Hisense U65QF  TV Review

The Hisense U65QF has adequate HDR brightness, and it's noticeably brighter than the entry-level Hisense QD7QF. Combined with the TV's good contrast, highlights get bright enough to stand out in dim and moderately lit scenes. Entirely well-lit scenes aren't quite as bright, but those scenes don't look too dim, and you don't notice a large drop in luminance.

Our results above are with the TV set to Movie Mode with 'Dynamic Contrast' disabled. Below are the results with 'Dynamic Contrast' turned on, which gives you a slightly brighter image at the cost of accuracy.

• Hallway Lights: 465 cd/m²
• Yellow Skyscraper: 330 cd/m²
• Landscape Pool: 295 cd/m²

There's no visible difference in HDR brightness when using Game Mode, so you don't have to worry about trading in brightness for performance. Unlike Movie Mode, you can't enable the 'Dynamic Contrast' setting while using the TV's dedicated gaming mode.

The Hisense U65QF has great SDR brightness. Smaller areas of brightness have higher luminance than entirely well-lit scenes, but the TV is bright enough during all scenes to overcome glare from indirect lighting. This TV is much brighter than competing models like the Samsung Q7F 2025. 

The Hisense U65QF has good contrast. Its native contrast is just decent, but with local dimming set to 'High,' the TV displays blacks that are deep in most contexts, even when bright highlights are also on the screen.

The TV has decent lighting zone precision. There's some noticeable blooming around subtitles and smaller highlights when displayed against a black background, which does affect the deepness of blacks during certain dark scenes. 

The TV has mediocre lighting zone transitions, which is noticeable with fast-moving content. There's visible haloing, the front and back edges of bright objects are dimmer as they move across the screen, and bright objects show a flicker-type effect when they move very quickly. 

There's no noticeable difference in dark scene performance when the TV is in Game Mode.

The Hisense U65QF has mediocre black uniformity. With local dimming disabled, the TV has apparent cloudiness across the screen. With local dimming enabled, blacks are deep, but there's noticeable blooming and cloudiness around some highlights.

The TV has decent SDR color volume. Like almost any TV, it covers the full range of colors in the BT.709 color space, but it also has very good coverage of the wider DCI-P3 color space. It has mediocre coverage of the widest BT.2020 color space, as its color volume isn't good enough to display most colors.

The Hisense U65QF has decent HDR color volume. Most dark, saturated colors are displayed well, but it struggles a bit with bright whites and most bright colors. It's still good enough for a vibrant viewing experience, but very bright colors don't pop off the screen as much as they do on this TV's higher-end sibling, the Hisense U75QG. 

The Hisense U65QF has great SDR pre-calibration accuracy. Gamma is pretty close to 2.2, but most scenes are displayed darker than intended. Its white balance is outstanding, but reds are a bit underrepresented in most grays, which contributes to the TV's overly cool color temperature. Still, colors have great accuracy overall, with only minor errors that most people won't notice. This TV gives you a mostly accurate image out of the box. 

The TV has outstanding SDR color accuracy after calibration. Any inaccuracies with white balance, color temperature, and gamma are essentially gone. Colors have amazing accuracy overall, with only minor inaccuracies in well-saturated reds that most people won't notice. 

See our full calibration settings.

The Hisense U65QF has decent HDR accuracy before calibration. Blues are overrepresented in most shades of gray while reds are underrepresented, which makes the TV's color temperature a lot cooler than the industry standard 6500K. Colors still have good accuracy overall, but warmer colors have mapping errors and are undersaturated.

Although Filmmaker Mode is usually the best option for an accurate image out of the box, Movie Mode is actually the most accurate HDR setting on this TV. For comparison, take a look at our results using FMM.

The TV has very good HDR accuracy after calibration. White balance and overall color accuracy has improved, and although the TV's color temperature is now closer to 6500K, it's still noticeably too cool. Calibrating the TV doesn't make a massive difference in HDR color accuracy, but color enthusiasts will likely want to get it calibrated for the most accurate image possible from this model.

The Hisense U65QF has poor PQ EOTF tracking. Almost everything is displayed drastically brighter than intended, so this isn't a TV that stays true to the content creator's intent in HDR. The TV tracks the PQ EOTF curve much closer with a standardized 10% window, but this isn't indicative of real-world usage, since highlights in HDR content don't take up exactly 10% of the screen. There's a gradual roll-off near the TV's peak brightness when displaying 4000 nit content to help maintain details in specular highlights.

The TV does a good job cleaning up artifacts in low-quality content. Most artifacts in heavily compressed content are removed, but there's a loss of detail. 

The Hisense U65QF does a good job at upscaling low-resolution content like DVDs or lower-resolution streams. The image is sharp enough to enjoy, but finer details are hard to make out. 

The TV has satisfactory HDR gradient handling. There's noticeable banding in greens, dark grays, dark reds, and dark blues, and but other color gradients have minimal banding.

The Hisense U65QG has low input lag overall. At the TV's maximum refresh rate of 144Hz, the input lag is very low, which is great for gamers who primarily play PVP titles. You also still get low input lag at 60Hz and 120Hz, so you get a responsive gaming experience at all refresh rates. 

The Hisense U65QF supports all common resolutions up to 4k @ 144Hz, and it supports chroma 4:4:4, so it has great compatibility with gaming consoles and PCs. 

The TV supports FreeSync, HDMI Forum VRR, and is G-SYNC compatible, ensuring a nearly tear-free gaming experience from any VRR-enabled source. It works well across the TV's entire refresh rate range and supports sources with Low-Frame-Compensation (LFC), which ensures your games remain nearly tear-free even when your frame rate drops very low.

Unfortunately, like many other Hisense TVs, it has a response time issue with VRR enabled. There are different overdrive settings above and below 71Hz, so you see inconsistent behavior when your frame rate hovers around 71 fps. 

The Hisense U65QF has mediocre pixel transitions at its maximum refresh rate of 144Hz. Transitions to and from near-blacks are the slowest, so you see some black smearing during dark scene transitions. There's noticeable blur behind all fast motion, but it's not too bad for an LED model. 

The TV has okay pixel transitions at 120Hz. It's better than at 144Hz, but transitions are still somewhat slow across the board, which leads to fast motion looking blurry, although it's usable. You still see black smearing when transitioning from black states.

The TV has okay pixel transitions at 60Hz. Transitions are still somewhat slow across the board, and there's persistence blur, which leads to fast motion looking blurry. 

The TV is fully compatible with everything the PS5 offers, like 1440p @ 120Hz and 4k @ 120Hz, as well as HDMI Forum VRR. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to worry about manually switching to Game Mode to get the lowest input lag.

The TV is fully compatible with everything the Xbox Series X|S offers, including 4k @ 120Hz, HDMI Forum VRR, FreeSync Premium Pro, and Dolby Vision gaming. It also supports Auto Low Latency Mode, so you don't have to worry about manually switching to Game Mode to get the lowest input lag. 1440p @ 120Hz only works if you force the resolution in the override settings, and doing that locks you out of using VRR. 

Due to the TV's quick response time, there's some minor stutter when watching movies or shows that's most apparent in slow panning shots, but it's not too bad and not everyone will notice it.

The TV automatically removes judder from 24Hz sources. To remove judder from 60p/60i sources, 'Motion Processing' must be set to 'Film.'

The Hisense U65QF has a very good response time for minimal blur behind fast-moving objects when watching most types of content.

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

This TV has an optional motion interpolation feature to improve the clarity of motion, but it doesn't work very well. Even slower-moving scenes have some noticeable artifacts present. In faster-moving scenes, it really struggles, and there are distracting artifacts and haloing. Although the TV's motion interpolation leaves a lot to be desired, you can lightly use the setting to mitigate some stutter if you're bothered by it.

The Hisense U65QF has inadequate direct reflection handling. Direct light sources like a lamp or window opposite your screen are very noticeable since the TV barely reduces the intensity of those reflections.

There's only some minor black level raise in a room with ambient lighting, so you still get deep blacks with your lights turned on.

The total reflected light of this TV is unremarkable. You easily see reflections on your screen during dark scenes when viewed in a bright room, and there's some obvious light banding present, which is distracting.

The TV's perceived color volume in a bright room is good. Colors barely lose any saturation when they're exposed to light, so you still get punchy colors in a well-lit room.

The TV has an alright viewing angle. The image looks mostly consistent from a slight angle, but there's gamma shifting, black level raise, brightness loss, and color washout that worsens the further you move off-center. Since image quality is noticeably degraded at an aggressive angle, the TV isn't a very good choice for wide seating arrangements. 

The Hisense U65QF has okay gray uniformity. There's some visible dirty screen effect towards the middle of the screen, and the corners of the screen are dimmer than the rest of the image. On a near-black screen, there are brighter splotches around the panel, leading to some parts being a bit brighter than the rest. 

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.

HDMI ports 3 and 4 support the full 48Gbps bandwidth of HDMI 2.1, while HDMI 1 and 2 are limited to HDMI 2.0 bandwidth. HDMI 1 is the eARC port, which is great if you have a soundbar and multiple consoles that you want to plug into the TV. However, this isn't good for those with an HDMI 2.1 capable receiver who need a full bandwidth HDMI port that is also the eARC port. 

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 U65QF has a pretty standard design. It's mostly made of cheap-feeling plastic, but still looks modern. 

The two feet are made of plastic, but unlike similar TVs like the TCL QM6K, they can't be adjusted. The footprint of the 65-inch stand is 44" x 11.7".

The feet only lift the TV about 2.17 inches, so thicker soundbars do block the bottom portion of the screen. 

The back is made of plastic and has a grid-like pattern that resembles a lot of Sony TVs. All of the inputs are side-facing, but they're in a recessed cutout that makes them a bit hard to access if you have it mounted to a wall. Unfortunately, there's no clips or grooves to help with cable management. 

The TV has decent build-quality. It's made of cheap-feeling plastic, but it has good stability, and our unit was free from any quality control problems. 

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 the backlight slider is very slow to respond to your inputs, and you can't hold it down to quickly up your brightness. 

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
• Power cable

The TV has an okay frequency response. There's barely any meaningful bass, but the sound profile is balanced enough for dialogue to be clear at moderate volume levels. With the TV at maximum volume, the sound profile loses balance. This makes dialogue harder to understand, especially during action scenes.