LG, Samsung and Sony, only tend to support either HDR10+ or Dolby Vision, not both. So it’s great to see Hisense leaving industry politics behind and simply ensuring that the U7K is equipped to receive the best version of any content you pipe into it.
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It’s a 144Hz panel, which – in theory, at least – ought to be good news for PC gamers. And half of its four HDMI inputs are rated to the 2.1 standard with 4K/144Hz, AMD FreeSync Premium, ALLM and VRR capability. One of them is eARC-enabled, too. Have you got a source of native 4K content? Ideally with some HDR action involved? If so, you can get the best out of the Hisense U7K - and no matter if you’re using a video streaming service, a current-gen games console, or a UHD Blu-ray player, the Hisense’s best is very agreeable indeed.The U7K’s build quality is a touch lightweight and plastic-rich versus the bodywork of those more premium rival Mini LED models mentioned above. That said, it doesn’t feel actually flimsy or insubstantial – three sides of the screen frame, at least, are impressively trim, and the centrally mounted curved bar stand you get in the UK adds a pleasantly high-end touch. More so, at any rate, than the fairly bog-standard feet you get with the TV in the US and Australia. In between those two extremes, the Hisense displays an extremely extensive colour palette. It seems capable of almost endless variation, able to make the most subtle and minor variations in shade apparent - and not in any kind of showy way, but in proper context and with the proper weighting. It’s a vibrant watch, but never overblown or overdriven - not unless you thoroughly meddle in the set-up menus, anyway.
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The U7K’s pictures are far from shy and retiring – but they’re positively wall flowers compared to the brashness and sheer loudness of its 40W 2.1 speaker system. The rest of it is nicely put together, too. It’s mostly plastic, of course – but the chassis feels sturdy enough, which is probably a big part of why the Hisense weighs 19.7kg without its stand. The stand itself is metal with a plastic facing, and it’s a sort of hoop shape that reminds me (for some reason) of the Diana fountain in Hyde Park (but on a slightly smaller scale, naturally). It ups the weight by 1kg, and it’s fairly compact – so the 65U7KQTU doesn’t need all that wide a surface to stand on.We test every television we review thoroughly over an extended period of time. We use industry standard tests to compare features properly. We’ll always tell you what we find. We never, ever, accept money to review a product. It accompanies its punchy visuals with solid smarts and raucous sound, too – all for an unusually affordable price by Mini LED TV standards. The hope is, of course, that the Mini LED and local dimming light controls will enable the screen to deliver more brightness and contrast than regular LED TVs. A dedicated subwoofer on the TV’s rear hits deeper than most TV sound systems too, providing a solid foundation for the potent midrange, while trebles sound clear without becoming too prominent. As you would hope with a TV that combines Quantum Dots with good contrast and brightness for a mid-range TV, the U7K also delivers pretty potent colours. Tones across the board look above average (for this price level) rich and vibrant, but also, provided you avoid the TV’s most extreme picture setting, they tend to maintain a good balance, with nothing – not even heavily saturated reds or greens – drawing too much attention to itself.
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