The Hisense U7H is a lower mid-range 4k TV released in 2022. It's available in four sizes, ranging from 55" to 85", so you can choose the best size for your needs. It replaces the Hisense U7G, but Hisense has made only minor changes. It's a step up from the entry-level Hisense U6/U6H and includes HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, but it doesn't feature the Mini LED backlight found on the higher-end Hisense U8/U8H. It comes with the user-friendly Google TV 11 interface, an upgraded version of the Android TV interface found on the 2021 Hisense lineup. It has a great selection of gaming features, including HDMI 2.1 bandwidth on two of its HDMI ports and FreeSync variable refresh rate support. In Canada, this TV is the U78H, which performs the same. There are international variants that use the same or similar names, but they perform differently. It's been replaced in 2023 by the Hisense U7K.
Our Verdict
The Hisense U7H is great for mixed usage. It's best for watching movies in SDR or HDR in a dark room thanks to its excellent contrast ratio and good local dimming feature. It's also good for watching shows or sports in a bright room, as it can easily overcome glare thanks to its high SDR peak brightness and good reflection handling, but it's limited a bit by its sub-par viewing angle. It delivers a very good gaming experience, with low input lag and some great gaming features. Sadly, it has a slow response time, so there's noticeable blur with fast-moving objects on screen, and it can't display 4k @ 120Hz signals properly, which also limits its usefulness as a PC monitor.
- Excellent contrast results in deep blacks in a dark room.
- Good reflection handling.
- Image degrades when viewed from the side.
The Hisense U7H is a good TV for watching shows in a bright room. It has excellent peak brightness in SDR and good reflection handling, so glare isn't an issue even in a bright room. The built-in Google TV smart platform has a great selection of streaming apps, and with built-in hands-free voice control, you can quickly find your favorite shows. Unfortunately, it has a sub-par viewing angle, and the image degrades if you're watching it from an angle, so it's not a good choice if you have a wide seating arrangement or if you like to move around with the TV on.
- Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
- Good reflection handling.
- Low-resolution content is upscaled without any issues.
- Image degrades when viewed from the side.
The Hisense U7H is a good TV for watching sports in a bright room. It has excellent peak brightness and good reflection handling, so glare isn't an issue in a bright room. It also has decent gray uniformity with just a bit of dirty screen effect in the center. Unfortunately, due to its sub-par viewing angle, anyone sitting to the side of the screen will see a washed-out image, so it's a bad choice for watching the big game with a large group of friends.
- Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
- Good reflection handling.
- Low-resolution content is upscaled without any issues.
- Image degrades when viewed from the side.
- Slow response time.
The Hisense U7H delivers a great gaming experience. It has incredibly low input lag for a responsive gaming experience. Xbox Series X and PS5 gamers will appreciate its variable refresh rate support and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth. There are a few issues, though. It supports 4k @ 120Hz gaming but can't display it properly, and the image looks a bit blurry. It also has a slow response time, so there's noticeable ghosting behind fast-moving objects.
- Excellent contrast results in deep blacks in a dark room.
- Excellent peak brightness in SDR.
- Incredibly low input lag for a responsive gaming experience.
- Great selection of gaming features.
- 4k @ 120Hz signals aren't displayed properly.
- Slow response time.
The Hisense U7H is a great TV for watching movies in a dark room. It has excellent contrast, an effective local dimming feature, and good peak brightness in HDR, so bright highlights stand out well. It respects the content creator's intent, as it has good tone mapping, and it tracks the PQ EOTF well, up to a smooth roll-off near the TV's peak brightness. It also has an impressive color gamut in HDR and great color volume, so HDR movies look vibrant and lifelike.
- Excellent contrast results in deep blacks in a dark room.
- Impressive wide color gamut and great color volume.
- HDR10+ and Dolby Vision support.
The Hisense U7H is very good for gaming in HDR. It delivers a responsive gaming experience thanks to its incredibly low input lag, and there's very little tearing thanks to its VRR support. HDR looks great due to its excellent contrast ratio, effective local dimming feature, and good peak brightness in HDR, so bright highlights stand out well. It also has great color volume and impressive color gamut, with nearly full coverage of the DCI-P3 color space, so games are vibrant and visually impressive. The TV supports 4k @ 120Hz gaming, but unfortunately, it can't display it properly, and the image looks a bit blurry.
- Excellent contrast results in deep blacks in a dark room.
- Incredibly low input lag for a responsive gaming experience.
- Impressive wide color gamut and great color volume.
- Great selection of gaming features.
- 4k @ 120Hz signals aren't displayed properly.
- Slow response time.
The Hisense U7H is a very good TV for use as a PC monitor. It has incredibly low input lag for a responsive desktop experience, with very little delay between your actions with your mouse and the cursor moving on-screen. Visibility is good in a bright room thanks to its excellent SDR peak brightness and good reflection handling, so you don't have to worry about glare. It has HDMI 2.1 bandwidth for 4k @ 120Hz gaming, but unfortunately, it can't display it properly, and text looks a bit fuzzy. It also has a sub-par viewing angle, so it's not a good choice for sitting up close, as the sides of the screen appear non-uniform.
- Good reflection handling.
- Incredibly low input lag for a responsive gaming experience.
- Image degrades when viewed from the side.
- 4k @ 120Hz signals aren't displayed properly.
- Slow response time.
Changelog
- Updated Apr 17, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
- Updated Feb 11, 2025: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
- Updated Nov 20, 2024: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
- Updated Sep 11, 2024: We uploaded the latest brightness measurements and uniformity photos for the Accelerated Longevity Test.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
We tested the 65-inch Hisense U7H, and the results are also valid for the 55-inch, 75-inch, and 85-inch models. In Canada, it's known as the Hisense U78H, and it performs the same. There's a variant sold at club retailers like Costco, known as the U75H. It's the same TV, but it has a black bezel and comes with an extended warranty. The international models that carry the same model name are completely different TVs, as they use completely different panels and smart platforms, so these results aren't valid for those models.
| Size | US Model | Costco Model | Local Dimming Zones | Panel Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 55" | 55U7H | 55U75H | 72 | VA |
| 65" | 65U7H | 65U75H | 90 | VA |
| 75" | 75U7H | 75U75H | 120 | VA |
| 85" | 85U7H | - | 128 | VA |
The unit we tested was manufactured in June 2022, and you can see the label here.
Compared To Other TVs
The Hisense U7H performs well for the price, but due to a few issues, better choices are available, like its successor, the Hisense U7K, or the LG QNED85. It has limited processing capabilities compared to the more expensive competitors. There are still some bugs and issues with it, and 4k @ 120Hz playback doesn't work properly.
See also our recommendations for the best 65-inch TVs, the best 4k TVs, and the best TVs for bright rooms.
The Hisense U7K is a noticeable improvement from the Hisense U7H. The U7K has better contrast with a better local dimming feature, so it looks better in dark rooms. While the U7K is about as bright as the older model, it has much better reflection handling and looks better in bright rooms. Its pre-calibration color accuracy is also vastly better than the U7H. The U7K also has a much better response time and much improved low-quality content smoothing. It's just a better TV all-around.
The Hisense U8/U8H is significantly better than the Hisense U7H. The U8H delivers much better picture quality, as it has a better local dimming feature with a Mini LED backlight. The U8H also delivers a better gaming experience, as it has a significantly faster panel with much less ghosting behind fast-moving objects. Finally, the U8H looks better in a bright room as it has much better reflection handling and gets much brighter in SDR, meaning it can handle more glare.
The Hisense U7H and TCL Q7/Q750G QLED are very similar TVs, each with their own strengths; the TCL is very slightly better overall, although it has more quirks than the Hisense. They are roughly equal for both HDR and SDR brightness, although the TCL has better contrast and black uniformity, helped by a better local dimming feature. However, the Hisense is a bit more colorful with better color volume. They're both similarly average in processing, although the TCL is better at low-quality content smoothing. While the TCL has an inconsistent response time that is particularly annoying to gamers but is otherwise great for most content, the Hisense's response time is just consistently okay all the time.
The Hisense U7H is slightly better than the Hisense U6/U6H. The U7H delivers slightly better picture quality, with a better local dimming feature and slightly better contrast. The U7H also gets brighter, so it can handle a bit more glare if you're in a bright room. Finally, the U7H supports more advanced gaming features and delivers a better gaming experience, as it has a 120Hz panel and HDMI 2.1 bandwidth, meaning it can take full advantage of the Xbox Series S|X or PS5.
Test Results
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's no noticeable difference with dark scenes when the TV is set to Game Mode.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Hisense U7 automatically removes judder from any source, ensuring a smooth movie-watching experience.
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.
The Hisense U7 has incredibly low input lag, so your actions in-game or on the desktop feel responsive and fluid.
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'.
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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately, there's no direct connection for composite sources. Instead, it requires an external breakout adapter, which is no longer included in the box.
The Hisense U7H supports eARC and can pass advanced DTS and Dolby formats from a connected source to your soundbar or sound system.
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.
The Hisense U7H has very good distortion performance. There's very little harmonic distortion, even at high volume levels.
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.
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.
The Google Play Store has a ton of apps you can download.
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.
