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yay!
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yes! I’d love to see this compared to the roku select series
The product has arrived in our lab, and our testers will start evaluating it soon.
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Could you please provide an update on the estimated time for the evaluators to review this TV? It’s quite urgent as my current TV has stopped working. I’m considering purchasing this model for my bedroom but am still undecided. Additionally, could you confirm if this model is similar to the Canadian model A7GV? Thank you so much!
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Could you please provide an update on the estimated time for the evaluators to review this TV? It’s quite urgent as my current TV has stopped working. I’m considering purchasing this model for my bedroom but am still undecided. Additionally, could you confirm if this model is similar to the Canadian model A7GV? Thank you so much!
Unfortunately, our display testers are currently testing other TVs at the moment. We don’t have an expected testing date for this TV right now, so it’ll probably be a few weeks. Sorry about that!
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After purchasing the 75U8N for our living room, on the very next day we got the 65A7N for our daughter who’s old Philips 47" TV was like 15 years old. Boy is she happy. Yeah, we just couldn’t wait for rtings to review these two TV’s.
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I just got a 43" A7N after my A6H started showing some bad pixels. I’ve got to say the image quality and speed of the UI and motion are much improved. for a $200 TV I’m not sure this can be beat. Looking forward to the review.
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Any kind of update on when this will begin to be tested? I want but don’t really need a new bedroom tv and this looks like it, but I need something tangible other than strangers’ opinions to push me over the edge. Or not.
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Any kind of update on when this will begin to be tested? I want but don’t really need a new bedroom tv and this looks like it, but I need something tangible other than strangers’ opinions to push me over the edge. Or not.
It hasn’t been scheduled for testing yet, so it’s hard to say for sure. But likely several weeks. Sorry about that!
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Not sure why this tv has takin so long . Nog blaming the testers of course I know how you can only do what you can do ..but this is one of top selling tvs at our best buy store ,we sell a ton of them .
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Not sure why this tv has takin so long . Nog blaming the testers of course I know how you can only do what you can do ..but this is one of top selling tvs at our best buy store ,we sell a ton of them .
We’ve been buying lots of TVs, generally more TVs than we have display testers. So it’s taking us a bit of time to get to all of them. We also make some judgement calls internally about the priority in which we buy and test them (usually based on products we expect more of our users to be interested in). Sorry for the confusion!
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Curious why this one was in the lab for 2 or more months longer than the A6N– Hopefully this one would be unpacked and reviewed before or at the same time? I generally do like the flagships of each brand, but I work alongside people who sell TVs and it’s nice to see how the entry level models compare. You would be surprised how many older people say “c0nSooMEr rEp0Rts” in 2024 and I’m like, “Nah, RTINGs is the new hotness.” Everyone on here knows that to be true, and appreciate all the work your staff does, RTINGS labs!
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which size did you order?
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Curious why this one was in the lab for 2 or more months longer than the A6N– Hopefully this one would be unpacked and reviewed before or at the same time? I generally do like the flagships of each brand, but I work alongside people who sell TVs and it’s nice to see how the entry level models compare. You would be surprised how many older people say “c0nSooMEr rEp0Rts” in 2024 and I’m like, “Nah, RTINGs is the new hotness.” Everyone on here knows that to be true, and appreciate all the work your staff does, RTINGS labs!
Agreed, fingers crossed this is coming soon. I love RTINGS, but the fact that they’ve had this in for almost four months and haven’t started to review it probably indicates some staffing issues.
Totally understand the importance of having a backlog of products on deck for review, but considering TV models are refreshed annually, a third of a year is a long time to wait for a review.
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Curious why this one was in the lab for 2 or more months longer than the A6N– Hopefully this one would be unpacked and reviewed before or at the same time? I generally do like the flagships of each brand, but I work alongside people who sell TVs and it’s nice to see how the entry level models compare. You would be surprised how many older people say “c0nSooMEr rEp0Rts” in 2024 and I’m like, “Nah, RTINGs is the new hotness.” Everyone on here knows that to be true, and appreciate all the work your staff does, RTINGS labs!
Thanks for the support!
As I’ve seen a few comments about this now, I’d like to explain a bit of our strategy this year, as I admit it might seem a bit confusing why certain TVs have been in the lab for so long without being tested.
Previously, we roughly followed a “Just In Time” approach to buying TVs. This means that we attempted to buy TVs for review so that they would arrive close to when we finished the TVs we were currently testing. The problem with this approach is that we often ran out. We’re in Canada, but we buy our TVs from the U.S., and shipping up to our lab is often a bit complicated. This lead to repeated downtime for our testing team, with no TVs available for them to test.
This year we decided to change that approach. We decided to buy all new TVs as they were released, to make sure nothing went out of stock before we were able to buy one, and to make sure we never ran out of TVs to test. Since most manufacturers release their new lineups at once in April and May, this meant that we bought a lot of TVs early in the year. We can only test about 2 TVs per week due to limitations with equipment, testing space, and TV testers, though, so this meant carrying a significant backlog.
We’ve been working through that backlog as quickly as possible, prioritizing the models that we know to be the most popular. This meant that cheaper budget models that don’t have as much consumer interest were set aside. We’ve now tested most of the popular models that we expect to be released this year, and for the rest of the year we’ll be moving through the backlog mostly by order of reception, so the oldest ones will be tested first.
We know it’s frustrating to see a TV you care about not get tested for a while, but rest assured, we are getting to them.
Our testers have started testing this product; is there anything specific you’re looking to see? Let us know in this thread.
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Thanks for the support! As I’ve seen a few comments about this now, I’d like to explain a bit of our strategy this year, as I admit it might seem a bit confusing why certain TVs have been in the lab for so long without being tested. Previously, we roughly followed a “Just In Time” approach to buying TVs. This means that we attempted to buy TVs for review so that they would arrive close to when we finished the TVs we were currently testing. The problem with this approach is that we often ran out. We’re in Canada, but we buy our TVs from the U.S., and shipping up to our lab is often a bit complicated. This lead to repeated downtime for our testing team, with no TVs available for them to test. This year we decided to change that approach. We decided to buy all new TVs as they were released, to make sure nothing went out of stock before we were able to buy one, and to make sure we never ran out of TVs to test. Since most manufacturers release their new lineups at once in April and May, this meant that we bought a lot of TVs early in the year. We can only test about 2 TVs per week due to limitations with equipment, testing space, and TV testers, though, so this meant carrying a significant backlog. We’ve been working through that backlog as quickly as possible, prioritizing the models that we know to be the most popular. This meant that cheaper budget models that don’t have as much consumer interest were set aside. We’ve now tested most of the popular models that we expect to be released this year, and for the rest of the year we’ll be moving through the backlog mostly by order of reception, so the oldest ones will be tested first. We know it’s frustrating to see a TV you care about not get tested for a while, but rest assured, we are getting to them.
Appreciate the inside scoop, and I hope my comment didn’t come off any bad way– More of a curious thing, and sharing my insights, working inside of a Best Buy, as a vendor, and spending some slow times in the home theater and working alongside their staff just talking to people and helping them decide which TV to buy, or helping to test them so they cna decide for themselves.
Again, appreciate all that you do!
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Appreciate the inside scoop, and I hope my comment didn’t come off any bad way– More of a curious thing, and sharing my insights, working inside of a Best Buy, as a vendor, and spending some slow times in the home theater and working alongside their staff just talking to people and helping them decide which TV to buy, or helping to test them so they cna decide for themselves. Again, appreciate all that you do!
Would like to see some details around how to remove the soap opera effect. I’ve turned off several processing settings, but still seems to be applied.
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Appreciate the inside scoop, and I hope my comment didn’t come off any bad way– More of a curious thing, and sharing my insights, working inside of a Best Buy, as a vendor, and spending some slow times in the home theater and working alongside their staff just talking to people and helping them decide which TV to buy, or helping to test them so they cna decide for themselves. Again, appreciate all that you do!
Oh of course not, your comment didn’t come in a bad way at all! We appreciate the feedback and understand that this change can be a bit confusing. It’s come up often so I just felt we needed to explain our approach this year.
Early access to our full test results is now available for Insiders! Become an insider to check it out here.
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I have the 43A7N and I’m missing most of the advanced picture settings that you’re showing on the calibration settings page. Are these just not available on the 43"?
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Hi Adam, thanks for the reply. I’m missing anything to do with tone mapping and dark detail, just off the top of my head.
That’s odd. I’d suggest reaching out to Hisense, I can’t think of any reason why you wouldn’t have access to those settings. Are you able to confirm the exact model number of your unit with the label on the back of the TV?
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FYI
Mine allows 1440@60 AFTER updates. Before updates, PC was showing max 1440@30.
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Yes, it’s the 43A7N.
Hey there. Adam is on vacation so I’ll step in and try my best to help you. I looked into this some more and I can’t find any indication that certain settings are missing on the 43" model. When you go into the ‘Brightness’ settings, what settings do you actually have? It might be worth reaching out to Hisense to ask them about this, as they should be able to confirm whether or not the 43" has less settings than the bigger sizes.
Update: We mentioned the newly-reviewed Hisense CanvasTV QLED 2024 in the SDR Brightness section of this review.
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I’m curious to know if that weird input lag glitch was ever patched, and if there were any signs that it was active outside of just playing a game and feeling it. I’m interested in picking this up primarily as a replacement for a 2017 Toshiba with 32ms of input latency, and it’ll go in a basement nook, so a lot of the cons are irrelevant. I’ll have this hooked up with an Xbox Series X and a PS5, but it’ll also have a Switch and a Mister, which both will run at 1080p60. This all means that I really don’t want to get stuck regularly power cycling to restore the input lag.
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I’m curious to know if that weird input lag glitch was ever patched, and if there were any signs that it was active outside of just playing a game and feeling it. I’m interested in picking this up primarily as a replacement for a 2017 Toshiba with 32ms of input latency, and it’ll go in a basement nook, so a lot of the cons are irrelevant. I’ll have this hooked up with an Xbox Series X and a PS5, but it’ll also have a Switch and a Mister, which both will run at 1080p60. This all means that I really don’t want to get stuck regularly power cycling to restore the input lag.
I’d like to know this too. This tv seems perfect for my needs but this is a problem. Does it affect every size or just the one tested? Was Hinsense informed about it by you guys?
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I’m curious to know if that weird input lag glitch was ever patched, and if there were any signs that it was active outside of just playing a game and feeling it. I’m interested in picking this up primarily as a replacement for a 2017 Toshiba with 32ms of input latency, and it’ll go in a basement nook, so a lot of the cons are irrelevant. I’ll have this hooked up with an Xbox Series X and a PS5, but it’ll also have a Switch and a Mister, which both will run at 1080p60. This all means that I really don’t want to get stuck regularly power cycling to restore the input lag.
We’re not aware of any recent firmware updates that fix the input lag bug we encountered. It’s possible that regular users wouldn’t even encounter this bug, as we’re constantly changing settings, inputs, and other things during our testing phase, which could have played a part in us encountering the bug. Either way, we hope that this is something that Hisense can fix sometime in the near future.
Update: Mentioned the newly-reviewed Hisense QD7N QLED in the Supported Resolutions section of this review.
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Hey guys …I was wondering what your opinion on the hisense A6N vs. A7N. I see that last years 2023 A6 has same rating as this year 2024 A7. Do you think hisense made some improvements on the 2024 A6 ?
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Hey guys …I was wondering what your opinion on the hisense A6N vs. A7N. I see that last years 2023 A6 has same rating as this year 2024 A7. Do you think hisense made some improvements on the 2024 A6 ?
Probably not. I’d expect the A6N to perform slightly worse than the A7N overall, but it won’t be a huge difference, likely just slightly worse contrast and slightly lower peak brightness. We’ll see soon, though!
Update: We added a comparison to the newly-reviewed Hisense QD6/QD65NF QLED in the Contrast box.
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I keep on seeing mixed results for this Tv, just wanted to make sure before I buy. Is it LCD or LED?
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I keep on seeing mixed results for this Tv, just wanted to make sure before I buy. Is it LCD or LED?
Like most TVs on the market in 2024, it’s technically both! It uses LEDs as a backlight system, but there’s a separate LCD layer that controls the pixels themselves. It’s not a true LED TV, which is commonly called MicroLED, as those TVs cost many tens (even hundreds) of thousands of dollars and aren’t widely accessible yet.
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Input lag issue still around? Currently shopping for a cheap office ps5 and some streaming tv…
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Despite being a 60hz set, what does the “Blur Reduction” setting do, and how does it look on this set in comparison to 120hz panels?
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Despite being a 60hz set, what does the “Blur Reduction” setting do, and how does it look on this set in comparison to 120hz panels?
Hi, this is covered in the Motion Interpolation section of our review. Thanks!
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Hi, this is covered in the Motion Interpolation section of our review. Thanks!
I saw the section, but I was talking about the blur reduction setting as a technology/algorithm on 60hz sets, because that setting is supposed to increase a 60fps signal to 120fps on higher refresh rate sets, but this isn’t a 120hz set, and other 60hz sets only have judder reduction. So, I’m wondering what’s the TV doing internally with the blur reduction slider maxed out in regards to this set being only 60hz?
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I saw the section, but I was talking about the blur reduction setting as a technology/algorithm on 60hz sets, because that setting is supposed to increase a 60fps signal to 120fps on higher refresh rate sets, but this isn’t a 120hz set, and other 60hz sets only have judder reduction. So, I’m wondering what’s the TV doing internally with the blur reduction slider maxed out in regards to this set being only 60hz?
That’s what we’re talking about in that section as well. We don’t do a deep investigation of the different motion interpolation features, but we do test it with the blur slider at max and our text in that section describes the TV’s performance. I can’t tell you what it’s doing internally, but that section describes what it looks like to the user.