Hisense 75U8N TV Review

The Hisense 75U8N has excellent HDR brightness. Highlights really pop out during darker scenes, and the TV is bright enough that most very bright specular highlights even stand out in well-lit scenes.

These measurements are after calibrating the HDR white point with the following settings:

• HDR Picture Mode: Filmmaker Mode
• Local Dimming: High
• Peak Brightness: High
• Brightness: 100
• Contrast: 50
• Black Level: 0
• Dark Detail: Off
• Gamma: ST2084
• Active Contrast: Off
• Dynamic Tone Mapping: Off
• Color Temperature: Warm 1

The Hisense U8N 75-inch is slightly brighter in PC/Game Mode, but it's hardly noticeable.

These measurements are after calibrating the HDR white point with the following settings:

• HDR Picture Mode: HDR Game
• Local Dimming: High
• Peak Brightness: High
• Brightness: 100
• Contrast: 50
• Black Level: 0
• Dark Detail: Off
• Gamma: ST2084
• Active Contrast: Off
• Dynamic Tone Mapping: Off
• Color Temperature: Warm 1

The Hisense 75U8N has superb SDR brightness and easily overcomes glare in even the brightest of rooms.

These measurements are after calibration with the following settings:

• Picture Mode: Theater Night
• Local Dimming: High
• Peak Brightness: High
• Brightness: 100
• Gamma: 2.2
• Color Temperature: Warm 1
• Active Contrast: Off

The Hisense 75U8N has decent contrast. Its native contrast is poor, but with local dimming enabled, the TV displays deep enough blacks in a dark room that mostly stay that way when bright highlights are also on screen. Unfortunately, the 75-inch model's contrast ratio is a lot lower than it is on the other sizes, so you don't get the same extremely deep blacks that are approaching OLED territory.

The TV has very good lighting zone precision, but there's some noticeable blooming around bright objects and subtitles when displayed against a black background.

The Hisense U8N 75-inch has very good lighting zone transitions, but it does struggle a bit with very fast-moving content. There's minimal haloing, but the leading edge of quick-moving objects is visibly dimmer.

There's slightly more blooming when the TV is set to PC/Game Mode, but outside of that, there's no noticeable difference in dark scene performance.

The TV has excellent black uniformity. With local dimming disabled, blacks are a bit cloudy and blueish. With local dimming enabled, blacks are deep and mostly uniform across the screen, with only a bit of blooming around bright objects on a dark background.

This TV has excellent SDR color volume. It struggles a bit with dark colors in the DCI-P3 color space, but its coverage increases as colors become lighter. Its coverage of the wider BT.2020 space isn't as good, and it struggles to display both light and dark colors in that space.

The Hisense U8N 75-inch has excellent color volume. The TV displays a wide range of colors at high luminance levels, and most dark saturated colors are displayed well due to its solid local dimming.

The Hisense U8N 75-inch has very good pre-calibration SDR accuracy. Gamma is close to our target of 2.2, but most scenes are displayed a bit darker than intended. The white balance is decent, but there is too much red in most shades of gray, and blues and greens are a bit underrepresented in most shades. The color accuracy is great, but whites, yellows, and cyans have minor inaccuracies. The color temperature is fantastic, but it's a bit too warm.

The Hisense 75U8N has outstanding SDR accuracy after calibration, but the TV is a bit difficult to calibrate since higher grayscale values don't do much at all. Still, any noticeable issues with white balance are gone, color temperature is essentially perfect, and gamma is even closer to our target of 2.2, with only very dark and very bright scenes still being a bit too bright. The color accuracy is outstanding, with only minor errors that aren't noticeable to most people.

See our full calibration settings.

The TV has okay accuracy in HDR before calibration. There's way too much blue in most shades of gray, which makes the TV's color temperature noticeably cooler than 6500K. Overall, color accuracy is adequate, but there are numerous color mapping errors throughout its entire color range.

After calibration, the TV has very good accuracy. Its white balance is better now, but it's still not perfect, and there's still too much blue throughout mid-grays. Unfortunately, the TV's color temperature is roughly the same, so the image looks too cool. Color accuracy is good now, but there are still mapping errors throughout, most notably in blues, reds, and yellows.

The Hisense 75U8N has alright PQ EOTF tracking. Blacks and near blacks are displayed slightly brighter than intended, and everything else is displayed a bit dimmer than intended. There's a slight roll-off near the TV's maximum brightness with content mastered at all nit levels. The TV is bright enough to display content mastered at 600 and 1000 nits, but the roll-off helps to main detail in very bright specular highlights with content mastered at 4000 nits.

The TV has very good low-quality content smoothing. It does a great job at smoothing out artifacts in low-bitrate content while still preserving details.

The Hisense 75U8N does a good job at upscaling low-resolution content like DVDs or lower-resolution streams. Details are clear enough, but finer details are a bit hard to make out.

Sharpness processing was calibrated with no over-sharpening for low-resolution content, with the following settings:

• Sharpness: 13
• Super Resolution: On

The TV has very good HDR gradient handling. There's noticeable banding in brighter blues, but all other colors have minimal or no banding at all.

This TV has excellently low input lag when set to PC/Game Mode, which ensures a very responsive gaming experience with very little delay between your actions with your controller or mouse and the action on-screen. In 1080p @ 240Hz, the input lag is 3.1 ms.

The TV supports all common resolutions up to 4k @ 144Hz on two of its four HDMI ports. Unfortunately, 1080p @ 240Hz only works properly with VRR disabled.

The Hisense U8N 75-inch supports all three VRR formats, so it has great compatibility regardless of the source. Unfortunately, with 1080p @ 240Hz and VRR enabled, the TV's built-in frame counter shows 72Hz, and there's bad frame skipping and desaturated colors, and chroma 4:4:4 isn't displayed properly. With VRR disabled, 1080p @ 240Hz works without issues.

Unfortunately, the TV's response time behaves differently with VRR enabled. It's more aggressive with refresh rates above 100Hz, which leads to a faster response time but with more overshoot errors. When the TV hovers around 100Hz, the rapid changes in behavior when it goes above and below that threshold are a bit distracting. However, it's not nearly as noticeable as it's on the other sizes of the TV that use a VA panel since the overdrive isn't as aggressive. There are no issues at all when running at a fixed refresh rate.

The TV's CAD at its maximum refresh rate is okay. Pixel transitions from bright shades to dark ones are slower overall, which leads to noticeable motion blur. It performs better when going from dark shades to bright ones, but it consistently overshoots RGB values, which leads to some inverse ghosting.

The TV's CAD at 120Hz is not bad. Its performs best when pixels transition away from darker shades into brighter ones, but it's still on the slower side. It's even slower when going from bright shades to dark ones, so all fast motion has noticeable trails of blur behind it.

The TV's CAD at 60Hz is unremarkable. It struggles when going from bright shades to dark ones, and although it's better when going from dark shades to bright ones, it's still not great. Since it has pretty slow pixel transitions and there's persistence blur due to the nature of a 60Hz refresh rate, fast motion is quite blurry.

The Hisense 75 U8N is fully compatible with everything the PS5 offers, like 1440p @ 120Hz and 4k @ 120Hz, as well as HDMI Forum VRR. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to worry about manually switching to PC/Game Mode to get the lowest input lag.

The Hisense 75 U8N is fully compatible with everything the Xbox Series X|S offers, including 1440p @ 120Hz, 4k @ 120Hz, HDMI Forum VRR, FreeSync Premium Pro, and Dolby Vision gaming. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to worry about manually switching to PC/Game Mode to get the lowest input lag.

Due to the TV's relatively quick response time, there's some minor stutter when watching movies or TV shows, and it's most apparent in slow panning shots.

The TV gives a judder-free experience with 24p sources like a Blu-ray player and native apps. It also removes judder from 60p sources like some streaming devices and gaming consoles. Unfortunately, it doesn't remove 24p judder from 60i sources like some cable TV boxes, although you can use the 'Motion Enhancement' with 'Judder Reduction: 1' to remove judder from 60i sources without introducing noticeable interpolation or artifacts.

The Hisense 75U8N has a great response time for minimal blur behind fast-moving objects when watching content.

Unfortunately, the TV has a response time issue with VRR enabled.

The TV uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to dim its backlight, which introduces flicker that can bother people who are sensitive to it. Fortunately, it flickers at a very fast 7800Hz in all picture modes and at all brightness levels, so it's not noticeable.

The TV supports backlight strobing, more commonly known as black frame insertion (BFI). The feature is designed to improve the appearance of motion by strobing its backlight and reducing the amount of persistence blur. Unfortunately, it only inserts black frames at a 120Hz refresh rate, and the image is blurry with some image duplication.

This TV has an optional motion interpolation feature to improve the clarity of motion, but it doesn't work very well. Even slower-moving scenes have some noticeable artifacts present. In faster-moving scenes, the TV really struggles, and there are distracting artifacts and haloing.

The TV has adequate direct reflection handling. It lessens the intensity of direct light sources, but your lamp, wall light, or window is still quite visible on the screen.

The TV has exceptional black levels in a bright room. Black levels are barely raised in a room with ambient lighting, so they remain deep and impactful.

The Hisense U8N 75-inch does an excellent job with total reflected light, and its glossy screen finish significantly reduces the intensity of reflections without any distracting artifacts.

The TV has very good color saturation in ambient lighting. Colors barely lose any saturation in a room with the lights on, so you get vibrant colors regardless of your viewing conditions.

The Hisense U8N 75-inch has a decent viewing angle. The image looks mostly consistent from a slight angle, but there's brightness loss, gamma shifting, color shifting, and color washout that worsens the further you move off-center. Although its viewing angle is wider than a lot of other LED TVs, the image is noticeably degraded at an aggressive angle. It's a good option for watching TV with a smaller group of friends who can remain somewhat centered to the screen, but it's not quite good enough for a very wide seating arrangement.

The TV has okay gray uniformity, but there's some dirty screen effect towards the center of the screen and vignetting in the corners. On a very dark or near-black screen, its uniformity is very good, but the bottom left side is lighter than the rest of the screen.

The TV has an RGB sub-pixel layout, so it doesn't have any issues rendering text when used as a PC monitor.

Note that all other sizes of the TV use a VA panel with a BGR subpixel layout, which can affect text clarity.

The TV uses quantum dots to achieve high color peaks with excellent separation between blues, greens, and reds. This gives the TV great color purity and allows it to display a very wide color gamut.

The TV has HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on HDMI ports 3 and 4, with both supporting up to 4k @ 144Hz. Fortunately, HDMI 1 is the eARC port, so you don't lose a high-bandwidth port when you plug a soundbar into the TV. The TV supports all HDR formats and has an ATSC 3.0 tuner, so you can watch over-the-air 4k content.

The TV supports eARC, which lets you pass high-quality, uncompressed audio to a compatible receiver or soundbar through an HDMI cable. It supports all major audio formats, so you don't have to worry about compatibility with external sources.

The Hisense 75U8N looks the same as the other sizes. It has a premium design overall, with thin bezels on the sides and top and a slightly thicker bottom bezel.

The TV comes with a metal center-mounted stand that doesn't require a large table to place the TV on. The stand can be adjusted into two different positions. The lower position lifts the TV about two inches above the table, which brings the screen very close to your table. The higher position (pictured above) lifts the TV about 3.54 inches, so most soundbars fit underneath without blocking the screen.

Footprint of the 75-inch stand: 15.75" x 11.42".

The back is made of plastic and has a grid-like pattern that resembles a lot of Sony TVs. Most of the inputs are side-facing, but they're close enough to the edge of the TV that they are accessible when it's wall-mounted. A USB, Ethernet, and optical port are located in a recessed cutout that faces the back. Unfortunately, these aren't accessible if you have the TV mounted flush to the wall. The TV has a built-in subwoofer near the top, and you can funnel cables through the TV's stand to help with cable management.

The Hisense U8N 75-inch has great build quality. It's mostly made of plastic, but it's sturdy and well-built overall. The center-mounted stand provides good stability, and there are no glaring issues with the TV's design. Unfortunately, our unit did have some dirt behind the screen. It's not noticeable with most content, but it's a bit distracting in scenes that have large areas of uniform color.

The Hisense 75U8N uses version 12 of the popular Google TV operating system. The interface is very smooth and easy to use.

Unfortunately, like almost all TVs on the market, the smart interface contains ads, and you can't disable them.

The TV comes with Hisense's newly designed remote that is backlit. It has buttons for popular streaming services, and you can use the built-in microphone to switch inputs, change apps, search within apps, and ask for the weather and time. Unfortunately, you can't change the settings on the TV using the voice controls.

There's a single button on the bottom center of the TV that can be used to switch inputs and power the TV on/off. There's also a small switch that you can use to turn on/off the TV's built-in microphone.

• Quick setup guide
• Remote
• 2x AAA batteries
• Power cable
• Extra screws

The Hisense U8N 75-inch has an alright frequency response. The TV gets pretty loud, and dialogue is clear and easy to understand at moderate volume levels, but the sound becomes more unbalanced as you approach its maximum volume. You'll want to avoid using the TV at maximum volume for balanced sound.

Thanks to the built-in subwoofer, the TV produces a bit of bass. Strangely, the 65-inch model produces a bit more bass than this size does.