Hisense U7H Review - Good But Overpriced

Vemuda Techno - Today on your huge demand, I have brought for you a detailed review of the Hisense U7H TV. In this post, you will come to know about the performance of this TV, and, where it stands in comparison with other good budget QLED TVs.

If you are serious about buying a TV, then don't skip this post, and read it till the end, because in this post, I will be showing you its side-by-side comparison with some other good TVs, so that you can come to know which TV will be the best one for you. I purchased this TV from Amazon, a week back, for 57k, however, right now, its price is 55k.

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So now, let's start with the unboxing of this TV. Inside the box, apart from the TV, there are two pieces of a metallic tabletop stand, a wall mount, a user manual guide, a remote, a set of triple-A batteries, a power cord, a fire TV stick and an AV cable.

The built quality of the TV is pretty good. Despite the fact that leaving aside its metallic stand, its entire construction is plastic, still, the TV is heavy and sturdily built. It doesn't wobble even if you push it.

The TV is bezel-less from three sides and the lowermost bezel is also slim, on the centre of which, Hisense branding is given. On the back high-quality ABS plastic has been used. Overall the TV looks elegant. The built quality of the remote is also good.

On it, apart from others, you get direct buttons to Netflix, YouTube, Prime video media and browser. On the connectivity front, the TV has 2 USB ports, out of which, one is 3.0.

It has 4 HDMI ports, two of which support 2.1 configurations. HDMI 3 comes with eARC support, and HDMI 3&4 also comes with 120 Hz support. Apart from this, there is 1 Ethernet port, a 3.5 mm audio port, an optical port, a headphone jack and an Antenna port. There is dual-band Wi-Fi and the Bluetooth version is 5.1.

Now let's talk about the company-given specifications. This is a 4K QLED TV that comes with a 10-bit 120 Hz IPS panel. This TV comes with a Full Array of DLED backlighting that exhibits Local Dimming.

You get the support of HDR10, HDR10+, HLG and Dolby Vision on this TV. To handle motion blur MEMC is there on the TV and for colour enhancement, there is a wide colour gamut.

The company has just said ultra brightness in the specifications. The contrast ratio of this TV is 1200:1. The TV comes with ambient adaptive light that adjusts the brightness according to the room lighting conditions. Its response time is 6ms, and, it comes with AMD FreeSync, ALLM and VRR. The TV comes with 20W output speakers that support Dolby Atmos and DTS.

This is a Linux-based smart TV that comes with 3GB Ram and 8GB storage. It runs on the Vidaa operating system.

Apart from Android, this TV is compatible with Apple devices too. The TV has an Apple Homekit as well as Airplay. So these were the company-given specifications, now, let's see the ground reality of this TV.

Hisense U7H comes with an 8-bit dithering panel, which is not a real 10-bit panel. This type of panel tries to reproduce 10-bit HDR colours in 8-bit panels through some hardware technique.

This TV comes with a Full Array of backlighting that exhibits Local Dimming. The TV has 28 dimming zones on it, which are pretty big ones too.

As this TV has an IPS panel its contrast ratio is mediocre. Though the Dirty Screen Effect was hardly visible on the TV that I received, it varies with different units. A single-color stretch looks pretty clean on this TV.

While watching sports you get to see a quite clean field view. If we talk about its brightness on HDR Dynamic Mode and 100% window, the brightness of the TV is just 338 Nits.

The HDR peak brightness of this TV is not different from its SDR brightness, because of this, the brightness of this TV does not get enhanced while playing HDR or Dolby Vision videos.

Despite the low brightness, the dark scene performance of this TV is pretty decent. You can watch dark scenes comfortably on it.

The colour reproduction of this TV is good. You get to see deep colors on it. By "deep" I mean that this TV produces dark shades of all colors.

The digital noise is almost negligible on this TV, you get a very clean viewing experience on it. As far as banding is concerned it is very less.

This TV tries its best to give a smooth gradient between different colour shades. However, sometimes, you do get to see some pixelation between the same colour shades.

This TV gives a much superior performance in comparison to the Toshiba QLED TV. No blooming issue is seen on this TV.

The picture quality of the TV looks pretty good, but, the images appear a bit soft, that lack sharpness. However, these soft images impart a cinematic look to the scenes. In comparison to many other TVs, the Blacks on this TV look much deeper.

Going by its price, though the HDR and Dolby Vision performance of this TV is not that good, it can be termed as pretty decent.

As the Hisense U7H TV comes with a 120 Hz refresh rate, the frame transition on this TV is pretty smooth. But motion blur is not fully-avoidable even on this TV. In some fast action scenes, sometimes, you get to see some blur.

This TV also fails to stop the double ball impression that a fast-paced cricket ball gives. However, in comparison to the 60 Hz TVs, this TV gives a smoother frame transition between scenes.

This TV performs better than many other TVs in the budget category. The overall picture quality is pretty good, which can be termed as enjoyable.

Coming to its set-top box performance: The HD channels look very good on this TV, and, going by the fact that this is a 4k TV, the SD channels are also fair enough.

Even if you are searching for a 4k QLED TV for watching set-top box channels, this TV will be a good option for you.

As far as picture upscaling is concerned, this TV shows a good picture upscaling of OTT content and also through the USB port.

Though 720p videos did not get upscaled to my satisfaction, the 1080p videos showed very good picture upscaling. This TV also supports external hard disks.

As far as its audio is concerned, the audio is decent, which apart from being sufficiently loud is clear too. However, it lacks richness in sound and bass.

However, the TV has HDMI eARC, optical digital and 3.5 mm audio ports, for a cinematic audio experience, you can connect your soundbar to this TV through any of these ports. However, the best audio experience can be had through the HDMI eARC port.

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This TV supports casting, you can connect your Android and Apple devices wirelessly to this TV and cast their contents on it. Casting is smooth on it. You can also connect your laptop to this TV and cast its content on this TV screen.

Coming to the smartness of this TV, it is a Linux-based TV that runs on Vidaa operating system. The negative point of the Vidaa OS is that you cannot sideload any outside application on this TV, and can use only those applications that come preloaded from the company.

However, due to the Vidaa OS, this TV boots up faster than any Android TV. When Hisense initially gave this Vidaa OS in its Toshiba TV, many applications were missing on that TV.

However, now, much improvement can be seen on Vidaa OS as you get most of the Indian taste applications on it, excluding Hotstar.

Along with this TV, you get a free fire TV stick, which can be used for watching Hotstar or any other app of your choice. So, watching any application will not be a limitation on this TV. The remote comes with Alexa voice command feature, so you can control this TV through your voice also.

Now let's talk about the gaming experience on this TV as this TV comes with all features related to high-end gaming. It comes with ALLM, VRR, AMD FreeSync, 120 Hz refresh rate and HDMI 2.1, it is an ideal option for gaming.

To play high-end games on your PS5, you need to press this Menu button on the remote and enter the HDMI options, where you need to switch over from the standard mode to the enhanced mode.

Thereafter along with VRR and ALLM, you will also get the option for 120 Hz gaming. Once you change the HDMI to the enhanced mode, the TV will automatically enter the Auto Game Mode, when you next connect your PS5 to the TV. After entering the Auto Game Mode, the input lag automatically gets minimized.

Though gaming is pretty smooth on this TV, while playing the Dirt-5 car racing game, I did experience stuttering for a second. This could be an isolated incident related to first-time gaming as even on a good 60 Hz TV, I have not experienced this.

Though performance-wise this TV is pretty good, its performance is unable to fully justify its high pricing.

Now, I will be showing you its side-by-side comparison with Thomson, Blaupunkt, Vu GloLED and Hisense U6G TVs.

This Hisense U7H TV is inferior in brightness to all these TVs and despite being costly is unable to give a better performance.

Though it is costlier than these other TVs, it cannot be termed as the best QLED TV, it can only be termed as one of the best QLED TVs!

The only positive point about it, that makes it superior to these other TVs is the fact that it comes with a 120 Hz refresh rate!

However, the question that looms large is that "Is this feature worth the extra 15 to 17k price that non-gamers need to spend on its purchase?"

In my opinion, No! You can see for yourself that the Dolby Vision performance is better on this Thomson TV than on this Hisense TV.

This is because the brightness of Thomson TV is better. In comparison to the Blaupunkt TV, also, the brightness of this TV is a little low.

Vu GlowLED has even better brightness than these Thomson and Blaupunkt TVs. I have already shown this in a comparison of both TVs while reviewing the Vu GloLED TV.

Hisense U6G is the brightest among these TVs and its performance is also superior. But for hard-core gamers, this 55 inches Hisense U7H TV fully justifies its price, because, this is the sole 55 inches TV at this price, which has a 120 Hz refresh rate.

The 55 inches Vu Masterpiece TV, which comes with a 120 Hz refresh rate and is much brighter than this TV is also costlier by 10k-12k.

This is the reason why this TV is an ideal choice for gamers who cannot spend that much on a TV. They can buy it comfortably without any doubt.

But for common viewers, this TV does not deliver anything more than the Thomson, Blaupunkt, Vu Gloled and Hisense U6G TVs, which prompts spending 15 to 17k more on its purchase.

The foremost thing that restrains one from purchasing this TV is its after-sales services, which are pathetic! Though the company promises a 2 to 3-year warranty, claiming that warranty is a tedious task.

I keep on receiving umpteen complaints about the poor aftersales services of Hisense. Here, I do not mean that the aftersales services of Thomson and Blaupunkt are good because they are not!

I keep on receiving complaints about their poor service too! But, at least their TVs are not as costly as this TV!

In my opinion, Hisense U7H is a good TV but it fails to justify its model number as the same model being sold in Europe comes with 1000 Nits brightness and more than 120 dimming zones.

Releasing a totally different specifications TV in India with the same model name, is a misleading advertisement on behalf of the company.

There is no problem in buying this Hisense U7H TV as its performance is good, the only constraint is its pricing! Going by its performance and brand value, this TV is overpriced!

If it was sold at around 46k, it would have been the best 55-inch TV in the budget category as it comes with a 120 Hz refresh rate.

It is alarming that budget companies are gradually increasing the price of their TVs, but their aftersales services are still running on a very low track.

The main USP of these budget brands was their low price, which attracted budget buyers, now this very charm is diminishing fast.

So, this much only for today, meet you in my next post, till then, take care and stay safe.