Description
The U6 Series continues Hisense’s mission to bring leading-edge technology to everyone. Adding Mini-LED and over 4X the local dimming zones in 2023, along with Quantum Dot Color and Dolby Vision / Dolby Atmos, the U6 series delivers must-have features for uncompromising performance and value. The U6 series incorporates Dolby Vision IQ to its already long list of supported HDR formats. Dolby Vision IQ leverages the full intelligence of your TV to deliver a perfect picture in your room at every moment. It dynamically adjusts to the light in the room and delivers the best experience possible for all content types and HDR formats. Add Game Mode Plus with a variable refresh rate at 60Hz for smoother gaming on next-generation game consoles. And, with Hands-Free Voice Control searching and playing all your favorite content is simple and seamless.
Mikey Guru –
FBT –
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.
Tyler –
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.