Hisense 65” Class U6 Sequence ULED 4K UHD Good Fireplace TV (65U6HF, 2024) – QLED, Full Array Native Dimming, 600-Nit, Dolby Imaginative and prescient HDR 10+, HDMI 2.1, MEMC, 240 Movement Charge with VRR, Alexa Compatibility

I would not hesitate to buy the brand again when considering price vs quality.
I wanted an 86″ Hisense with the same number of mini-LED dimming zones but as I had not saw a mini-LED in person before and none were available locally to see I decided to try out a 75″ mini-LED of the same model as the price was more than 50% less.I’m glad I did. At 75″ there is plenty of room for a set of stereo speakers stretched along the bottom of the TV and the TV sounds good, not great, I plan to remedy that later with a Hisense Dolby 5.2 Speaker setup.The screen looks great, but it can’t rescue 360-resolutions at all, and only manages to rescue 480-resolutions if the source material is impeccable. As there is so much old 480i/480p source material that will never be duplicated with modern shows it was a bit of relief to see Pink Panther and other old cartoon look so good on that big of a screen. At times the higher claimed resolutions like 720p and 1080p are dubious if they really are at the claimed resolution but that’s on the streaming provider (YouTube, TUBI, and too many more to shake a stick at). So far, all 2160p resolution shows have looked quite often like you are looking through a glass window. It’s almost odd.There are some things when you see shows on such a big clear screen that expose some of the old tricks of professional film making that you never noticed on a 10″ to 27″ CRT screens of the 60s and 70s. Examples are some of the factory rooms in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory are kind of amateur looking, but the movie is still great. Likewise, the some of the animations in the Pink Panther are looking like frames get skipped, but they aren’t, it’s the nature of digitizing light and then showing on the big TV screen. Even worse are some panning scenes with only a static background. Since those are all cartoons it’s not something that really distracts too badly from the entertainment of the cartoons themselves.I don’t really like the FireOS and the streaming apps in them. Only TUBI, Prime, and FreeVee share what I’ve viewed with the FireOS so that the top level of the FireOS can organize what I’m interested in viewing. I skip between many streaming apps. I also would like it if I could log into my Amazon.com account on my main computer in a browser and attach to a facsimile of my FireTV account and create genres of all the shows I might want to watch someday at the top FireOS level, e.g., Cartoons or Cartoons by studio with subcategories of decades, TV series with subcategories of decades, comedy, detective, police, fire, medical, soap opera, and you get the ideal, not that I’d ever have the time to watch all that, it’s just that people naturally like to engage in their instinct to organize in a way they find helpful.More: I have a FireTV Box on HDMI 1 and I can’t get a 4K signal from it on my Hisense TV and, eg, the TUBI app lets me upgrade the resolution of shows on the Hisense TV but not on the latest generation FireTV Box. I’m not sure why, maybe I need to specifically purchase a 4K or 8K HDMI 2.1 cable to plug that FireTV Box into the Hisense TV HDMI port? Another think I don’t like it I can’t match the color temperature and brightness of the FireTV Box to be the same as the Hisense FireTV, which looks absolutely stupendous.More: When I am using the remote to control the FireTV Box, and not the Hisense FireTV, the remote and FireTV Box seem to struggle at times with the remote commands, ignoring them and then suddenly playing the whole queue of ignored remote commands very quickly. Frustrating, but it doesn’t always happen. The Hisense FireTV itself doesn’t display this behavior. I programmed my FireTV Pro Remote to control both and that was a hassle I had to repeat, ultimately ignoring that the FireTV Box failed to find the mute signal to the Hisense FireTV. It did find the on/off signal to the Hisense FireTV though. All of these bugs seem to be with the FireTVBox and not the Hisense FireTV itself. FireOS, and every other GUI OS I’ve ever used are somewhat slow, although usable 99% of the time.Finally, the main reason I bought this TV is because I am working on writing video games, and I wanted a testing setup where I was truly relaxed and could pay attention to how the game looks on a very big screen and whether I was enjoying playing the game. For this reason, even if I never watched shows on TV, this TV was worth the price.So overall, I’ve very happy with this television. It’s almost like being at a cinema at times. I like the way it brings a lot of the wow back to shows like the 1960s Speed Racer that I’ve not seen in over 50 years, so much so that in 2 or 3 years I will probably buy another Hisense TV but with 1 to 1 direct lit mini-LED pixel dimming zones and at 100″ diagonal. I’d set it on the floor as at my last real cinema visit in March 2023, I finally caught covid-19 despite all those covid-19 vaccines. That should tell you I’m pleased with the brand and quality of this TV.