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All the buttons are present and correct, including direct access to Netflix, YouTube, Rakuten TV, Prime Video and Freeview Play. 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.
Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more. When it comes to HDR10 content, the A6G mapped the colours quite well but was clearly clipping the highlights. There’s some good upscaling and processing as well, allowing the A6G to get the best out of lower resolution content, retaining as much detail as possible and producing an artefact-free image. As you would expect from a modern TV, the slim chassis precludes the use of larger speakers, and the amplification is clearly limited. There’s a clean interface that presents content in an easy-to-understand fashion, with simple navigation.
The apps appear along the centre of the home screen, and above this is content related to the app currently highlighted. In most other respects there’s little to complain about from this budget offering, although the sound quality is mediocre. For a start, it’s very dim for an HDR TV, with a peak brightness of around 300cd/m² on both a 10% window and full-field in Dynamic mode. The Hisense A6G includes a pair of downward-firing speakers, each of which has 8W of built-in amplification. On the plus side, the VA panel delivers a contrast ratio of 2,400:1, which is reasonable for an LCD display.
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. Hisense has included Dolby Vision support, and it’s with less capable displays like the A6G’s that the format’s dynamic metadata really shows its benefits.The sound bar also comes with three powerful audio modes, Movie, Music, and News, so it would be a perfect companion for your TV. Game Mode: Game mode boosts your chances of scoring legendary wins by significantly reducing input lag.
There’s a good selection of streaming services, including Netflix, Prime Video, YouTube, Britbox and Rakuten TV. 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. It allows HDR content to be mapped more precisely to the display’s capabilities, and watching exactly the same test material in Dolby Vision reveals HDR images free of any clipping and with saturated but natural-looking colours. Design and build quality are good, the remote control classy, and the VIDAA smart platform simple but effective. There’s also a direct LED backlight, and while there’s no form of local dimming, the direct nature of the backlight produces decent screen uniformity.Roku TV Ready: As Roku TV Ready device, the Hisense HS214 All-in-one Soundbar is fully compatible with any Roku Tv through the HDMI (ARC) connection. As a result of this very sensible design choice, they measure 500mm from the edge of the screen, which means there’s no danger of cables poking out of the side when viewed from the front.
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