Design
Curved No
The Hisense U7H TV has a nearly bezel-free design that looks like many premium TVs. The bottom bezel is a bit thicker but doesn't stand out much when watching TV. The Costco variant of this TV, the Hisense U75H, has a black stand and looks a bit different.
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Design
Uniformity Pictures
After 12 months, the TV's brightness has remained roughly the same, and there has been no noticeable shift in the uniformity of the panel.
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Design
The feet are wide set in the default position, but there's a narrow position if you have a small table and aren't planning on wall-mounting it. The stand supports the TV well in the wide position, but it still wobbles a bit front to back.
Footprint of the 65-inch stand in the wide position: 47.6" x 10.6". In the narrow position, the 65-inch stand has a footprint of 36.4" x 10.6". In either position, the feet lift the TV about 3.3" above the table, so most soundbars fit in front of the TV without blocking the screen.
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Design
Wall Mount VESA 300x200
The back of the TV looks a bit less premium than the rest. The inputs face to the side and are easy to access, even when the TV is wall-mounted. The power cable is removable and sits at the opposite end of the TV from the inputs. There are clips on the back of the TV and on the feet for basic cable management. The clips on the back are built-in and can't be easily removed.
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Design
Borders 0.39" (1.0 cm)
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Design
Max Thickness 3.54" (9.0 cm)
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7.5 Design
Overall, the Hisense U7 feels well-built. There's a bit of flex in the plastic portion of the back of the TV, but this isn't uncommon, and it's unlikely to cause any issues. The feet are sturdy and made of metal, and they support the TV well, but there's a bit of wobble.
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8.3 Picture Quality
Contrast
Native Contrast
The TV has excellent contrast, resulting in deep blacks and bright highlights in a dark room. The local dimming feature effectively boosts the contrast, but it's not as good as the Hisense U8/U8H or TCL Q7/Q750G QLED. If you want a similar TV with even better contrast, check out the 2024 Hisense U7N.
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7.5 Picture Quality
The TV has good blooming performance, but there is some noticeable blooming around bright objects and subtitles when they are displayed against a black background.
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6.5 Picture Quality
Local Dimming
Backlight
Dimming Zones Count Of Tested TV
The TV has adequate lighting zone transitions. The leading edge of bright moving objects is visibly dimmer, and there's noticeable haloing behind fast-moving objects.
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8.0 Picture Quality
There's no noticeable difference with dark scenes when the TV is set to Game Mode.
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7.6 Picture Quality
Hallway Lights (~1950 cd/m²)
Yellow Skyscraper (~700 cd/m²)
Landscape Pool (~300 cd/m²)
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Automatic Brightness Limiting (ABL)
The Hisense U7H has good peak brightness in HDR. Bright highlights stand out well, delivering an impactful HDR experience.
These measurements are after calibrating the HDR white point with the following settings:
- HDR Picture Mode: HDR Theater
- Local Dimming: High
- Backlight: Max
- Color Temperature: Low
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7.8 Picture Quality
Hallway Lights (~1950 cd/m²)
Yellow Skyscraper (~700 cd/m²)
Landscape Pool (~300 cd/m²)
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Automatic Brightness Limiting (ABL)
There's no noticeable difference in brightness in 'Game' mode. The settings used are the same as our 'HDR Brightness' test, but with the 'HDR Game' Picture Mode.
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8.9 Picture Quality
600 Nit Tracking Delta
1000 Nit Tracking Delta
4000 Nit Tracking Delta
The Hisense U7H tracks the target PQ EOTF extremely well. Shadow details are displayed accurately, but near-blacks are raised a bit. There's a smooth roll-off as content approaches the TV's peak brightness, ensuring fine details are preserved.
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8.5 Picture Quality
Real Scene Peak Brightness
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Automatic Brightness Limiting (ABL)
The Hisense U7H has excellent peak brightness in SDR, and it easily overcomes glare in a bright room. Large, bright scenes aren't as bright as small highlights, but the variation isn't noticeable.
These measurements are after calibration with the following settings:
- Picture Mode: Theater Night
- Local Dimming: High
- Backlight: Max
- Color Temperature: Warm 1
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8.4 Picture Quality
Wide Color Gamut
DCI P3 xy
DCI P3 uv
Rec 2020 xy
Rec 2020 uv
The TV has a great color gamut in HDR and can display a wide color gamut. It has fantastic coverage of the DCI-P3 color space used by most Ultra HD Blu-ray movies. It has just decent coverage of the wider Rec. 2020 color space, though, which is gaining in popularity, especially in animated films and some nature documentaries.
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8.1 Picture Quality
1,000 cd/m² DCI P3 Coverage ITP
10,000 cd/m² Rec 2020 Coverage ITP
White Luminance
Red Luminance
Green Luminance
Blue Luminance
Cyan Luminance
Magenta Luminance
Yellow Luminance
The Hisense U7 has great color volume. Colors are bright and vibrant for the most part, but they're not quite as bright as pure white. It displays dark saturated colors well, thanks to its low contrast ratio.
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5.5 Picture Quality
White Balance dE
Color dE
Gamma
Color Temperature
Picture Mode
Color Temp Setting
Gamma Setting
The Hisense U7 has disappointing accuracy before calibration. The white balance is significantly off, so mid-grays and bright grays are noticeably inaccurate. Color accuracy is just okay, but all colors are a bit off. On the other hand, the color temperature is extremely close to the target, and gamma is very close to the 2.2 target, with only blacks and highlights being displayed a bit brighter than they should be.
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LEARN ABOUT PRE CALIBRATION
9.0 Picture Quality
White Balance dE
Color dE
Gamma
Color Temperature
White Balance Calibration
Color Calibration
The TV has fantastic accuracy after calibration to a 6500K white point. Unfortunately, like the Hisense U8/U8H, it's difficult to calibrate quickly, as small changes to some areas made others worse. Even after calibrating it, there are still noticeable color errors, and brighter shades of gray are a bit off.
You can see the full settings for our calibration here.
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LEARN ABOUT POST CALIBRATION
7.4 Picture Quality
50% Std. Dev.
50% DSE
5% Std. Dev.
5% DSE
The Hisense U7 has decent gray uniformity. There's some noticeable dirty screen effect in the center of the screen, which can be distracting when watching sports or browsing the web. There's very little vignetting, though, as the sides of the screen aren't much darker than the center. Uniformity in near-black scenes is better, but there are some noticeable uniformity issues and raised blacks, especially on the right side of the screen.
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9.1 Picture Quality
Std. Dev.
Native Std. Dev.
The Hisense U7 has fantastic black uniformity. With local dimming disabled, there's a bit of backlight bleed, and the entire screen appears a bit cloudy, but it's not too distracting. Enabling local dimming almost completely eliminates the backlight bleed and cloudiness, and the black uniformity looks fantastic overall.
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5.5 Picture Quality
Color Washout
Color Shift
Brightness Loss
Black Level Raise
Gamma Shift
Unfortunately, the TV has a sub-par viewing angle. The image fades and looks washed out as you move even slightly off-center, so it's not a good choice for a wide seating arrangement, as anyone sitting off-center will see a degraded image. If you have a wide seating arrangement, check out the LG QNED85 instead.
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LEARN ABOUT VIEWING ANGLE
7.5 Picture Quality
Screen Finish
Total Reflections
Indirect Reflections
Calculated Direct Reflections
The Hisense U7 has good reflection handling. The semi-gloss coating reduces the intensity of direct reflections a bit, but it's not as good as the glossy coating on the Hisense U8/U8H.
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LEARN ABOUT REFLECTIONS
6.8 Picture Quality
100% Black to 50% Gray 4.0
50% Gray to 100% White 8.0
100% Black to 50% Red 6.0
50% Red to 100% Red 10
100% Black to 50% Green 6.0
50% Green to 100% Green 8.0
100% Black to 50% Blue 6.0
50% Blue to 100% Blue 6.0
The Hisense U7 has good gradient handling. There's some noticeable banding in all colors, especially in darker shades. There are a few features to reduce banding, but it doesn't appear to work properly and doesn't reduce banding in both test patterns and real content.
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4.8 Picture Quality
Smoothing 3.0
Detail Preservation 9.0
The TV has poor low-quality content smoothing. Although it preserves details well, there is no noticeable smoothing done, and macro-blocking is still present in dark scenes.
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7.5 Picture Quality
The TV upscales content properly, with no scaling issues or artifacts.
Sharpness processing was calibrated with no over-sharpening for low-resolution or low-bitrate content, with the following setting:
- Sharpness: 10
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Picture Quality
Subpixel Layout
Type LED
Sub-Type
Like most TVs on the market, the Hisense U7H uses a BGR (Blue-Green-Red) subpixel layout instead of the traditional Red-Green-Blue layout. For video content, it doesn't cause any issues, but if you're planning on using this TV as a PC monitor, this reduces text clarity a bit, although there are easy workarounds for it. You can read more about this here.
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6.8 Motion
80% Response Time
100% Response Time
Unfortunately, the TV has just an okay response time. Most transitions are very slow, resulting in a long blur trail behind fast-moving objects when gaming or watching sports.
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9.9 Motion
Flicker-Free
PWM Dimming Frequency
Unfortunately, the Hisense U7H uses pulse-width modulation (PWM) to dim the backlight. It flickers at a high flicker frequency in all picture modes, even with motion interpolation enabled. This high flicker frequency isn't noticeable to most people, but it can cause headaches if you're sensitive to flicker.
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Motion
Optional BFI
Min Flicker For 60 fps
60Hz For 60 fps
120Hz For 120 fps
Min Flicker for 60 fps in Game Mode
The TV has an optional backlight strobing feature, which is commonly known as black frame insertion. It supports both 120Hz and 60Hz flicker depending on the content, which ensures that you don't see any duplications in motion.
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LEARN ABOUT BLACK FRAME INSERTION (BFI)
Motion
Motion Interpolation (30 fps)
Motion Interpolation (60 fps)
The Hisense U7 has an optional motion interpolation feature that can affect the appearance of low frame rate content. Like most TVs, it performs best with slower scenes, as there are significant artifacts in busier scenes or fast action shots.
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LEARN ABOUT MOTION INTERPOLATION
7.5 Motion
Frame Hold Time @ 24 fps
Frame Hold Time @ 60 fps
Thanks to its relatively slow response time, there isn't much stutter on the Hisense U7 when watching low frame rate content, like movies or shows.
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10 Motion
Judder-Free 24p
Judder-Free 24p via 60p
Judder-Free 24p via 60i
Judder-Free 24p via Native Apps
The Hisense U7 automatically removes judder from any source, ensuring a smooth movie-watching experience.
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9.4 Motion
Native Refresh Rate
Variable Refresh Rate
HDMI Forum VRR
FreeSync
G-SYNC Compatible
4k VRR Maximum
4k VRR Minimum
1080p VRR Maximum
1080p VRR Minimum
1440p VRR Maximum
1440p VRR Minimum
VRR + Local Dimming Yes
The TV supports a variable refresh rate (VRR), and it's compatible with most sources that support VRR. Unfortunately, like the Hisense U8/U8H, it doesn't work well with NVIDIA graphics cards, as there's tearing with test patterns and games.
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9.4 Inputs
1080p @ 60Hz
1080p @ 60Hz Outside Game Mode
1080p @ 120Hz
1080p @ 144Hz
1440p @ 60Hz
1440p @ 120Hz
1440p @ 144Hz
4k @ 60Hz
4k @ 60Hz + 10-Bit HDR
4k @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4
4k @ 60Hz Outside Game Mode
4k @ 60Hz With Interpolation
4k @ 120Hz
4k @ 144Hz
8k @ 60Hz
The Hisense U7 has incredibly low input lag, so your actions in-game or on the desktop feel responsive and fluid.
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9.6 Inputs
Resolution 4k
480p @ 59.94Hz (Widescreen)
720p @ 59.94Hz
1080p @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4
1080p @ 120Hz
1080p @ 144Hz
1440p @ 60Hz
1440p @ 120Hz
1440p @ 144Hz
4k @ 60Hz
4k @ 60Hz @ 4:4:4
4k @ 120Hz
4k @ 120Hz @ 4:4:4
4k @ 144Hz
8k @ 30Hz or 24Hz
8k @ 60Hz
The Hisense U7 supports most common resolutions, and it displays chroma 4:4:4, which is essential for clear text from a PC. 4k @ 120Hz is also displayed properly, even with chroma 4:4:4, as long as you set the HDMI Input Optimization setting to 'Text Clarity Optimization'.
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Inputs
Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM)
4k @ 120Hz
1440p @ 120Hz
1080p @ 120Hz
HDR
VRR
The Hisense U7H is fully compatible with all supported features of the PS5, including VRR and 1440p support. Sadly, 4k @ 120Hz isn't displayed properly, as it's a bit blurry.
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Inputs
Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM)
4k @ 120Hz
1440p @ 120Hz
1080p @ 120Hz
HDR
VRR
The Hisense U7H is compatible with all supported features of the Xbox Series S and X, including VRR and 1440p support. Sadly, 4k @ 120Hz isn't displayed properly, as it's a bit blurry.
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Inputs
HDR10
HDR10+
Dolby Vision
HLG
HDMI 2.0 Full Bandwidth
HDMI 2.1 Class Bandwidth
CEC Yes
HDCP 2.2 Yes (HDMI 1,2,3,4)
ATSC Tuner
USB 3.0
Variable Analog Audio Out Yes
Wi-Fi Support Yes (2.4 GHz, 5 GHz)
Two of the HDMI inputs support HDMI 2.1 bandwidth. Sadly, one of them is also the eARC port, so if you're planning on connecting your receiver or soundbar over eARC, you can only connect one other HDMI 2.1 device to the TV. Unlike most TVs, the Hisense U7H supports both HDR10+ and Dolby Vision. The ATSC 3.0 tuner allows you to stream 4k channels over the air with an antenna if it's supported in your area.
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Inputs
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Inputs
HDMI 4
USB 2
Digital Optical Audio Out 1
Analog Audio Out 3.5mm 1
Analog Audio Out RCA 0
Component In 0
Composite In 1 (adapter required, not incl.)
Tuner (Cable/Ant) 1
Ethernet 1
DisplayPort 0
IR In 0
Unfortunately, there's no direct connection for composite sources. Instead, it requires an external breakout adapter, which is no longer included in the box.
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Inputs
ARC/eARC Port
eARC: Dolby Atmos Over Dolby Digital Plus
eARC: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
eARC: LPCM 7.1 Over Dolby MAT
eARC: Dolby TrueHD 7.1
eARC: DTS:X Over DTS-HD MA
eARC: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
eARC: LPCM Channels (Bitstream)
ARC: Dolby Digital 5.1
ARC: DTS 5.1
Optical: Dolby Digital 5.1
Optical: DTS 5.1
The Hisense U7H supports eARC and can pass advanced DTS and Dolby formats from a connected source to your soundbar or sound system.
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6.2 Sound Quality
Low-Frequency Extension
Std. Dev. @ 70
Std. Dev. @ 80
Std. Dev. @ Max
Max
Dynamic Range Compression
The Hisense U7H has a mediocre frequency response. Like most TVs, there's almost no thump or rumble. Dialogue is clear and easy to understand, but there's a pretty significant dip in the mid-to-high treble range, but it's not very noticeable with most content.
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LEARN ABOUT FREQUENCY RESPONSE
7.5 Sound Quality
Weighted THD @ 80
Weighted THD @ Max
IMD @ 80
IMD @ Max
The Hisense U7H has very good distortion performance. There's very little harmonic distortion, even at high volume levels.
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8.0 Smart Features
Smart OS Google TV
Version 11
Ease of Use
Smoothness
Time Taken to Select YouTube
Time Taken to Change Backlight
Advanced Options
The Hisense U7H comes with Google TV 11, which is essentially an updated version of the Android TV platform used by 2021 Hisense TV models. The interface is a bit sleeker and more modern, but it performs very similarly to other Google TV and Android TV devices.
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0 Smart Features
Ads
Opt-out
Suggested Content in Home
Opt-out of Suggested Content
Like most modern TVs, there are ads and suggested content throughout the interface. You can opt-out of suggested content, but this just changes the type of ads you'll see, not the quantity.
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9.0 Smart Features
App Selection
App Smoothness
Cast Capable
USB Drive Playback
USB Drive HDR Playback
HDR in Netflix
HDR in YouTube
The Google Play Store has a ton of apps you can download.
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8.0 Smart Features
Size
Voice Control
CEC Menu Control
Other Smart Features
Remote App Hisense RemoteNOW
The Hisense U7H comes with a slightly redesigned remote compared to the remote that came with 2021 Hisense TVs. Like most modern remotes, it lacks a Numpad, and there are quick-access buttons to a few popular streaming services.
This TV supports both Google Assistant and Alexa, so you can ask it to search for content, open apps, and switch inputs. You can give voice commands to the remote directly by pressing the dedicated button, and it also supports hands-free voice control thanks to the TV's built-in far-field mic. There's also a feature to find your remote using the TV's voice controls.
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Smart Features
There's a button underneath the center of the TV to turn the TV On/Off and switch inputs. There's another button to disable the mic built into the TV if you're concerned about privacy.
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Smart Features
- Remote
- 2x AAA batteries
- Power cable
- Quick setup guide
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Smart Features
Power Consumption 68 W
Power Consumption (Max) 213 W
Firmware V0010.01.00M.M0809
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