Image quality
Picture quality is perhaps the most important part of a TV. What do families think of the image quality of the Hisense OLED TV? And, which settings did you like or not? Family 1 (Vredeveld family)
Out of the box, the television is in standard mode. However, there are five other picture mode variants, namely cinema day, cinema night, dynamic, sports and movie maker. I have tried all these variants. The standard mode that the television is automatically set to has a reasonably good image in itself. The image mode cinema day and night are quite similar. The difference in the two is mainly the intensity of the light. In day mode it is brighter than in night mode. Other than that I don’t see any difference. I think it looks better when it’s brighter. That’s why I mainly used the cinema day mode. In this mode I set the color temperature from warm 1 to warm 2, in OLED light the brightness from medium to high and turned off the automatic light sensor. I tried the sport mode during different sports. The colors all become slightly brighter and fast-moving images become softer and smoother. In the system menu there is also an option for automatic sport mode detection. This should ensure that when you watch sports, the sports mode is switched on automatically. I watched this several times, but unfortunately the television did not switch to sports mode itself and I always had to do this manually. Once in sports mode, it looks very good. The reflections from the television are not disturbing in this autumn weather, but on clear days you can still see quite a few reflections.
Family 2 (van Lijsdonk family)
The TV itself recognized the type of broadcast and sound and automatically switched to the best picture and sound settings. I played a bit with the different settings for image and sound, but found that the settings that the TV had chosen were generally good. Switching to a different picture setting made the picture less and the same applied to the sound. With music broadcasts I felt I could still tune the sound a bit with the equalizer that can be found in the settings, but for films, series and sports the settings of the TV were just right. And regardless of what I was watching everything looked fantastic. No vibrations, delays or distorted image while watching. I sometimes suffer from this with my own TV, especially with sports. But with this Hisense we did not experience any problem with the image quality or the sound. Is there no downside at all? Not as far as image quality and sound quality are concerned, but when switching from streaming services to set-top box things went wrong time and time again. Where I first thought that the problem with the HDMI ports was a setup thing, it turned out during the test that this became a constant irritation. As soon as someone had used a streaming app on the TV, the HDMI channels could no longer be used. Only after the cable was disconnected and reconnected could the HDMI channel be used.
Family 3 (van Osch family)
This TV has different modes such as cinema, dynamic, sports and movie maker. What you then play (blue-Ray, movie channel or whatever) should then inform the TV which settings should be used for the image. I have not experienced this myself, but the reactions on the internet are not too positive about this. Smart Scene is also a setting in which the images should be recognized and the quality should improve. I ended up turning this one off as well. You can adjust the settings per source, or for all at once. Very nice; image via the decoder is different from that of a console or computer. After a few evenings of playing around, I found my settings for the Ziggo decoder. What is especially striking with dark films is that you still see everything that appears in the dark, and you do not have a large black part. Most of what is broadcast is just HD and that looks very good, vibrant and smooth. For 4k I bought an HDMI 2.1 cable so that it can be played through the computer. Biggest advantage here; HDR, which is not yet used on the Ziggo box. Only then do you really see how good the image is, compared to the plasma TV, but also compared to my monitor.