**Picture Quality: A Crucial Consideration**

As we delve into the world of modern TVs, one aspect stands out as crucial to our viewing experience: picture quality. In this comparison, I'll be evaluating two prominent models, the TCL 8K QLED and the Hisense H9G, to determine which one reigns supreme in terms of visual fidelity.

Throughout my analysis, it became clear that both TVs offer impressive picture quality, but with distinct differences that set them apart from each other. The most striking aspect is the color accuracy – or rather, the lack thereof. The Hisense H9G struggles to reproduce a wide range of colors, resulting in a somewhat one-dimensional viewing experience. In contrast, the TCL 8K QLED gets color right, providing a more vivid and immersive visual landscape.

Moreover, when it comes to contrast, I found that the TCL 8K QLED strikes the perfect balance for my preferences. The highsense H9G, on the other hand, presents an aggressively bright picture, which can be toned down but may not be ideal for all viewing situations. This approach might appeal to some, but for me, it's a case of "less is more" when it comes to contrast.

**Motion Handling: A Sensitive Aspect**

While picture quality is undoubtedly important, motion handling is another critical aspect that can significantly impact our viewing experience. This includes the TV's ability to handle fast-paced content, such as sports or action movies, without introducing distracting artifacts like blur or ghosting.

Fortunately, neither the TCL 8K QLED nor the Hisense H9G suffers from atrocious motion handling, but there is a noticeable difference between the two. The high sense H9G handles motion relatively well, with minimal distraction or blur. However, if you're looking for a TV that can handle rapid motion with ease and precision, the TCL 8K QLED has a slight edge.

**Gaming: A Key Consideration**

The advent of next-generation consoles and the emergence of high-performance gaming cards are changing the landscape of PC gaming. TVs need to be able to handle these advanced features, including Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and higher refresh rates, to deliver an optimal gaming experience.

In this regard, the TCL 8K QLED takes a significant lead over the Hisense H9G. The former boasts THX Certified Gaming Mode, which allows for smoother motion and faster response times. Additionally, it can display up to 120 frames per second at 1440p or 60 frames per second at 4K, making it a better choice for gamers looking to take advantage of the latest console technology.

**The Verdict: A Confident Recommendation**

After conducting an in-depth comparison of both TVs, I'm confident in my recommendation. While the Hisense H9G is an impressive TV with its own strengths, such as black levels and brightness, it ultimately falls short in terms of picture quality and gaming capabilities. In contrast, the TCL 8K QLED delivers a more well-rounded experience, with excellent color accuracy, perfect contrast, and superior motion handling – especially when it comes to gaming.

If you're already invested in the next-gen console ecosystem or are eagerly awaiting new gaming hardware, I strongly recommend opting for the TCL 8K QLED. Its THX Certified Gaming Mode and high refresh rates make it an ideal choice for gamers looking to enhance their viewing experience. However, if you've already purchased the H9G and love its performance, that's perfectly fine – it might be the best TV for your needs.

**Final Thoughts**

In conclusion, both TVs are excellent choices in their own right, but for me, the TCL 8K QLED stands out as the superior option. Its impressive picture quality, coupled with exceptional gaming capabilities, make it an attractive choice for those looking to upgrade their viewing experience. As always, I encourage you to weigh my opinion against your own experiences and preferences. Visit digitaltrends.com for the latest tech news and reviews to stay informed about the ever-evolving world of consumer electronics.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe have done quite a few really fun versus videos this year but i don't think any of them are quite as important as the one we're about to do right now i mean look i even got dressed up welcome back everyone i'm caleb dennison and yeah we've had some fun this year the lg oled versus sony oled in particular was a real blast to produce but i think comparing the tcl 6 series or r635 against the hisense h9g is an even more important comparison because we're talking about two tvs that start under a thousand dollars at 65 inches and that number is only going to go down over time not only that but both of these tvs perform extremely well and not just for the price i mean in general they're both over achievers so very approachable in price very exciting in performance i think everybody who's looking for a new tv should be looking at these two models in consideration so let's see if we can figure out which one's the best so as always we're going to be getting to picture quality very soon a very important consideration of course but before we get there i want to start with how these tvs look from an aesthetic standpoint actually they both look very similar you're looking at about the same width of black bezel or border rather around the top and sides of the television both have this aluminum strip that goes across the bottom with the tcl you've got a little bit of a light there at the center but you know what the big difference aesthetically speaking is actually the stand with tcl you get a more conventional two foot stand very wide stance you're going to need a big entertainment center if you're going to stand mounted whereas with the high sense not only does it have a slightly narrower footprint but its footprint itself looks well at first i'll tell you it looks weird i didn't think i was going to like it when i was just looking at the pieces out of the box i thought what is this but as we got the tv set up it kind of grew on me and at this point i actually kind of like it look beauty is in the eye of the beholder you can see them here and decide which you like but i definitely wouldn't make a decision based on the stand so let's move on swinging around the back of the tv we can see that both have four hdmi ports the difference here is that the hdmi ports in the tcl are a little bit more advanced than those in the h9g i'm going to talk a little bit about that later but next i want to get into what else is happening inside the television i found that the processing for these tvs is pretty similar where they differ is in the back lighting technology tcl has a mini led backlight system and if you're not familiar with that it just means that the led backlights back there are much smaller and there's a whole lot more of them in the tens of thousands as opposed to hundreds which you would find in the h9g that could translate into superior performance but as i've seen with the h9g so far it's doing a pretty great job so we're going to talk about that aspect in the picture quality section in just a moment now let's talk real quick about the user interface with tcl you get roku tv with the hisense you get android tv now this is actually a more important aspect than usual because of what i said about these tvs in their full reviews now with the tcl 6 series that we reviewed you're talking about a 55 inch model and i'm finding that the experience with the 65-inch model is quite a bit different you might remember i had to really toy around with the picture settings to get what i thought was a decent amount of hdr pop while also getting the colors right i didn't have to do that here at all in fact i'll tell you what we arrived at in terms of the picture settings in a little bit but what i found is that it's very easy to get the tcl set up in terms of the picture settings at least it is now with this 65-inch version i don't know if they made a change but far and away an easier process the other thing i'll say about roku tv is that you get almost all the apps you could ever want in a very easy to use interface however it does not support hbo max right now so with the android platform you're almost guaranteed some kind of support from any new or emerging apps whereas with roku uh it's not so certain these days we'll have to see how that plays out at any rate with the android tv system you're looking at the possibility of it getting upgraded to google tv down the road you might be aware that the new chromecast with google tv launched and that platform is expected to make its way to some android tvs in the future it could take like a year but you're going to own this tv for a little while so there is a possibility the android tv system here could get a little bit of an upgrade other than that both of these operating systems are very snappy you don't have to wait around for it to catch up to your clicking they're very responsive i think with the roku tv there's a little bit more setup involved at the jump but ultimately once everything is done very easy to use these tvs also on the smart tv front with the hisense android tv you're getting chromecast built in as well as google assistant which is very capable as we all know with the roku you can do some screen mirroring and a little bit of casting it's a closed voice ecosystem though it works very well it's just not as robust as android tv and the integration of google now a quick word on sound quality which normally we don't touch but these tvs have gotten bigger since full array local dimming became a thing there's more room so you can actually put some speakers in there with some size and some oomph unfortunately we didn't really get that here with either tv although i will say the high sense sounds significantly worse than the tcl neither one of them are especially exciting and given the fact that sound bars are so inexpensive and wildly better than anything you're gonna get out of either one of these tvs i would definitely suggest doing it it's you know passable you're gonna be able to watch the news you can hear stuff but man it's really underwhelming think about a sound bar now the part you've all been waiting for the picture quality comparison and before i get into it i want to explain how we set these tvs up so with the high sense we're in the theater day mode for sdr and with the tcl we're in the movie mode for sdr those are actually already very close except with the tcl you want to max out the backlight so that it matches up with what the hysense is doing by default so in a way we're going with out of box setting on the high sense kicking up the backlight a little bit for the movie mode on the tcl so that it's a closer match otherwise color temperature is about the same the gamma is the same at 2.2 and when we go into hdr we're going into similar hdr modes and for this testing we primarily used hdr10 didn't dive into dolby vision too much but i will speak to that in a moment now for a picture quality evaluation i like to start at the foundation that would be black levels and i gotta say the h9g in this regard is extremely impressive especially considering it doesn't have the surgical precision of the mini led tech that the tcl has it does a remarkable job of producing deep inky black levels and it doesn't really sacrifice much shadow detail in the process in fact we see it outperforming the tcl in that regard with that said the tcl also does a great job with black levels and more to the point i think it actually does a really great job with minimizing the halo around bright objects on a black background the high sense stands right up to it though so in terms of blacks i'm gonna have to hand it to the high sense television now on the opposite side of the spectrum is brightness and again the high sense wins out in total brightness it is a much brighter tv in fact i think i started out the review video saying this tv is lit and i stand by that it gets very bright and significantly more so than the tcl however i'm not seeing that being as big of an advantage as i expected and in fact when it comes to preserving bright highlight detail the tcl is actually a bit better at that it's a little bit more judicious and honestly if you're talking about watching in a dark or even fairly dim room the high sense is just it's bright like it's unnecessarily bright i love that it can really juice up highlight details i love that it can combat with a very bright room scenario honestly though i'm not seeing the extra brightness the high sense is capable of playing out as a real advantage in real life viewing i get all the contrast i need out of the tcl with the benefit of bright highlight detail being preserved so unless you just love getting blown out of the room i honestly think that the tcl wins out overall in the contrast argument it does crush a little bit of the blacks but not so much that i would call it for the high sense in the contrast department which seems crazy because better blacks better brightness isn't that better contrast well yeah but sometimes you can have too much of a good thing and that's kind of what i'm getting with the high sense here now we've got to talk about color and this is going to get really interesting right now we have the advantage of having these two tvs right next to each other that being the case we can see that the high sense is clearly way off in the color department it's just wrong now you may be looking over my shoulder and thinking well the blue on the high sense is more blue than the blue on the tcl that's true it's also the wrong blue so in terms of accuracy out of the box the tcl definitely has this in hand but again you only see that difference when you put the tvs right next to each other so is that really a problem for most buyers i'm going to go out on a limb and say not really because when you're dazzled by a tv you're dazzled by a tv unless you are a color scientist or a videographer or a photographer who is really really sensitive to color then you're probably not going to notice that hey sometimes the high sense looks a little magenta in the whites and it is definitely getting the hues of colors wrong but color accuracy is not necessarily the same as color vibrance or color effectiveness so yeah if i pull out the measurement tools i will see that the hisense does not perform as well as the tcl with my own naked eye because i have a lot of experience with this kind of thing i can see the hysense is not right the tcl is but the high sense is still very exciting all right keep that in mind now let's talk about motion handling for a second which is not an aspect of picture quality that i think a lot of people are super sensitive to but it is one of those things where if you get a tv that handles it poorly that's when you notice it the good news here is that neither one of these tvs are absolutely horrible at handling motion i don't think you're going to get distracted very often by it i will say that the high sense is coming in a little under the tcl here but really to get significantly better motion handling you're gonna have to spend a lot more money so i'm putting these two on fairly even ground with the tcl having a slight advantage so we've taken picture quality and we've broken it down into its constituent parts i've done the measurements i've also just sat around and watched tv on these televisions and i can say with confidence that either way you go i think you're going to be pretty thrilled with the picture quality you get especially for the price you're paying but if i have to call a winner here i'm going to call it for the tcl in terms of picture quality because for one thing it gets color right whereas the hisense doesn't and for another the contrast for me is right where i want it with the highsense i think it's aggressively bright you can tone that down but just in general the approach that it takes is to really you know force that contrast down your eyeballs and it's not something i'm really digging i'm impressed it's definitely impressive but for most viewing situations that i find myself in i just prefer the tcl subjective you might disagree and that's cool take a look at these tvs if you can pick the one that you like best but from my tv reviewer super analytical super picky stance i'm going to go with the tcl but wait we're not done yet we got to talk about gaming so the next gen consoles are coming and along with them a whole new kind of gaming experience we're also seeing some hot rod gaming cards coming out for pcs and the fact is the tcl is built to play off some of those features whereas the hisense h9g just isn't the h9g does not support any kind of variable refresh rate yes you can still game in 4k hdr uh and it looks very good but the tcl just has a better looking gaming picture preset and that's thanks to thx certified gaming mode it can also do 120 frames per second at 1440p or 60 frames per second at 4k so it's more versatile than the high sense so when we talk about these new next-gen consoles coming out the tcl is poised to take much better advantage of their advanced capabilities so for factoring gaming in along with picture quality and other elements as one of the deciding factors about whether you want to buy a tv or not i got to say if gaming is important to you and you are excited about those next gen consoles the tcl is the better choice so it doesn't really matter what i say here some of you are going to disagree with me some of you are going to agree with me we could argue about this all day the bottom line is that for me picture quality and gaming capability are what really distinguish these tvs from each other and when it comes right down to it i prefer the tcl so i'm going to call the winner here the tcl the hisense h9g is a really impressive tv the black levels impressive the brightness very impressive but when you add everything together and you take the picture quality on the whole i just prefer the tcl some of you would not some of you would prefer the high sets and that's fine so if you've already purchased the h9g you've got it at home and you love it and you don't know why i'm standing here telling you it's not the best it's because it's just not the best for me it might be the best thing for you and if you love it that's really all that matters it is an impressive television absolutely but in the end this is my call for my video and i'm going to call it with confidence for the tcl6 series thanks as always for watching everyone i know you're already in the comments down there right now i'll be right there with you soon but if you were waiting for this comparison to make a decision what do you think leave me that comment down below like subscribe hit that notification bell and as always visit digitaltrends.com for the latest tech news and reviewswe have done quite a few really fun versus videos this year but i don't think any of them are quite as important as the one we're about to do right now i mean look i even got dressed up welcome back everyone i'm caleb dennison and yeah we've had some fun this year the lg oled versus sony oled in particular was a real blast to produce but i think comparing the tcl 6 series or r635 against the hisense h9g is an even more important comparison because we're talking about two tvs that start under a thousand dollars at 65 inches and that number is only going to go down over time not only that but both of these tvs perform extremely well and not just for the price i mean in general they're both over achievers so very approachable in price very exciting in performance i think everybody who's looking for a new tv should be looking at these two models in consideration so let's see if we can figure out which one's the best so as always we're going to be getting to picture quality very soon a very important consideration of course but before we get there i want to start with how these tvs look from an aesthetic standpoint actually they both look very similar you're looking at about the same width of black bezel or border rather around the top and sides of the television both have this aluminum strip that goes across the bottom with the tcl you've got a little bit of a light there at the center but you know what the big difference aesthetically speaking is actually the stand with tcl you get a more conventional two foot stand very wide stance you're going to need a big entertainment center if you're going to stand mounted whereas with the high sense not only does it have a slightly narrower footprint but its footprint itself looks well at first i'll tell you it looks weird i didn't think i was going to like it when i was just looking at the pieces out of the box i thought what is this but as we got the tv set up it kind of grew on me and at this point i actually kind of like it look beauty is in the eye of the beholder you can see them here and decide which you like but i definitely wouldn't make a decision based on the stand so let's move on swinging around the back of the tv we can see that both have four hdmi ports the difference here is that the hdmi ports in the tcl are a little bit more advanced than those in the h9g i'm going to talk a little bit about that later but next i want to get into what else is happening inside the television i found that the processing for these tvs is pretty similar where they differ is in the back lighting technology tcl has a mini led backlight system and if you're not familiar with that it just means that the led backlights back there are much smaller and there's a whole lot more of them in the tens of thousands as opposed to hundreds which you would find in the h9g that could translate into superior performance but as i've seen with the h9g so far it's doing a pretty great job so we're going to talk about that aspect in the picture quality section in just a moment now let's talk real quick about the user interface with tcl you get roku tv with the hisense you get android tv now this is actually a more important aspect than usual because of what i said about these tvs in their full reviews now with the tcl 6 series that we reviewed you're talking about a 55 inch model and i'm finding that the experience with the 65-inch model is quite a bit different you might remember i had to really toy around with the picture settings to get what i thought was a decent amount of hdr pop while also getting the colors right i didn't have to do that here at all in fact i'll tell you what we arrived at in terms of the picture settings in a little bit but what i found is that it's very easy to get the tcl set up in terms of the picture settings at least it is now with this 65-inch version i don't know if they made a change but far and away an easier process the other thing i'll say about roku tv is that you get almost all the apps you could ever want in a very easy to use interface however it does not support hbo max right now so with the android platform you're almost guaranteed some kind of support from any new or emerging apps whereas with roku uh it's not so certain these days we'll have to see how that plays out at any rate with the android tv system you're looking at the possibility of it getting upgraded to google tv down the road you might be aware that the new chromecast with google tv launched and that platform is expected to make its way to some android tvs in the future it could take like a year but you're going to own this tv for a little while so there is a possibility the android tv system here could get a little bit of an upgrade other than that both of these operating systems are very snappy you don't have to wait around for it to catch up to your clicking they're very responsive i think with the roku tv there's a little bit more setup involved at the jump but ultimately once everything is done very easy to use these tvs also on the smart tv front with the hisense android tv you're getting chromecast built in as well as google assistant which is very capable as we all know with the roku you can do some screen mirroring and a little bit of casting it's a closed voice ecosystem though it works very well it's just not as robust as android tv and the integration of google now a quick word on sound quality which normally we don't touch but these tvs have gotten bigger since full array local dimming became a thing there's more room so you can actually put some speakers in there with some size and some oomph unfortunately we didn't really get that here with either tv although i will say the high sense sounds significantly worse than the tcl neither one of them are especially exciting and given the fact that sound bars are so inexpensive and wildly better than anything you're gonna get out of either one of these tvs i would definitely suggest doing it it's you know passable you're gonna be able to watch the news you can hear stuff but man it's really underwhelming think about a sound bar now the part you've all been waiting for the picture quality comparison and before i get into it i want to explain how we set these tvs up so with the high sense we're in the theater day mode for sdr and with the tcl we're in the movie mode for sdr those are actually already very close except with the tcl you want to max out the backlight so that it matches up with what the hysense is doing by default so in a way we're going with out of box setting on the high sense kicking up the backlight a little bit for the movie mode on the tcl so that it's a closer match otherwise color temperature is about the same the gamma is the same at 2.2 and when we go into hdr we're going into similar hdr modes and for this testing we primarily used hdr10 didn't dive into dolby vision too much but i will speak to that in a moment now for a picture quality evaluation i like to start at the foundation that would be black levels and i gotta say the h9g in this regard is extremely impressive especially considering it doesn't have the surgical precision of the mini led tech that the tcl has it does a remarkable job of producing deep inky black levels and it doesn't really sacrifice much shadow detail in the process in fact we see it outperforming the tcl in that regard with that said the tcl also does a great job with black levels and more to the point i think it actually does a really great job with minimizing the halo around bright objects on a black background the high sense stands right up to it though so in terms of blacks i'm gonna have to hand it to the high sense television now on the opposite side of the spectrum is brightness and again the high sense wins out in total brightness it is a much brighter tv in fact i think i started out the review video saying this tv is lit and i stand by that it gets very bright and significantly more so than the tcl however i'm not seeing that being as big of an advantage as i expected and in fact when it comes to preserving bright highlight detail the tcl is actually a bit better at that it's a little bit more judicious and honestly if you're talking about watching in a dark or even fairly dim room the high sense is just it's bright like it's unnecessarily bright i love that it can really juice up highlight details i love that it can combat with a very bright room scenario honestly though i'm not seeing the extra brightness the high sense is capable of playing out as a real advantage in real life viewing i get all the contrast i need out of the tcl with the benefit of bright highlight detail being preserved so unless you just love getting blown out of the room i honestly think that the tcl wins out overall in the contrast argument it does crush a little bit of the blacks but not so much that i would call it for the high sense in the contrast department which seems crazy because better blacks better brightness isn't that better contrast well yeah but sometimes you can have too much of a good thing and that's kind of what i'm getting with the high sense here now we've got to talk about color and this is going to get really interesting right now we have the advantage of having these two tvs right next to each other that being the case we can see that the high sense is clearly way off in the color department it's just wrong now you may be looking over my shoulder and thinking well the blue on the high sense is more blue than the blue on the tcl that's true it's also the wrong blue so in terms of accuracy out of the box the tcl definitely has this in hand but again you only see that difference when you put the tvs right next to each other so is that really a problem for most buyers i'm going to go out on a limb and say not really because when you're dazzled by a tv you're dazzled by a tv unless you are a color scientist or a videographer or a photographer who is really really sensitive to color then you're probably not going to notice that hey sometimes the high sense looks a little magenta in the whites and it is definitely getting the hues of colors wrong but color accuracy is not necessarily the same as color vibrance or color effectiveness so yeah if i pull out the measurement tools i will see that the hisense does not perform as well as the tcl with my own naked eye because i have a lot of experience with this kind of thing i can see the hysense is not right the tcl is but the high sense is still very exciting all right keep that in mind now let's talk about motion handling for a second which is not an aspect of picture quality that i think a lot of people are super sensitive to but it is one of those things where if you get a tv that handles it poorly that's when you notice it the good news here is that neither one of these tvs are absolutely horrible at handling motion i don't think you're going to get distracted very often by it i will say that the high sense is coming in a little under the tcl here but really to get significantly better motion handling you're gonna have to spend a lot more money so i'm putting these two on fairly even ground with the tcl having a slight advantage so we've taken picture quality and we've broken it down into its constituent parts i've done the measurements i've also just sat around and watched tv on these televisions and i can say with confidence that either way you go i think you're going to be pretty thrilled with the picture quality you get especially for the price you're paying but if i have to call a winner here i'm going to call it for the tcl in terms of picture quality because for one thing it gets color right whereas the hisense doesn't and for another the contrast for me is right where i want it with the highsense i think it's aggressively bright you can tone that down but just in general the approach that it takes is to really you know force that contrast down your eyeballs and it's not something i'm really digging i'm impressed it's definitely impressive but for most viewing situations that i find myself in i just prefer the tcl subjective you might disagree and that's cool take a look at these tvs if you can pick the one that you like best but from my tv reviewer super analytical super picky stance i'm going to go with the tcl but wait we're not done yet we got to talk about gaming so the next gen consoles are coming and along with them a whole new kind of gaming experience we're also seeing some hot rod gaming cards coming out for pcs and the fact is the tcl is built to play off some of those features whereas the hisense h9g just isn't the h9g does not support any kind of variable refresh rate yes you can still game in 4k hdr uh and it looks very good but the tcl just has a better looking gaming picture preset and that's thanks to thx certified gaming mode it can also do 120 frames per second at 1440p or 60 frames per second at 4k so it's more versatile than the high sense so when we talk about these new next-gen consoles coming out the tcl is poised to take much better advantage of their advanced capabilities so for factoring gaming in along with picture quality and other elements as one of the deciding factors about whether you want to buy a tv or not i got to say if gaming is important to you and you are excited about those next gen consoles the tcl is the better choice so it doesn't really matter what i say here some of you are going to disagree with me some of you are going to agree with me we could argue about this all day the bottom line is that for me picture quality and gaming capability are what really distinguish these tvs from each other and when it comes right down to it i prefer the tcl so i'm going to call the winner here the tcl the hisense h9g is a really impressive tv the black levels impressive the brightness very impressive but when you add everything together and you take the picture quality on the whole i just prefer the tcl some of you would not some of you would prefer the high sets and that's fine so if you've already purchased the h9g you've got it at home and you love it and you don't know why i'm standing here telling you it's not the best it's because it's just not the best for me it might be the best thing for you and if you love it that's really all that matters it is an impressive television absolutely but in the end this is my call for my video and i'm going to call it with confidence for the tcl6 series thanks as always for watching everyone i know you're already in the comments down there right now i'll be right there with you soon but if you were waiting for this comparison to make a decision what do you think leave me that comment down below like subscribe hit that notification bell and as always visit digitaltrends.com for the latest tech news and reviews\n"