HISENSE 43A7GQTUK LED Series 43-inch 4K UHD Dolby Vision HDR Smart TV 60Hz Refresh Rate with YouTube, Netflix, Freeview Play and Alexa Built-in, and Bluetooth, TUV Certificated (2021 NEW)

Product Information

The sound modes of this TV include Standard, Theater, Music, Speech, Late Night, Sports and Auto. As with the image, most people will probably choose either “Standard” or “Auto”. But if you’re having a movie night, you might want to switch to Theater because it enhances the surround sound effect to some extent. Still, we would recommend buying a separate soundbar to improve the sound. Connections Best TV brands | Best Samsung TVs | Best TCL TVs | Best LG TVs | Best Roku TVs | Best OLED TVs | Best QLED TVs | Best 8K TVs The top-left app on the home screen is Netflix, and it’s rather odd that it’s the only app whose position you can’t change. During setup, we were even presented with a prompt to watch Netflix, making it abundantly clear that the dominant TV streaming service had paid a premium to maintain pride of place on 2020 Hisense TVs. The 43A6GTUK’s sound is potentially bolstered by built-in Dolby Atmos decoding, though it remains to be seen if such a cheap TV has a good enough sound system to really derive much benefit from what Dolby Atmos can do. The 43A6GTUK’s colour palette can skew rather pale at times, too - especially with skin tones and in very bright HDR areas. Unsurprisingly, this issue extends to noticeable clipping of shades and detail in near-white parts of HDR pictures.

This volume limitation does mean the set can’t keep escalating its sound as far as the most raucous scenes would like it to, resulting in a rather thin, swallowed effect right where you’d hope for the speakers to really be letting rip. This is hardly unusual for the TV world, though, and impacts many sets that cost way more than the 43A6GTUK does. Their ULED TVs mostly use VA panels with a narrow viewing angle, so they aren't good choices for wide seating arrangements. They don't use viewing angle technology like Samsung, so the image looks inconsistent from the side. Percentage luminance drop at 20 degree vertical angle from the centre of the screen with 50% white output

Gaming Performance

Impressively, this TV has very good image processing, which is welcome for Hisense as that used to be a feature reserved for name brands such as LG and Sony. This makes it a cheaper home entertainment alternative to very expensive models from the two aforementioned brands, especially as it supports both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, as well as DTS advanced audio formats. Unfortunately, its viewing angle is disappointing, so it's not very well suited for a wide seating arrangement. With the stand attached, the 50-inch TV that I tested measures 705 x 1,117 x 251 mm and weighs 11.8kg, so while it is possible to set it up by yourself it’ll be much easier if you have another person to lend a hand. Panel uniformity is reasonable, but with a darker center despite the FALD. Sometimes, with some content, you may see a lighter image at the bottom edge. This is noticeable when you are sitting right in front of the TV. With a 5% decrease in brightness, the perimeter of the screen is again slightly brighter than the center. But the panel is clean and without the obvious Dirty Screen Effect (DSE). Therefore, sports programs look good.

Max light output HDR (high dynamic range) while displaying small white square taking up 10% of the screen (measured in Nits) We’re now onto VIDAA U 5.0 and if there’s a difference between this version and previous one, then I’m not seeing it. That said, despite its plain appearance, there’s no argument about navigation and operation. The VIDAA interface is easy to use and there’s something to be said about an interface that settles for that level of simplicity. This cookie is set by Bazaarvoice. This is a session cookie used for internal Bazaarvoice web analytics to be correlated to the same user browsing session for interactions within a particular client domain. Hisense makes use of a variety of different smart TV platforms, depending on the set you’re watching, including the third-party Roku and Android TV platforms. The U7QF, however, uses a proprietary OS called VIDAA U.We’re told these features are in “the early stages of development”, but for now it’s probably better to give them a wide berth. Like the U8K, this model has a very wide color gamut, so it's vibrant and colorful. It also has equally good image processing, which is very welcome for this mid-range model. Plus, it is compatible with both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, with the same DTS advanced audio format support as the more expensive Hisense, making this TV one of the cheapest home entertainment-ready TVs you can get. AppNexus sets the anj cookie that contains data stating whether a cookie ID is synced with partners. So, we have already said that the Hysens E7HQ TV has three HDMI 2.0 ports (one with eARC ), with the exception of some localizations, where version 2.1 ports are indicated. Which does not affect the operation of the TV in any way, since it will display 120 Hz content through the frame. There are 2 USB ports – one version 2.0, the other version 3.0. Even its upscaling of HD isn’t at all bad, adding at least a little texture and detail without exaggerating noise.