Hisense U7N [U7, U75N] TV Review

The Hisense U7N has a nice overall design. It has thin bezels on the sides and top, with a slightly thicker bottom bezel. Unlike 2023's Hisense U7K, the TV uses a central stand instead of two feet.

The TV comes with a plastic center-mounted stand that doesn't require a large table to place the TV on. The stand lifts the TV about 3.23 inches, so most soundbars fit underneath without blocking the screen. The stand does stick out from the front quite a bit, so you do need enough table space to fit a soundbar in front of it.

Footprint of the 65-inch stand: 21.2" x 11.57".

The back is made of plastic and looks identical to last year's Hisense U7K. Most of the inputs are side-facing, but they're close enough to the edge of the TV that they're 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 there are clips on the TV's stand to help with cable management.

The TV has good build quality. Although it's made entirely of plastic, it's sturdy enough and well-built overall. The TV wobbles a bit on the plastic center-mounted stand, but it doesn't cause any issues and provides good stability. There are no glaring issues with the TV's design, but our unit did have some debris behind the panel, although it's not noticeable from a normal viewing distance.

The Hisense U7N has amazing contrast. The TV's native contrast ratio is decent, but with local dimming on 'High,' its contrast is superb. Its effective local dimming feature provides very deep blacks in a dark room, and they mostly stay deep when highlights are also on screen.

The TV has only decent blooming performance. Unfortunately, there's visible blooming around bright highlights or text when they're against a black background, making blacks look less deep.

The TV has good overall lighting zone transitions, but it struggles with very fast-moving content. There's noticeable haloing, and the leading edge of bright, quick-moving objects is visibly dimmer.

There's no noticeable difference in dark scene performance when the TV is in PC/Game Mode.

The Hisense U7N has excellent HDR brightness, so highlights really stand out during darker scenes. Combined with its amazing contrast, this TV provides an impactful HDR viewing experience.

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

Results with Dynamic Tone Mapping set to 'On':

• Hallway Lights: 611 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 544 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 431 cd/m²

The Hisense U7N is slightly brighter in PC/Game Mode, but it's not as accurate.

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

Results with Dynamic Tone Mapping set to 'On':

• Hallway Lights: 591 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 471 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 411 cd/m²

The TV has outstanding PQ EOTF tracking. Blacks are slightly too bright, and some shadows and midtones are slightly too dark, but the TV closely follows the curve until it reaches its peak brightness. There's a gradual roll-off near the TV's peak brightness, which helps to preserve detail in very bright specular highlights with content mastered at 4000 nits. The TV is bright enough to properly display highlights in content mastered at 600 and 1000 nits, so the roll-off isn't necessary with those nit levels.

The Hisense U7N has amazing SDR brightness, and it overcomes glare in very bright 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 U7N has an impressive HDR color gamut. It has fantastic coverage of the commonly used DCI-P3 color space, with incredible color accuracy. The TV has good coverage of the wider Rec. 2020 color space, but highly saturated colors are mostly undersaturated and off the mark.

The TV has great color volume. Dark saturated colors are displayed well due to the TV's amazing contrast. The TV displays a wide range of colors at high luminance levels, but it does struggle a bit with displaying very bright and saturated magentas and reds.

The Hisense U7N has unremarkable pre-calibration SDR accuracy. Its white balance is poor, with blues very overrepresented in all shades of gray and greens underrepresented in most grays. The color temperature is okay, but it's noticeably cooler than our target of 6500K. Gamma is close to our target of 2.2, but dark scenes are too bright, and most other scenes are too dark. Its color accuracy is good, but there are inaccuracies with whites, lighter yellows, and lighter cyans.

The TV has fantastic SDR accuracy after calibration, and the TV is easy to calibrate. Any issues with white balance are gone, and the color temperature and gamma are essentially perfect. Color accuracy is outstanding, with only minor inaccuracies in saturated colors that aren't noticeable to most people.

You can see our full calibration settings here.

The TV has good gray uniformity, but there's some dirty screen effect towards the center of the screen and vignetting in the corners.

The TV has fantastic black uniformity. With local dimming disabled, blacks are a bit cloudy and blueish. With local dimming enabled, blacks are deep and uniform across the screen, but there's some blooming around bright objects on a dark background.

The Hisense U7N has an inadequate viewing angle, so it's not suitable for a wide seating arrangement. As you move off-center, there's significant gamma shifting, color shifting, and brightness loss, and colors look increasingly washed out as you move further away to the sides.

The TV has amazing reflection handling. Its semi-gloss screen finish significantly reduces the intensity of indirect reflections and does an excellent job of reducing the intensity of direct reflections.

The TV has satisfactory HDR gradient handling. There's noticeable banding in greens and darker grays, but all other colors have minimal banding.

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 U7N 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 uses a BGR (Blue-Green-Red) subpixel layout instead of the traditional RGB layout. For video or gaming content, this doesn't cause any issues, but for PC monitor use, it can be a problem as it impacts the text clarity, although not everyone will notice this.

The Hisense U7N has an excellent response time for minimal blur behind fast-moving objects, but it's slower when coming out of dark states, so there's some black smearing in dark scene transitions.

Unfortunately, like the Hisense U7K, 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 distracting. There are no rapid changes in behavior when running at a fixed refresh rate.

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 Hisense U7N supports backlight strobing, 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 can only insert 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. The TV really struggles in faster-moving scenes, and there are distracting artifacts, haloing, and a screen-tearing effect.

Due to the TV's quick response time, there's some noticeable 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. Unfortunately, it doesn't remove 24p judder from 60Hz sources like most cable TV boxes and older streaming devices that lack a Match Frame Rate feature, although you can use the 'Motion Enhancement' with 'Judder Reduction: 1' to remove judder from 60Hz sources without introducing noticeable interpolation or artifacts.

The Hisense U7N supports all three VRR formats, so it has great compatibility regardless of the source. Unfortunately, with 1080p @ 240Hz and VRR enabled, the TV is stuck at 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 also has a response time issue with VRR enabled, which you can read about here.

This TV has incredibly 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.

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 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 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.

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 it has an ATSC 3.0 tuner, so you can watch 4k content over-the-air.

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 TV has a mediocre frequency response. Thanks to the built-in subwoofer, the TV produces a bit of bass, but it's still not enough for you to feel impactful bass. Dialogue is clear and easy to understand at moderate volume levels, but the sound becomes unbalanced near and at its maximum volume. This is unfortunate since the speakers don't get very loud.

The TV's distortion performance is good. There isn't much audible distortion at moderate volume levels, but it worsens as you raise the volume, although it's still not too bad.

The Hisense U7 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 has a fantastic selection of apps, so finding your favorite content is easy. You can also cast content from your phone onto the TV or play videos directly from a USB stick.

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 you can use 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