Even before the IFA, the device, which we tested here, caused a sensation. While all other TV manufacturers announced a classy 65-inch display in Ultra HD (the fourfold resolution of Full HD), whose prices were announced between 5,000 and 7,000 euros, the Chinese manufacturer Hisense presented 4K TVs starting at 2,000 euros, Inches were also somewhat smaller. So everything was not so bad.
What is the avarice?
Last autumn, the market was first unified, with Samsung and Sony already officially lowering their prices, while the other vendors gave it to the dealer's skill. This meant that the price regions that Hisense had envisaged had been reached: 3,000 euros for a 58- and 5,000 euros for a 65-inch.
Features
If you now go to the Internet and look for the devices from Hisense, but will be a savage shock. For example, the LTDN58XT880 is already priced at 1,500 euros, its 65-inch brother for less than 3,000 euros and the 84-inch giant 84XT880 for 10,000 euros at the Preissuchportal guenstiger.de.
Image quality: Ultra HD hui, Full HD pfui
Critics from the industry were quick to storm with the statement that Hisense with these aggressive prices the worthwhile Ultra-HD market broken even before he had even started. Since we have the device here in the lab test, and not just compare technical data, we see that even the low price is fully justified - in view of the adequate quality.
Conclusion
The Hisense Ultra HDTV has to be in the direct comparison on the market the model 58M9363DG of Toshiba, which is based on the same LCD panel and in our large comparison test in issue 12/13 a buy-tip stamp. And since the official selling price of the Japanese was identical to the one originally provided by Hisense, one had to either counter with better quality or correct the price recommendation. The fact that the latter was so massive, says a lot.
The technical equipment of the Hisense is very promising. A proven, slightly anti-reflective Ultra-HD panel with slim frame sits in the nicely designed and high-gloss chrome housing, which offers more connections than some significantly more expensive competitors. A four-way tuner is just as missing as USB recording, network mediaplayer functions or Smart TV with HbbTV. WLAN was integrated with Dualband, and an app for the TV control over smart devices is also found. Of course 3D is supported. Even the most important details, such as the LCN program search of ASTRA satellites, which pre-sorted a channel list well, the developers have thought. The remote control and the screen menus are well organized and are at a high level.
Buying advice: Six Ultra HD TVs at test
If you continue to use the device for a little longer, only small attenuators will drop, for example, that USB recordings can only be deleted on the PC. They can not be edited there because they are stored encrypted as usual. The tablet app should not expect too much from the customer: it does not control the TV, but there is no streaming or the application of the program guide.
The first real disappointment in the test was the mediaplayer. If the data sheet still contains all the possible media containers, codecs and audio formats, you quickly notice that this is only related to USB playback, but not the DLNA network function. Very unattractive for an Ultra HD TV is that the media player only works in Full HD, so photos and videos can not use the full resolution of the panel. And the high-scaling to the full panel resolution is carried out without any intelligence - with correspondingly clumsy results. At least in photos, which is now everyone at home in ultra-high resolution at home, all other current 4K TV can shine, some even with films.
A completely different picture is shown when you connect to the first HDMI input a source that can import genuine Ultra HD. Our laboratory PC as well as a special stand-alone 4K-player delivered in the test phenomenal images of film frequencies with 30 frames per second. After the colors and contrast were matched as well as with the few adjustment options possible, the Ultra-HD playback impresses with its phenomenal sharpness and naturalness. And you have to move closer to the display much closer than a meter, in order to be able to recognize pixel structures. If you look at a film with the usual 23,976 Kinobildern per second, jerks it clearly. This is a pity.
The playback of a Blu-ray over 1080p24 folds already better, also represents standard technology. Like in 720p50 / 60 jerks nothing here. The scaling on the 4K panel rounds off even fine corners and diagonal edges and thus tries to bring a harmonic sharpness into play. Even when the sharpener is fully turned down, a visible manipulation of the image that leaves light artefacts does not stop. From a sufficiently large viewing distance, this is no longer the case.
Ultra HD - The new generation of television
Really unacceptable is the picture quality of the built-in TV tuner. Even HD programs via satellite, which are the best available transmission quality at the moment, are coarse and also artefactic. The on-board means of noise reduction, sharpening and movement compensation do not help any further. Significantly worse is it even with SD material, which is interlaced, so in Halbbildungen is sent. Here the calculation of the comb effects does not work. This results in a really bad TV quality. Here is an external set-top box, which decently decouples, ie 1080p50 issues, really required.
Our laboratory computer, on which two DVB transmitters and receivers are integrated, delivered, for example via HDMI, a television quality that would have doubled the Hisense TV in our rating. Because the sound quality of the 58XT880 is only mediocre, we do not want to run around here, but it fits into the class of slimmed-down TVs without further conspicuousness.
Resolution is not everything. Even the most modern panel with advanced, three times sharper 4K technology does not make a high-end television yet. Here, the intelligence of TV reception and image processing plays a decisive role. Hisense has some catching up here for the second generation. But when you see how the Chinese have evolved TV-technologically (smart, ergonomic and beautiful) over the last two years, this could be quite soon.
Download: Test results: Hisense
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