I have recently bought a Hisense LTDN40K321 smart TV and a Samsung UE40J5100 and even after Googling for best set up settings the Hisense looks far better than the Samsung out of the box without any tweaking. Was/is the Samsung a bad buy? I have a 32" Samsung and a 22" Samsung and their pictures are pretty good in fact excellent which is why I bout the 40" without seeing it working as I tend to do prior to buying. The picture quality seems wash out, no vibrancy or sharpness. Now I am by no means a TV geek but even to my untrained eye the picture could be better. I am seriously thinking of getting rid of this one and getting something else as I know it will annoy me even though it is a TV that I do not use regularly. Are there any setting for the hisense someone could link to? Although the picture is generally fine it would be interesting to see if a tweak or two could improve it.
Tips on setting up the Hisense are in this review. If you work through reviews for the Samsung you will probably find similar tweaks. I regret buying my Samsung TV last year, while it has an excellent picture improved with a bit of tweaking it suffers badly from lip sync problems on certain channels made more noticeable by using headphones. Samsung promised a firmware upgrade to fix it but they lied. The also arbitrarily remove apps albeit with plenty of annoying warnings. I'd get rid of it, I'll be getting rid of mine in a year or so. If you ever need warranty work on a Samsung device you'll be putting it into the hands of moronic monkeys as Samsung use a company called Anovo to bodge their repairs.
I found the settings for the Samsung but they did not improve the picture quality much at all. I suspect as it was a cheapo £260 then the overall standard of the TV reflected the price. Though the Hisence was only £300 and is much better by far.
That's generally what people are finding dude. Hisense are knocking out cracking sets for really good prices. When we got our 65" the equivalent Samsung or LG would have cost us five grand. We paid £1300 and sold the Freesat box it came with for £200 and it's been an absolutely fantastic set. Samsung are the most reliable TV I've had (mum has had two for knocking on six years with no issues whatsoever) but at the cheaper end of the spectrum there are usually better.
Hisence are hit or miss depending on where your panel is from and not every tv from the same model ships with the same panel. Trusted reviews did a feature on this last year brought 3 of the same model got 2 different panels with one having much better quality of the picture. Your also comparing 4k tv to a 1080p tv, If the 4k tv does not look sharper / vibrancy been higher its doing something wrong even just using upscalled content. It has 4 times the resolution things should be better by that alone. A better comparison would be 4k vs 4k.
