Hisense 55U7N Review: A 55-Inch 4K Mini-LED TV Offering Superb Gaming Features and Crisp Picture Quality

Stepping down the hierarchy of Hisense’s TVs, we find this Hisense U7N TV which is lower than the premium U8N. The U8N is so far one of the best TVs we have coming tested. There are lots of similarities in terms of making and features between the U7N and U8N but the former comes at a much lower price. Its biggest drawback revolves around its mini-LED backlight system, which can be very bright but not U8N bright and shows less shadow detail.

Bright, colorful images are jaw-droppingly beautiful, but parts that require darkness appear blurry or very pale. This is still a good and nice price U7N which is an hour-meter for a TV and announces a sheet $ 1,099.99 for its 65 inch model, which was however available for $849.99 most of the time. The beatable model remains U8N ($1,149.99 for 65 inches), which gowned up our Editors’ lithograph sword.

Design: Slim and a Little Bit Metallic

Except for the minimal difference in the screen designs, where the top and two sides of the U7N have no bezels and are surrounded by a metallic frame while the U8N bears a smooth mat screen, their similarities are quite numerous. There is a very thin dual color metal strip that serves as the only bezel at the bottom edge of the screen and a small flat flow in the middle of it holds the infrared unit and far field microphones. The television is supported by two strangely designed metallic legs that are trapezoidal in shape located below the central portion of the screen and are covered with a black plastic housing living up to brushed aluminum finish.

To the left are four HDMI inputs (two 4K144, one eARC), USB, composite video and headphone ports, a serial port for home integration and antenna/cable outlet on the TV’s rear end. A little further in, there is a second USB port, an optical audio output and an Ethernet socket facing the rear side. Power cable is inserted on the right side at the back of the television screen.

The included remote is similar to the other plain plastic rectangular controller that comes bundled with the U8N. Also, it features a broad chrome round navigation pad in the middle area, just above which are buttons for power, input, settings, and voice assistant. At the top of the remote, there are also some other service keys, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, Netflix, Tubi, Youtube, and the custom key, as well as a pinhole mic. Below the navigation pad, there are volume and channel rockers which are accompanied by menu and playback controls.

User Interface: Hands-Free Google TV

Google TV is The Hisense Smart TV operating system used in the U7N TV and it is also standard for HiSense’s premium television products. Out of the box it works with most common streaming video services out there including but not limited to Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Crunchyroll, Disney+, Netflix, Twitch, and Youtube, as well as Google cast for android and chromecast tab streaming. Including this one, Hisense offers the Apple AirPlay competitive feature as well, meaning that you can stream content from iPhone/iPad/Mac.

For hands-free navigation of the U7N with the Google Assistant, a far-field microphone array comes in handy. With it activated, users can make the assistant respond to the command, “Hey Google,” which is then followed by the relevant command. Apart from its primary function as a speaker, Google Assistant undertakes a lot more like content search, provision of weather or sports scores, controlling the TV and other smart home appliances including setting alarms and reminders among others.

The TV can be used for command purposes only without the voice control feature. Just press the microphone button on the remote and hold it down when speaking to the TV.

Image Quality: Very good but please note the contrast concerns

HISENSE U7N IS AN HIGH END 4k FALD 70 inch TV. The panel comes with support for 144Hz panels. It is also compatible with Dolby Vision and other HDR formats like HDR10, HDR10+, and HLG. It connects to the internet using Wi-Fi 6E and has support for regional freezes of 1080p and 4K ATSC 3.0 tuners.

We test the televisions using the Klein K-10A colorimeter, Murideo SIX-G Signal generator and Calman software from Portrait Displays. The Hisense U7N does not come close to the extreme brightness that has been exhibited in the U8N, U9N or 98UX models, though as a mid-range QLED screen it still performs quite well to the standards. Out of the box, with an SDR signal in Theater Day mode, the U7N peaks at 593 nits brightness with a full screen white field and 1030 nits with 18% white field, black level is at 0.02cd/m2.

That would be good for a budget class television in terms of HDR performance, and it becomes even brighter and blacker when the HDR signal is introduced: 823 nits white field, 1528 nits 18% white field and 0.013cd/m2 black level for a 117538:1 contrast.

That is white what almost share brightness outputs with the U8N (2,755 nits HDR, 18% white field) and not so surprising compared to Roku Pro Series (1,621 nits HDR, 18% white field). Of those models none would be able to match the almost perfect blackness of OLED sm tvs such as the LG Evo G4 and several mini LED ones such as Samsung QN90D, in which both the Hisense models are still very impressive.

The previous graphs illustrate the way the U7N reproduces the color levels in Theater Day Mode with an SDR signal and compares them to Rec.709 broadcast standards while showing with an HDR signal in Filmmaker mode and comparing it to DCI-P3 Digital Cinema standards. In both cases, the TV displays white balances and paints a pretty good-colored image. The greens and yellows are just a fraction away from being DCI-P3 compliant and cyans are slightly more yellowish green, but still on the whole very good performance.

The Lion episode of BBC’s Television Dynasty on the other hand looks pretty balanced and natural because of the color accuracy of the U7N. The greens of grass and the yellows of grass, as well as tan lion’s fur, are full all through and neither colorless or unrealistic. The picture quality is high, although some parts with high contrast and silhouettes tend to lose some of their details such as the shadows and the edges. There is some detail overexposure of what should be in the shadows like the outline of a lioness against a sunset background which is not very clear. Trees against a dark cloudy background are somewhat overexposed.

The party scenes in The Great Gatsby also show U7N’s minor inabilities with strong contrast. Among the members of the U7N community, white shirts, lights, and balloons come out strikingly while in the same photographs, black suits can come very close if not very dark grey.

The suits may appear as well-defined blacks in some of homogenous attributes as U7N image viewed this picture, however cadre clarity without deep saturation providers of U7N mini LED backlit do not seem to compete to U8N grade. Be the color tempered and the image sharp despite the very pronounced differences of the blacks and whites and even the colors used, without overdoing it the color such as red would always standout.

Most of the demonstration material on Spears & Munsil Ultra HD benchmark disc was not painful to watch, especially most of geography-related videos. The nature pictures look especially nice, and so do the completely clear ultra-bright blue skies. Bright, warm colors in sunny outdoor scenery look extremely vibrant and are true to nature, however some images taken at dawn and dusk still exhibit slightly blurry or washed out shadow details. Intense hues and bright images on black screens work well, and indeed in those instances the screens are close, if not completely black. The characteristic light bloom is there, more notable than on U8N, around the objects and the background.

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