65-Inch Class U6 Series Mini-LED ULED 4K UHD Google Smart TV (65U6K) - QLED, Full Array Local Dimming, Dolby Vision IQ，HDR 10+, VRR Game Mode Plus, 240 Motion Rate, Alexa Compatibility

This thing is huge, and looks terrific. Amzn shipped it fast and w/o any dmg. For the price, it's a heck of a bargain. I'd been struggling btwn the u6 vs u7, and 65" vs larger, but went w the *much* cheaper 65u6 to test out using it in my situation before (years later, I hope) splurging on a later, better, larger one. I really am stunned by how big it is, and the picture looks much better than my (comparably priced) 4k 32" pc monitor from LG. Settings are mostly straightforward. The docs are just hilariously inadequate; fortunately it's simple enough you can figure it out. Eventually. I liked the ability to disable things via turbo mode, as I'm just using it as a pc monitor and don't need all that nonsense running. The sound quality on the built in speakers is surprisingly good! I have a high end stereo as my main output, but when I forget to turn it on I'm always surprised at how good the sound from this is! The bass is a little one note but that's to be expected simply from the volume needed to do low bass well; the huge area of the monitor already helps here a lot. End result; excellent "proof of concept" of using a modern large-ish tv to replace my monitor (eyestrain from focusing close up all day was just killing me). I'm just using it as a pc monitor currently and really didn't want all the telemetry, advertising, etc crap. So I simply never set up networking, never connected it to the router or wifi. It works fine (as a monitor) w/o any of that. Game mode looks terrific and cuts the latency a fair bit. There's a "turbo mode" (which you can configure) that turns off a lot of bloatware, which is a really nice feature. Glare/reflection problema are moderate; that's one of the strongest arguments for the u7 series (for my use case), but I wanted an affordable and usable test mule. This is excellent for my use (browsing/gaming at a reasonable focal length in a bright room, but I can appreciate the better reflection mitigation of the higher tier versions. Overall, I'm super happy with it.

I'm upgrading from a Hisense 70" H65 I purchased a few years ago. I went with the 55" option just because it better fit the living room and had less weight. I'm going to base my review on the older TV. I also did get this TV when it was just below $400 before tax as a Black Friday/Christmas deal. Pros - MiniLED truly does make a difference, and with the technology combination that Hisense dubs as ULED, it does compare somewhat to more expensive OLED screens. It gets BRIGHT. - The speakers are impressive for a TV in this price range. Soundbars will always be better, but you won't feel the need to rush out and get one. - With the right cable, modern game consoles will output the HDR10+ and Dolby Atmos features. - This TV allows you to set it up as a 'Basic TV' instead of being forced to add a Google Account, which is a huge plus for me. No unwanted ads or app recommendations is always a pro these days. Cons - Trying to set up 'enhanced mode' on the HDMI in order for HDR features to work was a hassle and wasn't apparent on how to do so without reading up online. - Although I won't use the TV for its smart features, 8GB of internal storage is abysmal. - When watching videos on consoles or AppleTV box, the TV has to readjust to Dolby Vision/HDR in between ads on apps like YouTube and Hulu. A very minor annoyance, but a con none the less. Overall, if you've never had an OLED TV in your life, or had the bare basic 4K budget TVs, this TV is quite something to behold- even from within the same brand! I broke this TV in watching Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse to put it through its paces, (colors, brightness shift from intense scenes and quieter ones, etc).. The H65 couldn't keep up. I'll keep this TV for as long as it works.

I got the 55" model on sale and paid $350. For that price, I am very happy with this TV's performance. The local dimming makes for decent HDR, but it is nowhere near as good as an OLED display. But that's expected as this TV a fraction of the price of an OLED. In my opinion, this makes for a good budget pick. Also, it works for putting in a bedroom/guestroom as opposed to your living room. Also, keep in mind that this TV is 60 fps max, which is plenty for any video content, but insufficient for the current generation of gaming consoles. The software on this TV is mostly great and even allows for hands free voice control of the TV, which is very cool. However, the software sometimes lags and hitches which leaves you waiting for the page to change or you may even notice stuttering video playback at first. This is on a 2 gig fiber network that no other devices ever need to buffer on. It's been mostly tolerable, but on a modern device I expect better performance. Because of this, I may need to upgrade to a roku and stop using the built in software which would mean that I can no longer use the voice commands to their fullest. The internal speakers are mediocre. The clarity and volume are adequate, but there's little to no low end or bass. So the speakers are basically good enough for watching TV, but don't expect an immersive movie viewing experience. With all of that being said, this 55" TV is still a ridiculously good performer for $350. It'll pump out 4k content with great contrast/colors and has usable smartTV capabilities. I think this TV is a great value even at the current list price of $450.

We had the tv for 20 months and I noticed a discoloration on the screen when it was on. I immediately contacted Hisense to get it serviced, since it was under warranty. They were nothing short of incompetent and made it as difficult as possible to get it serviced/replaced? I traded 7+ emails with them, had two phone calls, and had to send 10+ pictures because they continued to give me the run around. A technician came out (he was nice). His title was the "Field Destroyer", which meant he needed to take all the computer boards out and then scratch the screen so that I could dispose of it. He didn't know when the company would get me an answer on a replacement tv, or a full refund (he was a contractor)? I am holding my breath that they just send me a check for the cost of the tv because I will not be purchasing their products again. I am currently in a holding pattern as well because I don't want to buy a tv and they ship a replacement. PS The tv had a good picture but the reaction with apps and streaming was slow and it wasn't my internet.

Before I get this TV, I was a little bit skeptical because I was not familiar with this brand. I used to have Samsung TV and believed that Samsung or LG would be the best option for TV purchase. However, during black friday, the deal was too good to miss, hence I decided to get adventurous. And.... My gut feeling was RIGHT!!! I watch TV everyday, though it is not for TV shows - I work out at home with the youtube work out videos, which means I should use the TV everyday for my workout and my kid watch youtube 20 mins everyday and we have a family movie time every friday. And this TV made our family movie time perfect. Man.... if you are a fan of movies, you should switch to this TV right now. You can feel the difference at first watch. You don't have to pay hundreds dollars more on TV to purchase LG or Samsung. Hisense TV is way much cheaper, but it proivdes exactly same quality - the brightness, clarity of color, sound and fast loading. (My old Samsung TV took thousand years to load.... sigh...) Why pay more?? Now I am considering to pair this TV with Hisense soundbar. It would make our family movie time even more perfect though it is already perfec.t. The only thing I was not satisfied with this TV was the delievery. Aamazon delayed the delivery twice and I was really pissed off with it. because I was dying to get this TV ASAP. If they cannot handle that much load, AMZ should not sell it. BUT that's not the manufacturer's fault, Amazon's mishandling, so I just gave 5 stars because I was 100% satisfied with the acutal TV itself.

After checking out the various settings under Settings > Picture > Advance Settings -- things like Motion Enhancement, Motion Clearness, Noise Reduction, Digital Noise Reduction -- I noticed that my TV was in a mode where the brightest areas of the screen seemed to be flickering or pulsating at a very high frequency. It didn't matter if I was watching antenna or HDMI or even the CVBS input, this flicker effect was always there. It was very annoying to me, though other people didn't necessarily see it... but I couldn't decide if I had just not noticed it before or if it was something to do with those settings or if it was new but coincidental... or if I was just having migraine auras or something. This impacted all inputs, though I don't recall whether it impacted built-in apps like Netflix, since I rarely use them. So I put the settings back to defaults, turned the advanced options on and off, etc., and it didn't seem to change the flicker problem... so I just lived with it until one day in frustration with the idea that I must have a nearly-new TV that is borderline defective unless I can fix it, I went for a deep dive through all the options to see what else it might be. It should have been nothing, because there should not be a setting that would mess up a TV like this, but... I noticed that under Settings > Picture > Advance Settings > Instant Game Response there was something called High Refresh Rate Mode. This setting is only available on HDMI, not antenna, and is off on all inputs. I thought "well, maybe high refresh rate mode would get rid of this annoying flicker." At least on HDMI, since that setting isn't available for Antenna. My reasoning is was not necessarily sound, but this was my thought process. I had to try something. Anything. I switched that option on and -- whoa -- it worked... the high refresh mode did not flicker... but that's when things got weird. I checked the Antenna input and the flicker was gone from there, too, even though (like I already mentioned) that option can't even be enabled for the antenna input. But things got weirder still. I went back to HDMI and turned off High Refresh Rate Mode and turned off Instant Game Response, and then problem was still gone. No flicker. Say what? Then I switched back to antenna and the problem is still gone. I fixed the flicker by turning something on and back off again. Not a good sign. But, it gets worse. Fast forward several days and everything had been great, no flicker... but I noticed that my remote had become sluggish when changing channels. Low remote battery? Not so fast. You can only actually switch through the channels so fast, of course, but previously I could flip through and see the channel numbers changing (with the picture catching up after I stopped clicking through channels) but now even this was laggy and unreliable. The number of up and down channel clicks didn't correspond, like before, to how many channels you stepped through. Weird, and annoying. So I decided to reboot the TV. You should not have to reboot your television, but I thought "meh, poorly written software sometimes needs a reboot. Let's try it." The reboot fixed the channel changing problem. And the reboot brought the flicker back. 🤬 But the same steps as before, turning on Instant Game Response and then High Refresh Mode, then turning them right back off, for one HDMI input, has fixed the issue again for all inputs. Bad software. Checking for update shows no updates are available. Today is 2023-10-23 and here's what's running: Android OS Version 11 Android TV OS security patch level Feb 5, 2023 Kernel Version 4.19.116+ #1 Thu Jun 15 18:31:27 CST 2023 Android TV OS build RTT2.220118.001 Software Version V0000.01.00S.N0615 Extended Version D01 I also own a Hisense 43A6H, which has never given me any similar trouble. It doesn't have the "High Refresh Rate" option even though it does have the "Instant Game Response" option, which do I use on the other TV when I connect it to my computer. My satisfaction with the 43A6H is actually why I bought this model (65U6K, 2023 version), which has not been the same overall positive experience. --- Another annoyance with this model is that the CVBS (composite video plus analog stereo audio) input is a single 1/8" TRRS jack, not a set of RCA jacks. There was no cable or adapter furnished and the pinout appears to be completely undocumented. Reverse-engineering and googling suggests that it may be this: T - Audio Left + R1 - Video + R2 - Audio & Video Signal Ground S - Audio Right + I am using what I had on hand -- a TRS cable -- and I only needed video (not audio), so I might have R2 and S transposed, since my TRS connector's sleeve touches both the R2 and S contacts inside the unit. Some people online say the connector should be "longer" than a standard 1/8” connector, but it isn't -- these people are just unfamiliar with TRRS connectors. --- Another annoyance with both this model and my other Hisense TV is the signal strength indication for the antenna, which is hidden in settings under "manual scan." It shows only signal strength as a percentage, in what appear to be 1 dBuV increments up to about 66% (though I'm not claiming that e.g. 60% == 60 dBuV, just that the strength seems to increment in 1 dB steps at least at the high end -- but I don't know what the reference level is) and everything above that is reported as 100%. Does 100% mean max (and beyond that you are nearing overload?) or does 100% mean optimal and there's still a lot of headroom? Changing the channel selection on the manual scan screen does not change which channel's signal you are reading on the meter unless you rescan the channel. Otherwise you have to go out of settings, change the channel, then come back in. Signal strength and quality are important tools and should have been given a better presentation.

I picked up the 55” version during the Thanksgiving/Christmas sales last year (2023) for $350. At that price, this was a steal. I also grabbed a TCL 55” Q5 series for Black Friday from another vendor at $220. My review will involve a lot of comparison between the two TVs, both of which run on Google TV OS. First, these are secondary TVs I use almost exclusively for sports viewing (NFL Sundays, College Football Saturdays, March Madness, NHL, NBA, etc.). So I use them on sport settings (bright, not quite vivid/dynamic) and often viewed from indirect angles (anywhere from straight-on to 45 degrees). I have zero input with regard to gaming or movies in dark rooms (but I’m quite certain their dark levels are trash in those situations as my main screen is a C2 OLED, which spoils me for black levels and blooming concerns). Ok, so technically, the Hisense U6 is not in the same class as the TCL Q5, and that’s very apparent with regard to off angle viewing and blooming issues. The U6 handles off angle viewing notably better, whereas it doesn’t take much to begin getting the “washed” look on the Q5. Direct viewing, however, evens things out quite a lot. Both sets offer solid direct angle viewing and motion despite being 60hz panels. Direct angle viewing isn’t bad on either set, but you will still notice better contrast and color depth on the U6. The IR remote signals for the U6 conflict with either my LG C2 or the Roku Ultra (depending on the button). If it’s possible to use only wifi or bluetooth signals to control the U6, I have not figured out how to do it (note that it is a Goggle TV and can be controlled by the Google TV app, but the app itself is clunky and doesn’t maintain a reliable signal to the TV set, so I ended up having to turn on the TVs by other means half the time). I plugged-in a Roku Ultra and control the U6 on/off via the Roku. The Roku can be controlled via wifi through either the Roku App, Roku remote, or the Harmony Hub. I use the Harmony hub linked to a Harmony One remote to manage the TVs in my room. I cannot comment on the response time/processing power of the U6 (other reviewers complain about it, but I don’t doubt their complaints as that is often a place where manufacturers cut costs - the TCL Q5 is painfully slow at times to bring up menus and change apps. I would suspect the U6 is only slightly better in that regard. CEC control is good. As stated above, I can turn the display on and off, and adjust the volume through the Roku Ultra attached to it via hdmi. And Harmony has no difficulty communicating with the Roku via wifi. At the end of the day, the Hisense U6 Google TV was an absolute steal at $350. Is it worth the price in th $500 range? I mean, I think it’s passable, but you can do better in 2024/2025 with $500. I don’t think you can do better with $350 in the 55” size, especially with QLED and full array local dimming. You may need to drop another $30-$60 on a Roku/Google/Fire TV device to run your streaming and TV control through, however.

Awesome TV for its price range. I'm extremely happy. Its true 4K @ 30 Hz is great for normal viewing and I have no complaints at all. However, if your looking for a top gaming TV, a super bright one, or one with the greatest and best features... then you'll need to up the price your planning to spend pretty significantly. However, if you are wanting a great TV for watching movies and other basic needs/functions, then this is a awesome option. Although I have read about some software issues, I do not use it as a smart TV. I use it as the monitor for my entertainment system. As far as any issues under how I use the TV, I have had zero problems. As far as use beyond how I use it, I can not address them all.