Hisense 65A6EGTUK (65 Inch) 4K UHD Smart TV, with Dolby Vision HDR, DTS Virtual X, Youtube, Netflix HS214 2.1Ch All- In-One 108W Soundbar with Built-In Subwoofer, Operating System VIDAA

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Hisense appears to be choosing different panels for different screen sizes, with the 50-inch model reviewed here using a VA panel. Thankfully Dolby Vision dominates the main video streaming services and is used by Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV. As you would expect from a modern TV, the slim chassis precludes the use of larger speakers, and the amplification is clearly limited. Easy Connectivity: With HDMI (ARC), the Hisense HS214 can connect to your TV through a single HDMI cable (included), connect wirelessly via Bluetooth to smart device, and control both with one remote.

Select Alexa built-in smart TVs are Push-to-Talk, and require pressing and holding the button on your remote to talk to Alexa, while other smart TVs have hands-free available with Alexa. There’s some good upscaling and processing as well, allowing the A6G to get the best out of lower resolution content, retaining as much detail as possible and producing an artefact-free image. There’s a clean interface that presents content in an easy-to-understand fashion, with simple navigation. There’s some blurring on fast motion like sport, and the TV lacks the necessary frame interpolation features to address this, but it handles 24p content without introducing judder, and movies retain a pleasing film-like quality. There’s a good selection of streaming services, including Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube, Britbox and Rakuten TV.DTS Virtual X: Enjoy an immersive audio without the need for height speakers, the bass perception engages you into the center of a performance. There are a number of sound modes in the settings menu, all of which are fairly self-explanatory, and the TV is certainly capable of handling less demanding content.

The sound bar also comes with three powerful audio modes, Movie, Music, and News, so it would be a perfect companion for your TV. It also has a quad-core processor providing sufficient power to ensure a responsive user experience. The motion handling is also fairly good, aside from the inherent limitations of LCD as a display technology and the 60Hz refresh rate.There’s also a direct LED backlight, and while there’s no form of local dimming, the direct nature of the backlight produces decent screen uniformity. As a result, the overall SDR picture performance is generally impressive, with images that appear well defined and colours that look natural. It delivers impressively accurate performance while watching SDR content and the Dolby Vision images are precisely rendered despite the panel’s inherent weaknesses. For a start, it’s very dim for an HDR TV, with a peak brightness of around 300cd/m² on both a 10% window and full-field in Dynamic mode.

However, it does support ALLM (auto low latency mode), as long as you enable Content Type Auto Detection in the menus. The Hisense A6G includes a pair of downward-firing speakers, each of which has 8W of built-in amplification. Additionally, there’s Freeview Play, which not only means you get all the UK TV catch-up services but ensures they are seamlessly integrated into the TV guide.

For the Gamer we have Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM) which ensures smooth, lag-free and uninterrupted viewing and interaction.

The direct-lit VA panel delivers decent contrast and screen uniformity, despite the lack of local dimming, but its optimal viewing angles are narrow. While this isn’t surprising for a budget TV, it doesn’t necessarily mean the HDR performance will be bad – as long as the tone-mapping is good. The A6G does support DTS Virtual:X, which is designed to give audio greater dimensionality, but the effectiveness of this processing is minimal.The gamma – the intensity of the transition from black to white – is also good, tracking around our target of 2. Hisense has included Dolby Vision support, and it’s with less capable displays like the A6G’s that the format’s dynamic metadata really shows its benefits. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.