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With Android TV you get quite a few ways to adjust the sound - multiple sound modes and even an equalizer. The U8G supports Dolby Atmos and IMAX Enhanced, a DTS:X variant. It delivers decent overall sound for a TV - it creates a wide sound and has some bass, where many TVs produce none. The 65U8G has two speakers that drive 15 watts of power. The 65U8G’s strengths in color and contrast helped make World’s Edge in Apex Legend a vivid experience, with vivid yellows and excellent details in shadows. While racing through the streets in Forza Horizon 4, the car showed no blurring and details in the foreground - such as the asphalt of the road - were very sharp. With two HDMI 2.1 ports, the 65U8G supports 4K at 120Hz, automatic low latency mode, variable refresh rate and AMD FreeSync, all in an effort to deliver the smoothest game experience possible. To go with the low lag time, the 65U8G includes the features that gamers are looking for to take advantage of the latest game consoles. That quick response helped make gaming on the U8G as impressive as watching movies and TV, and one of the best gaming TVs. However, it isn’t quite as good as the Hisense H9G (0.92).įinally, the 65U8G’s lag time was a fast 17.5 milliseconds, again putting it ahead of almost all the competition, except the OLED55BXPUA’s 14.5 ms. Its Delta-E score of 1.57 ranks well ahead of the TCL 6-Series’s 2.85, the Vizio P-Series Quantum X’s 2.28, and especially the Q80T’s 3.91. The OLED55BXPUA scored 133.7 percent on this test.Ĭolor accuracy is another strong suit for the 65U8G. But if we look at the LG BX OLED, we see that OLEDs still eclipse LCDs in color reproduction. It reproduced 99.95 percent of the Rec 709 color space, which put its color reproduction slightly ahead of the TCL 6-Series (99.92) and tied it with the Vizio P-Series Quantum X PX65-G1 (99.95). Older sets, like the TCL 6-Series Roku TV R625 (385 nits) and comparison to OLED TVs really shows how much brighter the 65U8G’s LCD panel is: The LG BX OLED measured just 345.7 nits.īut there’s more to the 65U8G than brightness. With brightness of 722.7 nits, the 65U8G eclipsed the Samsung Q80T QLED TV (681.6 nits) and the TCL 6-Series Roku TV R635 (583.1 nits). Our lab test results backed up what I saw on screen, proving the 65U8G to be one of the most impressive screens around, especially at the price. Hisense U8G Android TV review: Test results Scenes appeared washed out on the sides of the screen if you get too far from center while watching. The 65U8G’s other main flaw is limited viewing angles. In the opening scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Sam Wilson zipped through a canyon without any blurring, and in Avengers: Infinity War, Thor’s axe sliced through Outriders in sharp detail. I’m not a fan of any motion smoothing, but the one of the 65U8G was so obvious as to be distracting and definitely negatively affected fast action scenes.īut with Motion Enhancement disabled, action scenes looked crisp. The latter two turn off all motion smoothing - which I welcomed, because any mode that had motion smoothing (Motion Enhancement in the settings) turned on made me nauseated. If it’s not in Dolby Vision, you can choose from more options, including Vivid, Standard, Theater Day and Filmmaker Mode. If you’re watching something that supports Dolby Vision, you get three options: Dolby Vision IQ, Dolby Vision Dark and Dolby Vision Custom. The picture mode options differ based on the source material, which can be confusing. The 65U8G comes with a ton of picture modes, and you should explore them because each has a significant impact on what you see. During the Weathertop scene of the 4K Blu-Ray of Fellowship of the Ring, I could see details in the moonlit rocks as the Ringwraiths attacked, and the details of an octopus head in Planet Earth II were awe-inspiring. On the 4K Blu-ray version of Blade Runner 2049, as Joe watches the bright Good Joe ad in the dark with rain falling, it was easy to see details in the darkness even as the intense colors of the ad popped off the screen. Credit this to a combination of the TV’s brightness and support for HDR (Dolby Vision, HDR10+, HDR10 and HLG). The 65U8G impresses immediately with its color and contrast. Hisense U8G Android TV review: Performance For network connection the U8G offers Wi-fi or wired Ethernet.

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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. Next to the HDMI ports, there’s an RF antenna input and a single composite video input, as well as two USB ports.
