In summary With the U8QF from Hisense you buy a television with an excellent price-performance ratio. The image quality is excellent, partly thanks to a backlight with ‘full array local dimming’. The sound that the television produces is also good, thanks to the built-in soundbar from JBL. Downsides are the limited viewing angles, a limited range of apps and the lack of HDMI 2.1.

In 2017 Samsung, in response to the growing market share of OLED TVs, with the sale of QLED televisions. These devices use an LCD in combination with quantum dots for a larger color range and higher brightness. Samsung may have the right to the brand name QLED, but that does not mean that other brands cannot make televisions that use exactly the same technology. In this review we look at the 55 “- U8QF from Hisense, a television that we should not call QLED, but that does use quantum dots.

The U8QF has a UHD panel with a full array local dimming behind it backlight. This improves the black display by simply not illuminating the parts of the screen that should remain dark. This provides more contrast, which is of course an advantage when displaying HDR. This TV can do this in both HDR 10 + as Dolby Vision format. Also the U8QF can reproduce sound in Dolby Atmos format through JBL designed speaker system with front facing speakers.

Hisense televisions use its own smart TV platform Vidaa U, of which version 4.0 is installed on this TV. In terms of features, this TV can compete with televisions of the major brands. At the time of writing, the 55 “- U8QF was listed in the Pricewatch for around nine hundred euros, a very decent price for a quantum dot television with fald backlight.