Hisense Series X
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It's good for the garbage or even that troublesome – Operating system crap Performance is triple crap Apps only what installed originally, no adding, nothing can be done about it. This is the worst television on the planet. Show details
One of the best things I've bought – After looking at the picture of a lot of sets, this one stood out to me even though I wasn't familiar with the brand. Now after watching it for a few months, I'm still happy. Skin tones, blacks, colour, smooth motion, all awesome. Easy set up. What I didn't expect was the sound quality which is very good for a TV (most TVs sound poor and need a… Read more
sound system). Good features but I must admit I don't utilize all the potential. Struggling to think of a negative. The only one was that (on the advice of the manual), laid it face down on a flat surface and had some issue fitting the feet on installation due to the ultra thin large screen. Needs to be done adjacent to table edge.
A budget 65 inch Oled TV – As a smart TV, the operating systems used by this TV is well below the industry standard, you pretty much have no way to install additional apps on this 'strange' operating system. System update is also non-existent. The operating system can sometimes be very laggy to navigate between each apps well, I therefore just use my TV stick to connect to… Read more
the TV as a work around.
In terms of the screen display, the color reproduction on this TV is noticeably better than any conventional LED/LCD/IPS TVs, that's just the nature of being OLED. It also offers HRD10 which adds a lot of contrast to the color as well. However this oled display struggles with fast moving objects, it can produce some manifests around moving stuff on the screen which is a bit annoying. You need to tweak the display settings to improve your viewing experience. The thin bezel and overall thickness of the screen is amazing, many visitors to my house were amazed by the trendy design of the Oled screen.
Connectivity: I barely use any connectivity options provided by this TV due to its below-par operating system, so all of these connections are done through my TV stick.
There are 4 HDMI ports in the back, so it should be enough for most users already, especially if you connect it to a soundbar via HDMI ARC channel, then you don't really need to access that many HDMI ports anyway, everything can be done through your soundbar. However it's shame that this TV does not have dolby atoms or dolby vision, so you don't need to buy an expensive soundbar with dobly atmos effects to connect to this TV. There are a couple of USB ports available in the rare next to the HDMI ports as well, both ports can provide electricity to mini TV sticks.
Overall it's a reasonably priced OLED TV that produces vibrant colors, most of my complaints go to the screen manifests around fast moving objects.
Worst OS, satisfactory picture quality – Satisfied with its picture quality Response time is nightmare It's OS is crap Very limited apps available. Doesn't have prime video, disney movies and lot of apps you might want in its app store. Show details
I returned it – The good: The picture quality with proper 4k material was pretty good. It is a gorgeous looking TV, the stand looks great and the screen truly is super thin. The bad: The input lag is horrendous. The operating system itself is bare bones and something I was willing to compromise on, but every button click took a second or two to register on… Read more
screen and was infuriating. This TV is useless for gaming. The input lag was there no matter what I did. After hours of researching and fiddling with every possible setting and factor I realised it was simply the TV. Regular cable TV has horrible resolution for some reason. The motion blur/smoothing/judder settings would reset every time it was turned off, and as someone who sees that effect right away it was not fun navigating the menus to 'fix' it (with everything turned off or on low it still looked a bit strange but mostly watchable).
I honestly cant recommend this TV to anyone but those who will watch nothing but streamable content and don't see or mind motion smoothing effects. And those with greater patience than me.
Took it back a week after It arrived.
A very impressive tv – Excellent colour rendering-very vibrant and the blacks are insanely strong. Streaming works seamlessly via wi-fi. Have owned for over a year now and couldn't be happier especially with the 3 year warranty. Refreshing of free to air channels seems a bit slow when scrolling through the program guide. Also the available streaming apps could have… Read more · 1
more content as not all the available apps are there to chose from.
The channel remote could be a bit stronger as its range seems a tad short. Overall this tv offers very good performance and the pricing compared to the bigger brands is more than favourable.
We are more than happy with this OLED tv from Hisense.
Tv great to start but ongoing issues – we purchased this tv in December and it was great for a while but having issues now and seems to be common problem across many hisense smart TVs. The internet is dropping constantly and have to reset tv to get working and that’s painful to do. Both on wifi and cable. Other problems are that can’t connect to things that are not an app on tv. Eg… Read more
Disney tv. If the internet keeps dropping out will be returning and getting another brand. Have downloaded latest firmware, turned off wake to wifi setting, done factor reset, it’s not speed or internet issue from other end, tried cable also. When it happens won’t pick up any networks. It appears to be an ongoing issue and across many models and something hisense has not been able to resolve.
Cheapest OLED on the block didn't disappoint – The good. Picture is exactly what you would expect from actual OLED panel: crisp, colourful, excellent contrast and deep black colours. Number of video settings and optimisations is mind-boggling. Built-in Chromecast is a very nice addition. Youtube and Netflix apps are responsive and pretty serviceable. Oh, and it has two handles at the back… Read more · 1
which allowed me to install this 65-inch beast single-handedly (although in retrospect I wouldn't recommend doing it to anyone, it's hefty!). The mediocre. Audio is pretty mediocre, unfortunately, despite a massive sound bar at the bottom. None of the modes or settings sounds "just right". But, hey, you save so much money on not buying LG or Sony, might as well spend it on good sound setup. The bad. For some bloody reason tv stand is not reclinable and is designed for a single pretty weird vertical angle! Hey, how expensive a hinge is, huh?
Best tv money can buy for under 2k – Went in to upgrade to a uhd and ended up with this bargain. The thickness of the screen was the game changer. It's as thick as my iPad. It's a pretty heavy therefore it's not a cheap tv like some of the other tv's. The volume isn't loud but nothing an affordable sound bar hasn't fixed. Easy to set up to the internet and picked up the foxtel with… Read more
ease. The black colors are so dark and the reds are so vibrant. Remote is a good size with easy to see icons. The only question to ask yourself before buying this tv is are you willing to pay the extra 1K for a 5% better pic via LG or Sony. This is an awesome 65 inch tv the I highly recommend for the price. 9.5/10.
The best TV I have owned – Fantastic picture quality via OLED panel, great sound (didn't bother to connect my Soundbar), good functionality. My first time purchasing Hisense brand - recent TV 's have been Sony 55in 8500G and Samsung Series 7 (when living o/s) - so 3 year warranty helped with decision. While the Sony and Samsung were UHD vs the Hisense OLED, the price… Read more
point for all is similar, and the Hisense wins hands down of picture quality, sound quality and aesthetics (great stand and ultra thin profile). Most known brands' OLED's cost more than double the Hisense.
Only frustrating thing is the preloaded apps on the Smart TV are limited - so if you wanted Foxtel Now, Stan, Prime, Netflix, Spotify and Tidal you'll have to use a streaming device like roku (Telstra TV), Apple TV, etc.
The remote is great - would be greater if it was backlit!
Seriously though, best tv I have owned.
Great Picture – I bought this TV to replace a 10 year old LG LCD which was close to top of the range way back in 2010, The picture quality on the oled is outstanding compared to any other TV I have ever owned and it is perfect for watching movies in a dark room, the panel is very reflective so any light sneaking in through windows or lights will reflect off the… Read more
mirror like surface and spoil your near perfect picture, if your viewing room is bright with lots of windows maybe this TV is not for you, you would need to buy black out curtains for sure. I have an xbox one s connected and blu ray movies look fantastic, we have enabled HDR on the TV and the Xbox does a good job of reproducing, anything high res we have played on this TV looks great including Netflix, Youtube and free to air, normal tv looks, well just normal and not so good... especially just after you have watched a 4k movie. The onscreen menus are easy to use and there are plenty of settings you can play around with, one thing we disabled was the motion smoothing as it was generating some sort of weird fuzziness around some fast moving scenes/objects, it was easy to disable and it is not a problem anymore, it did not happen with all content either so not sure what is actually going on but it was no problem to fix. We have surround sound amplifier connected for the sound but when we want to keep things quiet at night we use the TV's built in speakers or headphones and they work just fine. This TV was close to 5k on release not so long ago, we managed to pick one up for less than half of that in October 2019 and at that price in my opinion it is well worth it, at 5k maybe not so much. Overall everybody here is so far happy with this television, the picture is the main selling point and what other reason is there to buy a TV if not for the picture? a 75" version would be fantastic but 65" is 15" larger than what we had so no real complaints.
Hisense OLED 65PX is just excellent – Great TV at least $1000 or $1500 less than competitors. Maybe even cheaper. Easy to set up and the biggest hassle is getting it out of the box (big) and putting the stand on. You will need two people. OLED is absolutely gorgeous, but of course in Oz most stuff isn't broadcast at anywhere near that resolution. Thus, normal broadcasts can suffer and… Read more · 1
rugby/soccer can reveal minor ghosting if you don't subscribe to Foxtel HD. Zero ghosting on surfing, MotoGP, UFC etc so figure that one out eh? Connects to Wi-Fi super easily and YouTube HD is absolutely terrific. No need for cables running across your home. Remote has buttons for YouTube, Netflix, Stan and other media. Four HDMI slots, two USB slots. Stick a 4K disc into your connected video player, or get Foxtel HD (or the free commercial HD channels) and this is just awesome. Don't worry about the fake "inferior" Chinese spiel - this is jaw dropping for the price. NB: Most of what you will be watching is NOT broadcast in HD or anything close to 4K, so for normal viewing any of the UHD sets will suffice (much cheaper). OLED is however vastly superior for anything in HD. Super impressed with the Hisense 65PX and bought it for a great price. Highly recommended.
Great Picture - can take a bit of setting up UPDATE 2yrs on - DO NOT BUY THIS THING – Initial setup is very simple. However, out of the box, digital 1080p and better content looks amazing but broadcast (free to air TV) at 576i (several channels) was really pixelated especially where there was movement on the screen. Ended up fixing this by turning OFF motion smoothing. Also had a common problem after about 3 days of owning the… Read more
TV where it dropped my wi-fi connection and I couldn't reconnect. I found Hisense tech support pretty easy to get onto and they talked me through accessing a hidden menu to turn off fast-boot that was enabled by default out of the box. This fixed the problem.
What I love about this TV: - simple to attach solid stand - very thin bezel - blacks are so... BLACK - it is OLED after all - colours are amazing - stuck with standard after trying a few modes - very responsive - has a netflix and youtube button right on the remote - PLEX was one of the pre-installed apps (I use it as my media server so that was important to me)
What could be better: - selection of apps is a little lacking, no iVIEW, no 9NOW, no 10PLUS apps, does have SBS on Demand though (doesn't really impact me but would be nice to have, not even available in the app store) - easier selection of channels and removing duplications (solved using a favourites list but would prefer to be able to just delete channels
That's about it. Really nice TV, big upgrade over my 9yr old Sony Bravia. Would definitely buy again. Purchased from JB Hi-Fi was recommended in lieu of LG OLED I was looking at. Very happy with the choice.
UPDATE: 4 months on: ok so I've been using this TV a while now and while I'm still really happy with it there are a few things that are worth mentioning.
1. If you want to access services like 9now and 10play forget it. I haven't found a way yet. It could be that's very unintuitive but still possible but I haven't found a way the apps are not in the app store at all. You can access ABC IVEW but you do that through the EPG - weird.
2. Netflix app works great but control is incredibly laggy. The buttons on the remote are very clicky so you know for sure that you've pressed them. It's just often not mirrored on the screen. On average I would say I press the buttons twice as much as I should have to as every second one fails to register. It's a processor thing I believe as it seems to be catching up. Also, have had a few instances where netflix just doesn't work and 5 minutes later it'll be fine. Hard to say definitively it's the TV but when it's working on a tablet and a PC and just not the TV I think it's the TV.
Other than that very happy. Could I have spent twice as much and not had these problems, probably. Do I wish I did that? Not at this point.
UPDATE: 12 Months On: would not buy again as a primary TV. Picture still great. Seems to take longer than it used to, to boot up. Netflix app incredibly sensitive, you have to wait until the TV comes on, the sound starts and the notification of the channel goes off before you launch Netflix or it doesn't connect properly.
At this point I'd probably adjust the rating down to like 3 stars, a pass mark.
Once you get into it the responsiveness of Netflix to the remote is worse than it used to be. Tried changing batteries no different. Sometimes I've had to press one of the buttons 20 times just to get it to select the next show.
UPDATE 2yrs ON: I will never buy another Hisense TV. What started as annoying has become almost a broken feature. Response for apps especially netflix has gotten progressively worse to the point where sometimes I just turn it off. It's not the remote have replaced batteries multiple times.
Problem got worse after I upgraded my netflix subscription to higher definition content.
It appears the TV simply doesn't have a good enough processor to process the images and also inputs so when you fast forward or rewind it often gets stuck and you can't stop it where you'd actually want to.
Just shelled out $3k to replace this thing with a new sony.... wish I hadn't let the JB sales person talk me into a hisense in the first place, this is the shortest amount of time I've ever owned a TV.
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