Hisense QD6QF  TV Review

The Hisense QD6QF has poor peak brightness in HDR. Most dim and moderately lit scenes look good, but bright scenes are flat and dull. Bright specular highlights like the lamps in the hallway scene don’t stand out at all.

There's no visible difference in HDR brightness when using Game Mode.

This TV has disappointing peak brightness in SDR. It's not bright enough to overcome glare in a bright room, but it's good enough for a dim room with a few lights on or with the curtains closed during the day. There’s no variation in peak brightness with different scenes.

The Hisense QD6QF has poor contrast. The native contrast of the VA panel is high enough that blacks in dim scenes are dark enough. Since there's no local dimming, the entire screen lights up when there's any bright elements in the scene, causing dark areas to appear washed out. Still, its contrast is much better than more expensive entry-level models such as the Sony BRAVIA 2 II.

The TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so there are no lighting zones. This means there's no haloing around bright elements against a dark background or subtitles, but the entire image looks gray and washed out.

This TV doesn't have a local dimming feature, so it can't adjust the backlight of individual zones to brighten up highlights without impacting the rest of the image. This means that there are no distracting flickers or brightness changes as bright highlights move between dimming zones.

Switching to Game Mode doesn't result in any noticeable difference in dark scene performance.

This TV has good black uniformity. There are a few warm, bright patches along the bottom edge, but it's not too noticeable. There's no local dimming feature to improve uniformity in dark scenes.

This TV has mediocre color volume in SDR. It can barely display the full BT.709 color space used in most SDR content, and it has very limited coverage of the wider DCI-P3 and Rec.2020 color spaces. It struggles with bright reds especially, severely limiting its coverage of very light scenes.

If you enjoy saturated colors, though, you have to use the 'Dynamic' picture setting, as like the Hisense QD7QF, it clamps the color space to BT.709 in the 'Movie' mode.

This TV has passable color volume in HDR. It can't display dark saturated colors very well due to its low contrast and lack of a local dimming feature. Bright colors aren't displayed well, either, due to its low peak brightness.

This TV has excellent accuracy in SDR before calibration. The color accuracy is amazing, with no noticeable issues, and the color temperature is very close to the target. The white balance is a bit worse overall, but still good, and most people won't notice any issues.

This TV calibrates well, despite its lack of a full color calibration feature. The accuracy after calibration is nearly perfect.

See our full calibration settings.

This TV has decent accuracy in HDR before calibration. The color accuracy is decent, with noticeable mapping errors across the board, and the overall color temperature is very cool. The white balance is good, but there are noticeable issues in midtones and dark shades.

Calibrating the TV in HDR helps improve accuracy a bit overall, but since it lacks a color calibration feature, it's not possible to fully calibrate it. Accuracy after calibration is good, with the white balance and color accuracy improving slightly, and the color temperature is a bit closer to the D65 target.

The PQ EOTF tracking on this TV is decent overall. Since it lacks a local dimming feature, near-blacks are raised a bit, causing shadow details to appear washed out. Above that, it tracks the content creator's intent well, with no noticeable issues until you get close to the TV's peak brightness. There's a gradual roll off in content mastered at 600 or 1,000 nits, preserving some fine details at the expense of peak highlights. The roll off is more gradual in content mastered at 4,000 nits.

Unfortunately, this TV is largely ineffective at smoothing out low-quality content from streaming services. There's almost no reduction in macro blocking and posterization, but there's no loss of fine details, either.

This TV has decent sharpness processing when upscaling low resolution content. Text is a little blurry, but it's not too bad.

The Hisense QN6QF has decent gradient handling. There's noticeable banding in darker shades of any color, but it's not too bad.

The Hisense QD6QF has very good input lag when you switch to Game Mode, and it feels very responsive when gaming. Oddly, like the Hisense QD7QF, it supports 1440p120 but not the far more common 1080p120. The input lag when gaming at 1440p is a very high 30.9 ms, and it feels sluggish.

Unfortunately, this TV has limited format support. At its native 4k resolution, it supports a maximum refresh rate of 60Hz. It doesn't support 1080p @ 120Hz, but 1440p @ 120Hz is supported, which is incredibly odd and likely a bug.

This TV supports all three types of VRR, but it's not very effective. Due to its low maximum refresh rate at 4k, the refresh rate range isn't wide enough to work with Low Framerate Compensation (LFC), so you'll see tearing if your framerate drops below 48Hz. 

With a 1440p resolution, VRR works up to 120Hz and down to <20Hz, so that resolution does work with LFC.

Unfortunately, this TV has a slow response time at the max refresh rate of 60Hz. There's very little inverse ghosting caused by overshoot, which is nice, but most transitions are slow. Dark scenes are especially bad, causing a long blur trail behind fast-moving objects in shadow details.

This TV doesn't support a 120Hz refresh rate at it's native resolution.

Unfortunately, this TV has a slow response time at the max refresh rate of 60Hz. There's very little inverse ghosting caused by overshoot, which is nice, but most transitions are slow. Dark scenes are especially bad, causing a long blur trail behind fast-moving objects in shadow details.

This TV is a 60Hz TV, so it only supports 4k @ 60Hz on the P55. You can switch it to 1440p @ 120Hz instead, but oddly, it doesn't support 1080p @ 120Hz. It has Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), so it'll automatically switch to Game Mode when the TV detects a game playing, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games.

The Hisense QD6QF only supports 4k @ 60Hz or 1440p @ 120Hz on the Xbox Series consoles. Oddly, 1080p @ 120Hz isn't supported. It has Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM), so it'll automatically switch to Game Mode when the TV detects a game being played, which gives you the lowest possible input lag for games. It also supports Dolby Vision gaming with supported titles.

Thanks to the relative slow response time on this TV, there's just a bit of stutter in slow panning shots when watching movies.

This TV can remove judder from all external sources, included sources that only support 60Hz outputs, like most cable boxes. Oddly, it can't remove judder from the native apps.

The cinematic response time on this TV is just okay. Most transitions are slow, resulting in blurry motion in movies.

The Hisense QD6QF flickers at a very low 180Hz, which is likely to be noticed by most people. It's flicker-free at the max brightness setting.

The TV doesn't have an optional backlight strobing feature, commonly known as black frame insertion (BFI), to help reduce persistence blur.

There's an optional motion interpolation feature on this TV, but it introduces a lot of artifacts around people and even the background. It also introduces a slight halo effect that's more pronounced in faster moving scenes.

The glossy coating does little to reduce the intensity of direct, mirror-like reflections. This means you'll clearly see any light sources or windows directly opposite the screen.

There's barely any noticeable increase in black levels when watching this TV in a bright room.

The total amount of reflected light is just okay. There are no distracting artifacts or rainbow smear, but bright lights are reflected back almost perfectly, and they're very distracting.

The TV's perceived color volume in a bright room is decent. Ambient light has almost no impact on its color volume, but it's limited in a dark room anyway.

The Hisense QD6QF has a mediocre viewing angle. Colors wash out noticeably at a moderate angle, and there's a noticeable yellow shift as blues drop quickly as you move away from the center.

Unfortunately, the Hisense QD6QF has poor gray uniformity. The screen is incredibly patchy, with bright and dark patches spread throughout the screen. It's a bit better in near-black scenes, but even there you'll see bright bands and patchy spots across the screen.

This TV uses a BGR subpixel layout. It doesn't affect picture quality but can cause issues with text clarity in some applications when using it as a PC monitor.

It uses a KSF phosphor coating to produce red light and has high peaks on reds and blues. This model does have good separation between colors, giving it solid color purity and a wide color gamut.

This TV is limited to HDMI 2.0 bandwidth on all four inputs, and it doesn't support ATSC 3.0, so you're limited to a maximum of 1080p for over-the-air broadcasts.

This TV supports eARC, which allows you to pass high-quality, uncompressed audio to a compatible receiver through an HDMI cable. It supports all major audio formats, so you don't have to worry about compatibility with external sources.

The Hisense QD6QF has a pretty basic design, and it doesn't look premium. The bezels are thin on three sides, and the panel sticks out a bit from the surrounding frame. 

The two feet are made of plastic and are set at the ends of the TV, with no alternative mounting position.

The footprint of the 65-inch stand is 39.8" x 11.8" x 2.2".

The inputs are housed in a central electronics box, so even though most of them face to the side, they're hard to reach. Unfortunately, there's nothing to help with cable management.

This TV has decent build quality. There's a noticeable flex in the rear plastic panel, but it's unlikely to cause any issues. It's made of a mix of plastic and metal that feels okay overall.

The TV's Fire TV OS is easy to use, and you won't have any problems finding content to watch. Adjusting settings is simple, but as we've seen with other TVs with the same OS, the backlight slider is very slow to respond to your inputs.

Unfortunately, like most TVs on the market, the smart interface contains ads, and you can't disable them.

• Quick setup guide
• Remote
• 2x AAA batteries
• VESA mounting adapters
• Power cable

The Hisense QD6QF has a disappointing frequency response. It's okay at moderate volume levels, but it can't get very loud and there's noticeable compression at max volume. There's also a noticeable dip in low-treble that muddies dialogue a bit.