Hisense CanvasTV QLED 2024 TV Review

Unfortunately, this TV has inadequate peak brightness in HDR. HDR content looks flat and dull overall, as the unit isn't bright enough to bring out specular highlights, and with the lack of a local dimming feature, bright spots don't pop at all.

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

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

If you prefer a brighter but less accurate image, here are the results with Dynamic Tone Mapping set to 'On':

• Hallway Lights: 341 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 318 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 203 cd/m²

Switching to PC/Game Mode doesn't cause a noticeable decrease in overall peak brightness.

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

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

If you prefer a brighter but less accurate image, here are the results with Dynamic Tone Mapping set to 'On':

• Hallway Lights: 339 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 311 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 204 cd/m²

The Hisense Canvas TV has adequate SDR brightness and is bright enough for a well-lit room.

These measurements are after calibration with the following settings:

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

The Hisense Canvas TV has a poor contrast ratio, mostly due to its lack of local dimming. It does have an okay native contrast ratio, but without local dimming, blacks are always raised. If you're looking for a similar 'Art' TV with slightly better contrast, consider the TCL NXTFRAME QLED instead.

This TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so the unit can't brighten highlights without impacting the rest of the image. This means that blacks are always raised, and dark scenes end up looking washed out.

This TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so it can't adjust the backlight of individual zones to brighten up highlights without impacting the rest of the image. This means that there are no distracting flicker or brightness changes as bright highlights move between zones, as the TV doesn't have any.

Switching to Game Mode doesn't result in any noticeable difference in dark scene performance.

The TV's black uniformity is alright, but there's no local dimming feature, so the entire screen is blueish and cloudy in darker scenes.

The Hisense Canvas has okay SDR color volume. Its coverage of the wide BT.2020 color space is inadequate, and it really struggles with displaying most colors outside of some purples and blues. Its coverage of the narrower DCI-P3 color space is decent, but here, it particularly struggles with fully displaying greens, yellows, and lighter reds.

The Hisense S7N's color volume is okay. It displays a satisfactory range of colors at many luminance levels, but it struggles with some dark saturated colors due to its lack of local dimming and satisfactory but unexceptional native contrast. It also struggles with displaying colors at high luminance levels due to its low HDR peak brightness.

This TV's pre-calibration accuracy is terrible. It's way too cold even on its warmest setting, and blues are extremely overrepresented in almost all shades of gray. Color accuracy fares slightly better but is still poor overall, with all colors having noticeable color mapping issues, more so for cyans and whites. Gamma is pretty close to our target of 2.2, but very dark and very bright scenes are too bright.

The TV has amazing accuracy after calibration. It's not easy to calibrate, however, partly due to how inaccurate it is to start and also due to some settings being too aggressive while others, like adjusting reds, seem to have almost no effect. Still, after some time, the TV does end up looking very good, with its color temperature now close to the 6,500K target, color accuracy now only showing minor color mapping issues, and blues being only somewhat overrepresented in whites. Gamma is now even closer to our 2.2 target, with only brighter scenes still being too bright.

You can see our full calibration settings.

The Hisense S7 has disappointing pre-calibration accuracy in HDR, mostly due to its color temperature, which is extremely cold. This can also be seen in how overrepresented blues are in all shades of gray, with reds being slightly underrepresented in brighter shades. As for color accuracy, it's acceptable, although all colors are noticeably off-target.

The TV's accuracy is very good after calibration. The color temperature is vastly improved, as it's now very close to our 6,500K target. White balance is much better, although blues are still overrepresented in mid and brighter grays, while reds are still slightly underrepresented in brighter shades. Unfortunately, there is only a small improvement in the TV's color accuracy, as all colors are now closer to target, but not significantly so.

The Hisense Canvas TV has good PQ EOTF tracking. Blacks and near-blacks are raised, while shadows, mid-tones, and highlights are displayed a bit dimmer than intended, but overall, it's solid. There's a gradual roll-off near the TV's peak brightness to retain detail in highlights in all mastered content.

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

The Hisense Canvas TV does a good job at upscaling low-resolution content like DVDs or lower-resolution streams. Details are clear enough, but finer details are 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 impressive HDR gradient handling. There's noticeable banding in darker blues, but all other colors have minimal or no banding at all.

This TV has low input lag when set to PC/Game Mode, especially at 120Hz, which ensures a very responsive gaming experience with very little delay between your actions with your controller or mouse and the action on-screen. The TV's input lag is much higher at 60Hz; while still good, you'll definitely feel it if you're sensitive to it. In 1080p @ 240Hz, the input lag is 4 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, as with it enabled, there is obvious frame skipping at refresh rates around 144Hz.

The Hisense Canvas TV supports all three VRR formats, so it's highly compatible 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, desaturated colors, and chroma 4:4:4 isn't displayed properly. With VRR disabled, 1080p @ 240Hz works without issues.

The TV's CAD at its maximum refresh rate is acceptable. This model does struggle when going from very dark shades to very bright ones and vice versa, but it performs especially well in content that's consistently bright.

The TV's CAD at 120Hz is acceptable and definitely faster than at its maximum refresh rate. It still struggles most when going from very bright shades to very dark ones. Overall, there's definitely some blur in most color transitions.

The TV's CAD at 60Hz is poor. Here, all transitions outside of those between bright shades are very slow, leading to noticeable motion blur in most content.

The Hisense Canvas TV 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 Canvas TV 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 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 Hisense S7 automatically removes judder from all sources when watching movies or shows that are in 24p, even if they're in a 60Hz signal, as long as you have the 'Motion Enhancement' settings set to 'Film.'

The Hisense Canvas TV has an alright response time. It performs best in transitions between similar color shades but really stumbles when transitioning from brighter shades to darker ones and vice versa. This leads to noticeable motion blur in a wide variety of content.

The TV uses pulse width modulation (PWM) to dim its backlight, which introduces flicker that can bother people who are sensitive to it. That said, this TV flickers at a blistering 19000Hz in all picture modes, which is too fast to be noticed by the human eye.

This TV doesn't have an optional backlight strobing feature, also known as BFI.

The Hisense Canvas TV has an optional motion interpolation feature to improve the clarity of motion. It works a bit better than it usually does on most models due to the Hisense dropping frames instead of introducing artifacts. That technique works well in slower scenes, and while it struggles with smoothing out faster scenes, it still results in better results than on many other budget TVs.

The Hisense Canvas handles direct reflections well. Due to its matte screen finish, reflections from sources of light directly facing the screen are barely visible, so you don't have obvious reflections superimposed over your content. Furthermore, the intensity of the brightness of reflections is greatly reduced, so it performs very well in a bright room.

The Hisense Canvas has disappointing black levels in a well-lit room. Blacks become elevated in a bright room, so the image looks washed out. The TV has a limited contrast ratio to begin with, so you only get deep blacks in purely dark scenes when viewed in a dark room. In a bright room, blacks look gray, even in dark scenes.

This TV's overall reflection handling is sub-par, especially when it comes to its handling of ambient light sources. The resulting glare is smudged across the screen, which noticeably impacts the TV's perceived contrast.

The Hisense Canvas has sub-par color saturation in a bright room. Its total color volume is similar in a bright room as it is in a dark one, but low-luminance colors do become noticeably washed out as light is added to your room. The brightness of your room doesn't impact high-luminance colors much at all, but these colors are a bit washed out even in a dark room.

Unfortunately, this TV has barely passable off-angle viewing. The image rapidly degrades as you move off-center, as colors fade quickly and brightness decreases, causing the image to appear washed out. This makes it a poor choice for a wide seating arrangement.

The Hisense Canvas TV has mediocre gray uniformity. The sides of the screen are darker than the middle, and there's some noticeable dirty screen effect towards the middle of the screen. Its uniformity is better on a very dark or near-black screen, but there's some light clouding throughout, and the sides are a bit brighter than the center.

The TV uses a BGR (Blue-Green-Red) subpixel layout instead of the traditional RGB layout. This doesn't cause any issues for video or gaming content, but it can be a problem for PC monitor use as it impacts the text clarity, although not everyone will notice this.

The TV uses a KSF phosphor coating to produce red light, with high peaks on reds and blues. This model does have good separation between colors, giving it solid color purity and a wide color gamut.

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

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 S7 is designed to look more like a framed piece of art than a traditional TV. It has a teak-colored frame by default, but you can buy other colors from Hisense.

The Hisense S7 uses two feet that support the TV well. They lift the model about 2.8 inches from the table, so most soundbars fit below the screen, although it'll be a tight fit with chunkier soundbars. It also comes with Hisense's UltraSlim Wall Mount if you prefer to mount the TV to the wall.

The footprint of the 65-inch stand is 44.8" x 14.9".

The back of the TV is plain and made entirely of plastic. Most of the inputs are side-facing and aren't too hard to access when the model is mounted flush against the wall. The TV has clips on its back to help with cable management, although the cables then dangle directly from the back as there isn't any way to hide them.

The TV has excellent build quality. It's made entirely of plastic, and its frame is made of aluminum, but made to look like wood. The frame blocks part of the first row of pixels, but it's not something you'll notice from a normal viewing distance. When using the stand, there's some wobble from front to back when the TV is pushed, but this doesn't cause any issues. It's well-built overall, and there are no issues with quality control.

The Hisense Canvas TV 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, backlit remote. 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 TV's settings using the voice controls.

There's a single button on the bottom center of the TV that you can use to switch inputs and power the unit on/off.

• Manuals
• Remote
• Power cable
• Wall-mount equipment (brackets, screws, and anchors)
• Frame segments, with accessories

In its default 'Art Mode,' the TV consumes about 96 watts of power. You can decrease or increase the model's brightness while in 'Art Mode,' which will impact its power consumption.

The Hisense Canvas TV has an okay frequency response. Like most models, the bass is almost non-existent, and it sounds noticeably more unbalanced at max volume than at moderate levels. The TV gets quite loud, so you could go without a soundbar if you're mostly interested in volume over sound quality.