**A Hands-On Review of the Hisense H8F TV**

As I began testing the Hisense H8F TV, I was immediately struck by its impressive performance in terms of brightness and color accuracy. The TV's LED panel delivers a wide range of colors, making it well-suited for everyday viewing. However, during my test, I noticed that the TV's dynamic range is somewhat limited, particularly in scenes with bright highlights. This resulted in some clipping and crushing of shadows, which may be a concern for viewers who prefer a more nuanced image.

**HDR Performance**

I decided to put the TV through its paces by applying various HDR settings to see how it would perform. I started by applying the standard HDR setting, which showed me that the TV is capable of delivering bright highlights across the board. However, this also resulted in some clipping and crushing of shadows, particularly in scenes with dark areas. When I switched to the HDR mode with local dimming enabled, I saw a significant improvement in terms of contrast and color accuracy. The TV's ability to control brightness and darkness was more even, resulting in a more nuanced image.

**Test Patterns**

To further assess the TV's performance, I applied various test patterns to see how it would handle different types of content. One of my favorite test patterns is the "local dimming" pattern, which shows how well the TV handles dark areas with precise control over brightness and darkness. When I switched this setting to a medium level, I was pleasantly surprised by the results - the TV's local dimming performed admirably, even in scenes where I was expecting some crushing of shadows.

**Real-World Viewing**

With cable set up and ready to go, I began testing the TV in real-world viewing scenarios. While it didn't excel in terms of upscaling low-bitrate content, such as 720p streams from a cable box, it did a reasonable job. However, when streaming 4K HDR content from YouTube, I was pleased to see that the TV's brightness and color accuracy performed well, even in scenes with bright highlights like the moonlit landscape.

**Comparing to Competitors**

As I compared the Hisense H8F TV to other models in its class, such as Samsung and LG, I found it to be a strong contender. While it didn't necessarily outshine its competitors in terms of features or performance, it did deliver on the promise of good picture quality at an affordable price point.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the Hisense H8F TV is a solid choice for anyone looking for a bright room TV that delivers good picture quality without breaking the bank. While it may not be the best option for cinephiles or those who prioritize advanced features like 4K HDR with Dolby Vision, it should satisfy most viewers' needs. With its impressive brightness and color accuracy, combined with its reasonable price point, I would recommend this TV to anyone in the market for a reliable and affordable HDTV.

**Recommendation**

If you're looking for a TV that delivers good picture quality without sacrificing value for money, then the Hisense H8F TV is definitely worth considering. With its impressive brightness and color accuracy, combined with its reasonable price point, it's an excellent choice for everyday viewing. However, if you're looking for advanced features like 4K HDR with Dolby Vision or more advanced picture processing capabilities, you may want to consider other options.

**Additional Tips**

When shopping for a TV, there are several things to keep in mind. First and foremost, ensure that the TV has good brightness and color accuracy, as these factors will greatly impact your viewing experience. Additionally, consider the TV's HDR performance and whether it offers advanced features like local dimming or 4K HDR with Dolby Vision.

**Final Thoughts**

Overall, I was impressed by the Hisense H8F TV's performance in my testing. While it may not be perfect, it delivered on its promises of good picture quality at an affordable price point. With its impressive brightness and color accuracy, combined with its reasonable price point, I would recommend this TV to anyone in the market for a reliable and affordable HDTV.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everyone welcome back I'm Caleb Denison with digital transit today we are reviewing the Hisense HD 8f if you're looking for a 65 inch TV under $700 this is one of a handful of options but promises to perform better than some of those options can it give you the goods we're about to find out ok so if you're unfamiliar with our review videos we're gonna focus primarily on picture quality here if you're interested in other aspects of the TV like what it looks like how many HDMI inputs you get what the Smart TV interface is like to deal with click this link right up here we've got all that information in a separate video but for this video we're gonna talk about picture quality let's start with a couple of tech aspects of this TV it doesn't have quantum dots it uses phosphor coated LEDs that basically means it's not going to get as extremely bright or extremely colorful as a TV that does have quantum dots I don't think that's a deal breaker for most people we do want to see how well it does with HDR content though can it get punchy enough for that to be meaningful how's the upscaling on this TV can it take your cable TV content and make it look decent we'll take a look at all that but before we do let's throw some test patterns on this sucker and see how it performs under stress hey just got a little dark in here romantic isn't it but that's not why I turned the overhead lights off I did that so that we could show you the blooming on this TV this test pattern puts bright boxes in each corner and that should show off the local dimming capabilities of the TV which by the way I've turned to hi normally I keep it at medium but I want to see how good of a job it can do regardless of whether it crushes blacks and when you're on axis it's okay but the thing is like if we sit down in this room we don't see a whole lot of blooming around here but we do see some blooming here and when I'm off axis as I am now and granted this is extreme there's quite a bit of blooming happening here so I'm a little bit concerned about what bright objects on dark backgrounds are gonna look for those theater enthusiasts out there who watch in a dark room that's an important consideration so based on the test pattern not looking super awesome but we'll see what it's like in real life you later this test pattern is an absolute torture test for black levels because we've got right white boxes right next to black ones and really great TVs will do a good job of keeping this black fairly black we're not seeing a whole lot of that here this is definitely not a cinephiles TV which doesn't mean that it's not worth buying I just noticed that with an OLED you're gonna have perfect black here with aq LED from Samsung for instance you're gonna have some pretty good blacks there sony maybe less so I would put this at medium to medium low quality in terms of the black levels on a torture test like this but again we want to go back to real-life viewing and see if that plays out now I want to check out the speed of the local dimming I want it to react quickly to changes on-screen so we're on a fairly bright image here with a ramp going I'm gonna drop down to a dark gray scale ramp and we want to see how fast it darkens the the surrounding image here not particularly fast so there's a little bit of desirability in terms of speed there now let's check out some HDR stuff so I just switched that same ramp pattern into HDR and where I'm standing I see like one bar it's almost entirely clipped out which to me says that Hisense is juicing up bright highlights across the board and so we get a lot of clipping going on there and if I drop down to the dark version I don't see any bars at all there's no ramps whatsoever so we're seeing a little bit of crush not a little bit there's a lot of crushing I'm gonna switch the local dimming to another setting and see if that changes anything so I switch the local dimming to the medium setting which is normally like the lowest I would expect to set a TV and I mean the TV might as well be off I'm not seeing if I'm off access I can see a little bit of a ramp over here but from a test pattern perspective I gotta be honest this is not encouraging back to this test pattern and in HDR I'm actually encouraged by this and that I'm seeing a lot less blooming around those boxes but that's probably just because it's trying to crush everything to total black and juice up the bright highlights as much as with it juicing up those highlights I'm surprised that I'm not seeing more blooming to be honest with you I'm just totally confused now so definitely stick with me to the end of the video because I think you're gonna be surprised by what I have to say all right it's real life viewing time how does this TV hold up after what we saw with the test patterns well I've got cable set up here for you finally and I took a look at this over the last few days and I would say that it does a reasonable job of upscaling I haven't ever seen a TV do a miraculous job of cleaning up the low bit right content 720p content that you get out of your cable box this does a decent job upscaling but I would say it doesn't do the greatest job cleaning up some of the artifacts that you get around that low bitrate content now we're streaming a 4k HDR clip off of youtube we've seen this many many times and I like to see how the TV handles the brightness of the moon versus the dark areas and as it starts to swirl around here I'm looking for shadow detail getting crushed and I'm definitely seeing a little bit of that if I turn out the lights entirely I can see a little bit there but some of the crushing of the blacks that we saw in the test pattern does bear out a little bit especially right here that's a lot of nondescript terrain that I have seen detail in in previous reviews with higher-end televisions still overall it looks decent it's a little on the warm side now I want to see how Netflix HDR looks stranger things 4k Dolby vision as you can see over there we've looked at this clip quite a bit I can see some change in the local dimming as we go through darker and lighter scenes here especially around the contours of the faces I feel like we are getting a decent amount of HDR pop but things are way too dark in the shadows for me here so again we're seeing a little bit of the crushed black action but let's back up for a second and look at this another way look this TV is not exactly built for cinephiles or video files but we do put it through that kind of scrutiny if I put it in the right perspective for you though I got to say this is a TV built for people who want a nice screen size and very good picture quality for not a whole lot of money delivers on that promise I think the most important question is how does it do against the competition I do feel like this TV is punching above what Samsung and LG are offering for a comparable price but I think we have to look at TCL whose 6-series lives in this price range and competes extremely well so you're probably looking at a versus video coming from us between the Hisense h8f and the TCL six Series in the very near future overall I give this TV an endorsement it's not my favorite but I think it's a great bright room TV for everyday use that's at an approachable price point and if it's readily available to you you can buy with confidence I think you'll be relatively satisfied with this TV as always folks thank you for watching hit me up in the comment section if you've got some questions that I left unanswered I'll do my best to answer them for you like subscribe bring that notification bell and of course visit Digital Trends calm for all the latest tech news and reviewshey everyone welcome back I'm Caleb Denison with digital transit today we are reviewing the Hisense HD 8f if you're looking for a 65 inch TV under $700 this is one of a handful of options but promises to perform better than some of those options can it give you the goods we're about to find out ok so if you're unfamiliar with our review videos we're gonna focus primarily on picture quality here if you're interested in other aspects of the TV like what it looks like how many HDMI inputs you get what the Smart TV interface is like to deal with click this link right up here we've got all that information in a separate video but for this video we're gonna talk about picture quality let's start with a couple of tech aspects of this TV it doesn't have quantum dots it uses phosphor coated LEDs that basically means it's not going to get as extremely bright or extremely colorful as a TV that does have quantum dots I don't think that's a deal breaker for most people we do want to see how well it does with HDR content though can it get punchy enough for that to be meaningful how's the upscaling on this TV can it take your cable TV content and make it look decent we'll take a look at all that but before we do let's throw some test patterns on this sucker and see how it performs under stress hey just got a little dark in here romantic isn't it but that's not why I turned the overhead lights off I did that so that we could show you the blooming on this TV this test pattern puts bright boxes in each corner and that should show off the local dimming capabilities of the TV which by the way I've turned to hi normally I keep it at medium but I want to see how good of a job it can do regardless of whether it crushes blacks and when you're on axis it's okay but the thing is like if we sit down in this room we don't see a whole lot of blooming around here but we do see some blooming here and when I'm off axis as I am now and granted this is extreme there's quite a bit of blooming happening here so I'm a little bit concerned about what bright objects on dark backgrounds are gonna look for those theater enthusiasts out there who watch in a dark room that's an important consideration so based on the test pattern not looking super awesome but we'll see what it's like in real life you later this test pattern is an absolute torture test for black levels because we've got right white boxes right next to black ones and really great TVs will do a good job of keeping this black fairly black we're not seeing a whole lot of that here this is definitely not a cinephiles TV which doesn't mean that it's not worth buying I just noticed that with an OLED you're gonna have perfect black here with aq LED from Samsung for instance you're gonna have some pretty good blacks there sony maybe less so I would put this at medium to medium low quality in terms of the black levels on a torture test like this but again we want to go back to real-life viewing and see if that plays out now I want to check out the speed of the local dimming I want it to react quickly to changes on-screen so we're on a fairly bright image here with a ramp going I'm gonna drop down to a dark gray scale ramp and we want to see how fast it darkens the the surrounding image here not particularly fast so there's a little bit of desirability in terms of speed there now let's check out some HDR stuff so I just switched that same ramp pattern into HDR and where I'm standing I see like one bar it's almost entirely clipped out which to me says that Hisense is juicing up bright highlights across the board and so we get a lot of clipping going on there and if I drop down to the dark version I don't see any bars at all there's no ramps whatsoever so we're seeing a little bit of crush not a little bit there's a lot of crushing I'm gonna switch the local dimming to another setting and see if that changes anything so I switch the local dimming to the medium setting which is normally like the lowest I would expect to set a TV and I mean the TV might as well be off I'm not seeing if I'm off access I can see a little bit of a ramp over here but from a test pattern perspective I gotta be honest this is not encouraging back to this test pattern and in HDR I'm actually encouraged by this and that I'm seeing a lot less blooming around those boxes but that's probably just because it's trying to crush everything to total black and juice up the bright highlights as much as with it juicing up those highlights I'm surprised that I'm not seeing more blooming to be honest with you I'm just totally confused now so definitely stick with me to the end of the video because I think you're gonna be surprised by what I have to say all right it's real life viewing time how does this TV hold up after what we saw with the test patterns well I've got cable set up here for you finally and I took a look at this over the last few days and I would say that it does a reasonable job of upscaling I haven't ever seen a TV do a miraculous job of cleaning up the low bit right content 720p content that you get out of your cable box this does a decent job upscaling but I would say it doesn't do the greatest job cleaning up some of the artifacts that you get around that low bitrate content now we're streaming a 4k HDR clip off of youtube we've seen this many many times and I like to see how the TV handles the brightness of the moon versus the dark areas and as it starts to swirl around here I'm looking for shadow detail getting crushed and I'm definitely seeing a little bit of that if I turn out the lights entirely I can see a little bit there but some of the crushing of the blacks that we saw in the test pattern does bear out a little bit especially right here that's a lot of nondescript terrain that I have seen detail in in previous reviews with higher-end televisions still overall it looks decent it's a little on the warm side now I want to see how Netflix HDR looks stranger things 4k Dolby vision as you can see over there we've looked at this clip quite a bit I can see some change in the local dimming as we go through darker and lighter scenes here especially around the contours of the faces I feel like we are getting a decent amount of HDR pop but things are way too dark in the shadows for me here so again we're seeing a little bit of the crushed black action but let's back up for a second and look at this another way look this TV is not exactly built for cinephiles or video files but we do put it through that kind of scrutiny if I put it in the right perspective for you though I got to say this is a TV built for people who want a nice screen size and very good picture quality for not a whole lot of money delivers on that promise I think the most important question is how does it do against the competition I do feel like this TV is punching above what Samsung and LG are offering for a comparable price but I think we have to look at TCL whose 6-series lives in this price range and competes extremely well so you're probably looking at a versus video coming from us between the Hisense h8f and the TCL six Series in the very near future overall I give this TV an endorsement it's not my favorite but I think it's a great bright room TV for everyday use that's at an approachable price point and if it's readily available to you you can buy with confidence I think you'll be relatively satisfied with this TV as always folks thank you for watching hit me up in the comment section if you've got some questions that I left unanswered I'll do my best to answer them for you like subscribe bring that notification bell and of course visit Digital Trends calm for all the latest tech news and reviews\n"