Hisense 85-Inch Class U8 Series Mini-LED ULED 4K UHD Google Smart TV (85U8N) - QLED, Dolby Vision IQ, Dolby Atmos, Full Array Local Dimming Pro, 144Hz Game Mode Pro, Alexa Compatibility

I cannot believe how much I love this TV. As background, I bought a TLC from Amazon several months ago and hated it. Not only was it having issues working well with Google and Alexa, but I could never get the color right. It always looked off and meh. I returned it. I finally chose this one for Black Friday, and I cannot believe how much I love it. I have never owned a TV this beautiful in my life. The picture is glorious, it’s like being at the movies. Right out of the box, the picture was very good, excellent even. With some tweaks, it’s just perfect. I will say that reading the calibration suggestions online was pretty useless. It’s not like there’s that many settings, and what I found particularly nice was there were often three or four different options in each setting, each of which made the screen look better. (I opted for filmmaker mode, and just adjusted the brightness, color etc from there.) With the TLC I felt like every calibration option was subpar, nothing made the TV look better. I’m not a TV geek, so I can’t tell you about the blackness level. I CAN tell you that the color is outstanding, the clarity is outstanding, the brightness is outstanding, but it does get to be a little bright sometimes. Of all things, captions are too bright on Netflix. And while the TV itself lets you set the caption color to something less obnoxious, Netflix overrules, the TV caption settings, and only lets you do white or yellow, both of which are way too bright. Daylight scenes can be a bit much, light coming in through a window can be a bit too bright because it’s that bright of a TV. But that’s a small point. It’s simply an amazing tv. One word about the viewing angle, as I read a lot of TVs in this price range are terrible when viewed a little bit off to the side. I’m not noticing a decrease in viewing quality much at all, unlike with my TLC. So that’s a relief. I’m also enjoying the Google interface, seems to work fine, and plays well with YouTube TV, Prime video and Netflix. And it was super easy to set up. Following the instructions to put the stand on the TV was living hell, as there are picture-only instructions like IKEA! Just awful. And the TV is pretty heavy, so you’re gonna need somebody’s help putting it on the stand. But again, those are minor issues. This is the most beautiful TV I have ever owned, and the quality of the picture looks like those crazy pictures you see on display room floor, and know it’s never going to look like that at home. With this TV, it does. One final point, I’m really not understanding why this only has four out of five stars here. The professional reviewers love it (Tom’s, Rtings). It makes me wonder if some people are receiving a TV that substandard. Meaning, if with a few tweaks, this thing is not glorious, consider returning it for another one. I simply can’t express sufficiently in words how glorious this TV is. It was worth every penny (I got it for $890).

I’ve had the 55” model TV for about a month now, and I can say that I’m almost entirely impressed. I’d recommend it to anyone who’s seeking a great viewing experience but doesn’t want to pay OLED prices. Before purchasing this TV, I was looking at lower end OLED models, but I wasn’t happy about the low brightness levels and prices. I also was concerned about burn in. This TV struck a great balance point for me. The price point is much lower than OLEDs, and the viewing experience is 90% as good, at least for a normal viewer like me. Pros: Beautiful color range, impressive brightness (advertised 1800 nit for 55”), and contrast that’s almost unbelievably good for a non-OLED panel. High quality Dolby and SDR content both look stunning. The TV pairs seamlessly with my Apple TV. I’m super impressed! Cons: - To get great picture, you’ll have to spend a good amount of time tweaking the image settings. The review on the RTINGS website has a great setup guide. The default picture settings are underwhelming, in my opinion. - Another con is that in some SDR videos (e.g., on YouTube), you can see posterization. Hopefully Hisense will make a software update to help fix this. - The viewing angle is awful. We only watch TV from a straight-on view, but beware that the picture quality drops harshly if viewed from too sharp of an angle. My overall experience rating: 9/10 My “objective” rating given the price and limitations: 8.5/10 Good luck!

So far so good after a few weeks. This is definitely one of the best TVs for the price. Look you can find bad reviews for anything if you keep looking. And no 2 panels are the same so it's a lottery any way you purchase. Hisense has an A+ with the BBB because they have resolved every issue that has been brought to their attention. First ask yourself if you really need a TV with this high level of quality. If you are still using a lot of older media it will actually look worse than expected. This TV is targeted to display 4k HDR content (which will look amazing) Let the TV do its upscaling on the standard settings and non HD content will look good enough. I've wouldn't say it looks horrible like some reviews. In terms of gaming, 120 fps is nice but in reality most games are still best optimized for 60 fps. If anything you may be more "future-proof" but I'll bet most people will be displaying 4k/1440p at 60fps in this current generation of gaming. But yes, this TV will allow some 1440p at 120 fps for those games that will run effectively. PS5 and Series X/S will automatically adjust to gaming settings and HDR. The Nintendo Switch is still old school tech and will require some settings adjustment to "PC/Game" to avoid input lag. Your going to see those dimmed out corners. This is the case will all LCD TVs. This is the absolute limit of their capabilities. If you don't want these dimmed out corners you have to step up to OLED. However they are barely noticeable if you don't obsess about them. This is a personal choice you need to make. Bottom line I'm satisfied. I can pull my OLED switch off the base and say it pretty much compares to the TV screen. But when I walk into a store with a high quality OLED screen I can still say... yea ok, I suppose that still looks better than my QLED. But barely.

Order fulfillment and delivery were a disaster. This 85" TV was supposed to be in-stock (the 75" was advertised as a 2 month delay) so I chose the 85" over the 75". I would bore you if I fully described the hours I wasted on the phone/chat with Amazon Customer Service concerning multiple ordering issues & shipping delays pushing delivery out 3 weeks. Amazon kept "promising" me a new date and kept letting me down with one excuse after another. Might not sound like a big deal but keep in mind this TV is HUGE and HEAVY and you must be home when it is delivered. If you work from home, good for you. If you don't, then you might want to have 3-4 extra vacation days to spend sitting at home twiddling your fingers until you find out the TV won't be delivered . . . again. DELIVERY: Like I said, huge and heavy. The box had all kinds of holes and dents. The back of the TV set was slightly damaged by whatever poked the biggest hole (forklift maybe?). It was cosmetic but disappointing for a new (and expensive) appliance. The delivery team can only offer that it wasn't their fault and left. I signed the delivery "Box Damaged". Also, the box was so filthy that it left black marks all over our new carpet. SETUP: Missing parts! More on that later. There's no way one-person or two weak people could handle. Need LOTS of space to open this box up. It opens like a door and I'll bet it's 15ft long when fully opened. You need to keep the box for the entire return window (30 days) so better plan on some storage space (folds back to approx 12"Wx 7L'x 5'H. Hisense Customer Service: Worse than my treatment from Amazon? Yes. We called their CS because the bolts for the TV stand were missing. After seemingly endless prompts and worthless AI problem solvers, we got a live agent that told us they would not send us any bolts until we gave them the TV serial number at the bottom of the TV. I informed there is NO WAY to see the serial number unless I completely unbox the TV by laying it down flat on the floor. Remember, this TV is HUGE. Best case scenario is they send us bolts (who knows how long that takes) and we either leave this TV in the middle of the floor for that long or try to lift it back up and rebox it? The CS agent basically told us "tough luck". No serial number, no bolts! Those bolts are probably worth pennies. Terrible. I had to go to the hardware store and get my own. The TV itself? Sorry, I hate to give bad reviews when the actual TV is this nice. So far, I love it. I don't need a soundbar and don't understand why anyone would think the interface is slow. I find it very fast and intuitive. Love the remote too. If you read one star reviews (like I do) then I hope I helped by getting one message clear: Ask Best Buy to price match (they will) and bite the bullet on delivery. Amazon was a nightmare.

Simply amazing. I have had Sony and Samsung TVs in the past. I was debating between this TV and Sony's Mini LED which was on Sale for $500 more than this TV. I opted for this TV, mostly because of the nits and the Included Sub Woofer.. Pros: 1- Amazing sound, no need for a sound system or sound bar for majority of content. For HDR movies with action, I use my sound system. The sound quality is not as good as a sound system, however, it is almost as good as most sound bars! 2- The picture quality is unmatched, although it is an 8 bit+FRC panel and not a native 10 bit panel, I cannot tell the difference. True 10 bit would be a good spec to have though. Local dimming is flawless, and fantastic. I have never seen whiter whites and blacker blacks on any monitor or TV, including OLEDs. 3- The ergonomics of the TV and the stand, and packaging. Easy to unbox and install very smart design all around. Cons: 1- The Android TV OS (Hisense's port) on this TV is a little laggy. Probably due to the low end processor that runs it, and nub developers who ported it. It is most obvious by the volume indicator delay. 2- The Ethernet speed is 100Mb, in this day and age it should be at min. 1Gb! Overall, a very good TV, and Hisense is on a path to be big competition for the likes of Sony. Someday Chinese manufacturers will learn not to cut corners (cheap panel, and processor) when they build high end products. The TV at $900 on sale is a good deal, at MSRP of $1499 is a non-starter.

I ordered the 85 inch Hisense U8N TV, with the “free” placement and removal of boxing addition. Both exceeded expectations. On the TV, I had done a lot of research about a new 85 inch TV to replace my 2019 75 inch Samsung. Hisense’s 2024 U8N was pretty much at the top of the list for high-end quality at a reasonable (lower end?) price point. Right out of the box, its brightness and contrast were exceptional, and the built-in speakers were pretty darn good as well. (I did hook it up to an inexpensive 3.1.2 Hisense soundbar that does stuff such as Dolby Atmos, which is really good in its own right.) I followed a number of suggestions for tweaking the picture I had read about on-line (setting “Filmmaker” as the default picture mode—which also disables Hisense’s form of motion smoothing—turning off Active Contrast, Super Resolution, and the like), and the picture is awesome. Perhaps you can still get darker blacks with OLED, but this U8N is pushing it pretty close. The most common negative I hear about mini-LED TVs such as this Hisense is that the picture brightness/contrast drops off significantly as one gets 30 degrees or so to the side of the TV. Our setup has all of us within 15 or 20 degrees, and there is no noticeable degradation in the picture quality. At its price point, at least still in mid 2025, I am confident in thinking that it is hard to beat.

Four years ago, I bought the greatest television ever made by human hands: The Hisense U8G. Last month, it finally started to have backlight stain, so I bought its great grandchild: the U8N. This continues to be the greatest TV ever. It does everything the U8G did, and fixes a ton of issues I had with the old one. Hilariously, despite 3 generations of product development, almost all of the improvements are in software, not hardware. In fact, literally the only hardware benefits on the TV itself are that there's less (not zero) black smearing, and that pizza boxes fit better under it. Oh, and it supports 144Hz instead of 120 but to be honest with you I can't tell the difference between 90 and 120, so I definitely don't care about going from 120 to 144. The most noticeable upgrade is that it no longer has the bug that causes audio cutouts every couple hours when displaying a 4k120Hz signal. YouTube got three notable improvements: speed control works now, as does the voice search button. Also, there was a bug on the old TV that would forcibly enable frame interpolation every time you PIP a video, which happens whenever you open up the menu or description on a YouTube video. That now no longer happens, which is really nice. Casting to the TV got several improvements. First and foremost, they finally added a bluetooth receiver app. This lets you use the TV as a bluetooth speaker, which is the final nail in the coffin for "can my guest play this rando audio from that rando device on my nice speakers". And the implementation is plush: the app gives you artist/song names, play/pause/skip/back, several nice audio visualizers, and a dedicated "screen off" button. They also included a native (Apple branded, even) AirPlay receiver app, which works perfectly out of the box and obsoletes the third party one I was using. It comes with all the trimmings, too. The volume buttons on my Mac control the TV volume directly while streaming to it, and the TV remote controls whatever is playing on my Mac. When streaming audio, you get now-playing info (album art, title, and artist) on the TV, though you can't background it, which is unfortunate. When streaming a video directly, you get a progress bar overlay. The lip sync even works when watching a YouTube video on my laptop but streaming the audio to the TV, very impressive. It's a shame this isn't in the Play store for every Android TV to use, Hisense must have paid Apple a pretty penny for the privilege. Chromecasting is more reliable, as is the connection to bluetooth peripherals such as mice. Steam Link no longer requires disabling GPU compositing for low latency, it just works out of the box. Tragically, despite the display supporting 4k, 144Hz, the poor little video decompressor in the onboard GPU can't handle more than 4k 60fps content, so no high refresh rate game streaming. In more incredible news, the volume overlay is on the right, so it no longer blocks subtitles! Same with the Google Assistant overlay, although the new version puts a completely unnecessary gray filter over the whole screen. Total overkill, just use the space that's actually displaying content, you goofballs. And finally, a perk that applies to me and only me: I like to read books on my TV, using a sideloaded Google Play Books app. They enabled dark mode and a wildly more d-pad navigable layout. Super cushy, I can now browse, download, and read any book in my library with just my TV remote. It's glorious. Speaking of the remote, it's also had a number of improvements. The backlight actually works, and turns on whenever you pick up the remote, without having to hit a button first. The "find my remote" beeper is significantly louder too, and the remote no longer has a rounded bottom, so it doesn't have a tendency to rock back and forth every time you bump the table. That said, it's still not completely perfect. The viewing angles are... bad. The color temperature of the display changes noticeably off-axis. It never inverts, but I wouldn't recommend this for your living room TV, there's about 3 good seats, everyone else gets a noticeably worse image. For me, in my bedroom, there are only 3 seats anyway. Also, the nav ring on the remote is a godawful machined aluminum texture that looks great in sizzle reels but feels like ass in real life. I've covered it in clear nail polish, which solves it nicely.

Replaced my fancy brand 55 inch with this one after that fancy TV's backlight diffuser developed multiple vertical cracks after only 5 years. I wasn't sure about Hisense because I've never really owned anything from them, but the reviews on this TV are very high everywhere you look and I caught it on sale, so I figured I'd give it a shot since it's half the price of some of the fancy brand that had failed me. The picture is amazing, it seems to be built well, and the Google TV interface is very nice. I don't really use because I use Fire Sticks for everything, but I definitely tried it out and it seems really nice compared to the fancy TVs interface. If I was using Google TV for my live channels, or if I had an HD antenna, that Google TV interface would be amazing. I will say, like some others have commented, at a point the colors do wash out a bit when viewing from a high side angle, but no one would ever be watching from the angles I'm talking about. The picture is still clear, you just lose a bit of color. Nothing like you get on the less expensive TVs where you can't see the picture at some point. The picture is truly amazing, and it took very little effort to get it dialed in the way I like it. Even with the sun shining on it in the afternoon, you can watch a dark show and see everything perfectly. I'm sold on Hisense. I'm probably going to buy a couple more of these to replace some TVs I have from the early 2000s, which still work perfectly BTW. I don't buy junk when it comes to TVs, and this one definitely makes me happy.