HISENSE 50” 4K TV Review – I finally upgraded…

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I bought a new TV, after a good 5 years using a 32” 1080p ‘dumb’ TV, I finally upgraded to this, a 50” 4K TV from HISENSE. But why did I pick this one? There are a good few reasons, so let me explain. Yes, I paid my own money for this, which ironically means I’m more invested and biased than if I was sent it, but either way lets talk about it. But first, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

Starting with one of the most important factors, it’s price. This cost me just £349, and can even be found on sale for £319. That is an astonishing price for a 50” 4K TV. You can’t get too many standard 4K monitors for that much, so to get a Smart TV is brilliant. You’d also be looking at spending around £100 more to get the same sort of spec with an LG or Samsung badge instead.

Having a low price is all well and good, but if it’s terrible, what’s the point? Happily, this is far from terrible. It’s not exceptional for a few different reasons, but it’s more than adequate and just as good as the more expensive, comparably specced LG and Samsung models. It’s a sizable upgrade for me, and even watching 1080p content still looks more crisp and vibrant than my old unit.

So, what keeps it from being exceptional? Well, it’s not quite as sharp as I’d like. Looking at other 4K panels, admittedly all of them well above £1,500, they have a sharpness and clarity this doesn’t quite match. It’s not a problem and you really don’t notice, but my job is to nitpick so there you have it. The colours are decent, but since it’s only an 8bit + FRC panel, you only get 100% coverage of the sRGB spectrum, rather than a wider color space like DCI-P3. Brightness wasn’t amazing either, certainly not good enough for convincing HDR which while it does support HDR10 natively, I probably wouldn’t bother.

The built in speakers are passable, they are 2 8W bottom firing drivers that are a little flat, a little low on bass and a bit muted, so a sound bar or speaker setup would be a good addition, but with SPDIF, a 3.5mm jack, and bluetooth support that isn’t a big deal.

The TV’s OS is… fine. It’s called VIDAA U OS, and it’s as good as its name sounds. It’s not overly slow, has all the apps you’d expect including Netflix, Youtube, Plex and the rest, most of what a ROKU can do but built in. It’s even got ROKU style quick launch buttons on the bottom of the remote, but it’s not quite polished. When you press the home button to bring up the menu, it doesn’t close or pause the content that was playing before you pressed home, so if you watch a video on youtube then press home when it’s done, it’ll autoplay the next video/ads and until you press back and pause the content it’ll keep playing as if you were still watching. It also cropped Youtube videos like it was overscanning, but with no option to change that anywhere to be found.

So at this point you are probably wondering why the hell I bought this if it’s got all those problems. Well, the reality is if you buy one of these, none of those problems will really worry you because it’s a brilliant viewing experience. Whether its films, TV shows, or Netflix and Chill time, it’s a really nice, crisp enough, vibrant enough experience and all for just £350. Can you get better? Of course, but you’re looking at a grand or more to get something substantially better, and at least VIDAA U OS doesn’t have ads baked into it and an insane amount of data collection.

Watching films was a very immersive experience, especially with my Orbitsound soundbar hooked up. I really enjoyed the look, even with 1080p content it still looked sharper and more vibrant than I’m used to, making for a worthwhile upgrade.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a techteamgb video without gaming on it… So I did! Sadly it doesn’t seem to support freesync which meant it was a tearing mess at least in CSGO with my underdesk PC setup, but it was passable. I measured just 4ms of input lag at the top of the display with game mode enabled which is decent. The panel is reasonably fast too, when you factor in the backlight strobing possibly from being in game mode, it’s only 7ms from black to white which really isn’t bad. It’s been a little stuttery with all the PC’s I’ve used with it so far though, so should be fine for consoles and family games like Overcooked, but maybe not your next competitive gaming monitor eh?

All things considered, I’m not sure there is a better value for this sort of display right now. Yes it’s fairly average overall, but that price tag makes it really hard to ignore. It’s not 120Hz, which is a shame, nor has freesync it seems, but it’s hardly a gaming display and as far as a TV goes it’s decent. Of course, that’s my thoughts but I’d love to hear yours in the comments below. Did I miss an even better option? Would you buy one yourself? Let me know.