Hisense 65A6EGTUK (65 Inch) 4K UHD Smart TV, with Dolby Vision HDR, DTS Virtual X, Youtube, Netflix HS214 2.1Ch All- In-One 108W Soundbar with Built-In Subwoofer, Operating System VIDAA

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There’s a clean interface that presents content in an easy-to-understand fashion, with simple navigation. As a result, the overall SDR picture performance is generally impressive, with images that appear well defined and colours that look natural. Additionally, there’s Freeview Play, which not only means you get all the UK TV catch-up services but ensures they are seamlessly integrated into the TV guide.

Thankfully the Cinema Night mode immediately addresses these inaccuracies, with an excellent greyscale performance and an average DeltaE colour variance score of 1.

As you would expect from a modern TV, the slim chassis precludes the use of larger speakers, and the amplification is clearly limited. The apps appear along the centre of the home screen, and above this is content related to the app currently highlighted. It also has a quad-core processor providing sufficient power to ensure a responsive user experience. In most other respects there’s little to complain about from this budget offering, although the sound quality is mediocre. Game Mode: Game mode boosts your chances of scoring legendary wins by significantly reducing input lag.

On the downside, the VA panel does have very limited optimal viewing angles, so you really need to be sat directly in front of the TV. The Hisense A6G includes a pair of downward-firing speakers, each of which has 8W of built-in amplification.While this isn’t surprising for a budget TV, it doesn’t necessarily mean the HDR performance will be bad – as long as the tone-mapping is good. When it comes to HDR10 content, the A6G mapped the colours quite well but was clearly clipping the highlights.

There’s some blurring on fast motion like sport, and the TV lacks the necessary frame interpolation features to address this, but it handles 24p content without introducing judder, and movies retain a pleasing film-like quality.Ultra HD offers 4x more pixels than Full HD whilst HDR makes blacks darker, whites brighter and enhances contrast.

As a result, the audio performance is perfunctory at best, and the reality is that even a simple single-unit soundbar will deliver a higher quality sonic experience with content like TV shows, movies and games. The A6G does support DTS Virtual:X, which is designed to give audio greater dimensionality, but the effectiveness of this processing is minimal.For the Gamer we have Auto Low Latency Mode (ALLM) which ensures smooth, lag-free and uninterrupted viewing and interaction. In the more accurate Cinema mode, this luminance drops to 250cd/m² on both a 10% and a full-field pattern.