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Ten years after Hisense ULED, ULED X was officially born. In September last year, bearing Hisense's brand-new thinking on picture quality and images over the past decade, a new generation of display technology platform ULED X was officially released.

The "X" in "ULED X" represents reference-level picture quality technology, reference-level picture quality benchmarking products, and picture quality standards based on user experience. It is reported that based on the research on the real lighting environment of tens of thousands of home users, Hisense has been comprehensively upgraded from the three dimensions of backlight, screen and chip algorithm to provide users with the best display effect of the reference image.

With its joint debut, Hisense TV E8H equipped with this technology platform, with its "reference image" picture quality performance, Hisense TV E8H once topped the JD.com household flat screen TV list TOP1, becoming a dark horse product in the current high-end color TV market.

After a little more than half a year, the ULED X platform ushered in another important new product-on March 23, Hisense TV E8K series was officially released. Hisense TV E8K has 85-inch and 100-inch versions, both of which are equipped with 4K 144Hz native high-brush screen, support 16bits sense and control ambient light, 99% DCI-P3 color gamut, peak brightness 1600 nits.

It is worth mentioning that the most backlit partition founder Hisense made another breakthrough this time. The new E8K 100-inch version is the industry's first thousand-grade 100-inch MiniLED TV, achieving up to 1620 fine light control zones, while the 85-inch version also reached 1296 zones.

In addition, Hisense TV E8K also supports a new ambient light sensing intelligent technology, which can sense the brightness and color temperature changes of ambient light in real time, realize 16bits sensing and control ambient light, and achieve more accurate light and color in different ambient light scenes.

I believe many friends are very interested in this new flagship TV. CTOnews.com has got the 85-inch version of Hisense TV E8K. Needless to say, we will now present you with the evaluation experience of this super-large screen TV with thousands of divisions and picture quality zui.

First, the design chapter or start with the design.

The first impression of the 85-inch version of Hisense TV E8K is that it is large. The shock and telepresence brought by the large screen is far more than that of the traditional 65-inch TV, because the size of the TV screen is diagonal, so even compared with the 75-inch TV, the Hisense TV E8K is a whole circle bigger.

In detail design, Hisense E8K takes drilling and cutting aesthetics as the design inspiration, adopts batch flower process design, oversized size with narrow metal frame, strong sense of presence after bright screen, drilling and cutting bright edge makes light and shadow unpredictable, and the sense of refinement increases a lot. The bottom frame is also inlaid with ice sea blue logo on both sides, showing high-end dignity.

The interface includes cable TV input, digital RF interface, analog RF interface, 2 full blood HDMI2.1 (4K@144Hz), 1 HDMI2.1 (4K@60Hz) and 1 USB 2.0,1 USB 3.0and so on.

It is worth mentioning that the Hisense E8K is also equipped with 10mm hangers, which can be more close to the wall than ordinary televisions by reducing 20mm. After all, such a large screen size, more attached to the wall means stronger integrity and a thin effect like a curtain.

There is no need to worry about this, on the one hand, Hisense provides free survey and installation services, on the other hand, after CTOnews.com measurement, Hisense E8K 85-inch TV belt packaging can easily enter and exit the elevator, but the author still suggests that the whole process should be handed over to professionals, you just need to wait at home for installation.

Second, screen light control note: the dynamic picture is for demonstration only and does not represent the real color effect.

At present, the high-end TV product line is mainly divided into Mini LED, OLED, and Hisense's main ULED technology platform. OLED has the advantages of high color gamut, high contrast and high response speed, but in the TV market, OLED still has problems such as low yield and high cost, and due to self-luminous characteristics, such as "screen burning" and other problems have not been solved.

Mini LED, which combines the display advantages of traditional LCD and OLED, also has the characteristics of high brightness, high color gamut and high contrast. Compared with OLED, Mini LED also has a series of advantages, such as higher global brightness, long life, no panel restriction, high yield and so on.

Hisense E8K is a Mini LED TV equipped with Hisense ULED X display technology platform, with the advantages of ULED and Mini LED. Mini LED microns the traditional LED design structure. In the past, a LED TV may have dozens of LED lights, but now it can put thousands of lights. In this way, Mini LED has better color performance, dynamic range and contrast. But at the same time, with the reduction of lamp beads and the increase of density, the ability of light control has become the key to determine the picture quality of Mini LED TV.

The core factor of light control is partition + picture quality chip. It should be emphasized that, after all, it is a ULED X display technology platform product. Hisense E8K uses a tailor-made Mini full-array dynamic backlight control system, which increases the number of Mini partitions to an astonishing 1620! Even the 85-inch version of the CTOnews.com test reached an astonishing 1296 partitions.

You may see a lot of high-end TV will advertise that they have used a hundred-level partition, and occasionally there are thousand-level partition products, but it is also a very rare high-end flagship product.

According to official data, the light control area of Hisense E8K is only 60% of that of ordinary Mini LED TVs. We know that the smaller the light control area of a single area, the more outstanding the light control and the more delicate the picture quality.

So, what does 1296 partition mean? It means that Hisense E8K has an extremely strong light control ability, which can make every light and shadow accurate and excellent.

Picture quality chip, China's only show light and shadow hard power if the thousand-level partition is the light and shadow magician-Hisense's winning weapon, then the picture quality chip is Hisense's exclusive magic weapon. As we all know, Hisense is the only Chinese TV brand with picture quality chip, and this time it is equipped with Xin Core X picture quality chip master version for the new E8K. The master version of Xinxin X picture quality chip can cooperatively drive 405 distributed driver chips. compared with the MiniLED products with single chip global light control, Hisense's light control response speed is also faster, achieving a display effect comparable to that of OLED TV.

By playing the light control video, CTOnews.com experienced the light control performance of Hisense E8K, as shown in the following dynamic picture, after all, it is a product with 1296 zones, halo, "light leakage" and other phenomena do not exist in this product.

When there is a picture with strong light and dark contrast, such as neon lights at night, there is no "halo" around the color picture, the black area of the picture is still dark, and the overall picture is quite transparent and immersive.

Even if the camera is moved to the side of the TV to watch, there is also the feeling that the ordinary MiniLED TV brightness "overflow" causes the picture to become dirty, the picture still has a full three-dimensional sense, and the color area is still bright and bright.

Hisense E8K extremely strong black control ability also left a deep impression on the author, when we open the pure black screen, showing a "dead black" effect, and there is no ordinary MiniLED TV black gray, white, uneven brightness.

III. Picture quality experience Note: uploading pictures and motion pictures are for demonstration only and do not represent the real picture quality.

After talking about the light control effect of Hisense E8K, let's talk about its basic picture quality performance.

The first is the parameters, including the original 4K 144Hz, 16bits sense-controlled ambient light, 99% DCI-P3 color gamut (85 inches), and peak brightness of 1600 nits.

Let's first talk about 16bits's sensitive ambient light. Last year, Hisense realized 16bits environmental light control in the industry for the first time on the first generation of ULED X products. In 2023, through upgrading the photosensitive system and algorithm innovation, Hisense further upgraded 16bits environmental light control to 16bits sensitive ambient light. Hisense E8K through Xin Core X image quality chip master version to achieve 1024 × 64 level fine dimming, compared with the traditional 4096 level dimming, mentioned 16 times, it brings the most obvious experience advantage; at the same time, according to the user's viewing position, light and shade, and color temperature for image quality adjustment, that is, in any environment, any light, or even any content, Hisense E8K can provide the best reference level image.

In addition, thanks to the intelligent perception of ambient light, Hisense E8K can perceive brightness and restore the texture of HDR movies and games based on user scenes, making the light and color in the screen more accurate.

The second is the stable peak brightness of 1600nits. Compared with the 1000nits brightness of ordinary Mini LED, the peak brightness of 1600nits can exceed the image of HDR standard (0.005nit-1000nit) and has the ability of extreme dynamic range of XDR. It should be emphasized that last year, ULED X proposed a stable peak brightness, different from the instantaneous brightness, ULED X perfectly meets the requirements of XDR display.

We have made a set of HDR videos in which the center brightness of the pure white box can easily reach 1839.6nit, which has exceeded the official 1600nit, which proves that the brightness of Hisense E8K is really high.

Sufficient brightness also ensures that even on a sunny afternoon, when the light shines directly into the living room, you can see clearly the contents of the screen without having to close the curtains.

When we play some HDR videos, the ultra-high screen brightness can show more highlight details, the picture is very layered, and the visual experience is directly full. And Hisense TV E8K has XDR extreme dynamic range, can achieve closer to the real world display effect, showing far beyond the HDR color and brightness range, to solve the HDR often encounter dark scene picture details lost, bright scene picture is not bright enough.

For example, in the following picture, when the sun comes out, it presents a natural environment of ultra-high and low light ratio, this strong high-low contrast brings a very shocking visual experience, and more importantly, in the highlight part of the sky, there is no color fault.

Next, CTOnews.com tests the gamut coverage of Hisense E8K through a colorimeter, as shown in the following figure:

After CTOnews.com measurement, Hisense TV E8K reached 99.3% DCI-P3, which also exceeded the official claim of 99%.

Like Hisense E8H, Hisense TV E8K also supports AI Color color space adaptation, opening DCI-P3, BT.709, BT.2020 and other color spaces. By setting-image-video signal-color space, you can adjust the color space according to your own needs.

The following is the familiar measurement link of 4K map:

Show pure color, the overall effect of Hisense E8K is relatively flat, no local color deviation is found.

256 grayscale pictures and 4K TV tone hierarchical restoration test chart, Hisense E8K black to white gray scale transition is very delicate and natural, there is no obvious fault phenomenon.

Once again, we need to emphasize that these presented pictures are taken by cameras, and uploaded with compression and digital conversion, so they are for reference only and do not represent the true picture quality of Hisense E8K.

Finally, the 4K resolution test, we enlarge the local point of view, the smallest text can also show clearly, blue arrow (1080p), red arrow (4K) point to the area can be fully displayed, the text does not appear "paste" phenomenon.

In addition, Hisense TV E8K visual angle is very excellent, different angles, the picture color does not appear obvious drift phenomenon.

In terms of the author's subjective feelings during the experience, the comprehensive performance of the Hisense E8K picture quality is quite excellent, and it is at the same level as the previously measured E8H, such as superior picture brightness and noon in the direct sunlight in the living room. You don't have to worry too much about picture reflection and so on.

For example, when playing some HDR videos, the look and feel is very transparent, the bright field is bright enough and not too exposed, and the dark field details are full.

At the same time, Hisense E8K color pinch is also very in place, although not as bright as OLED, but still has a pretty good visual impact, different light environment, color can also ensure a stable state. Similarly, the Hisense E8K perspective is also excellent, a variety of extreme angles, there will not be a "color bias" problem.

Fourth, in terms of comprehensive experience audio, Hisense E8K has designed a bilateral sound surround sound system, which expands the sound field width to twice that of ordinary TV and is equipped with Hi-Sound pro Teana engine.

Specifically, Hisense E8K speaker system has 9 sound units, a total of 77W high power, while supporting DOLBY ATMOS (Dolby panoramic sound). It can also be combined with the content of the picture to present dynamic sound effects and create real sound effects.

The author briefly recorded the video of Hisense E8K playing "Ferry" and suggested that you put on headphones to experience it.

Video:

In terms of the actual sense of hearing, the bass of Hisense E8K is relatively surging, the strength is relatively full, and the listening feeling is very comfortable. For example, the drums in the early stage of "Ferry" are very extended, neither stuffy nor dry; the vocal part is also relatively clear and round. At the same time, 77W high power brings a very shocking sound effect, which can bring sufficient telepresence to the user's audio-visual experience.

In other aspects, Hisense E8K is also equipped with two full-blooded HDMI2.1 interfaces, including HDMI2.1 (4K@144/120Hz) * 2 and HDMI2.1 (4K@60Hz) * 1, as well as various game enhancements, including support for ALLM automatic low latency, support for VRR variable refresh rate, support for Freesync anti-tearing, support for external USB cameras, and so on.

For example, when connecting to PS5 and other game consoles through HDMI port 2.1, the system will automatically open the "game console", and the image mode, frame rate, VRR open status can be seen directly on the page, which is also a rare configuration point in the intelligent TV field to specifically optimize the game scene. For gamers, this intuitive function is very intimate and practical.

For example, after connecting to the PS5 through the HDMI2.1 interface, the TV will automatically recognize the device and instantly display the device type and real-time frame rate. Click the menu button of the remote control, and you can quickly exhale these game-related picture settings from the bottom of the TV, including: HDMI enhancement, low delay setting, adaptive frame rate, dark field detail enhancement, and so on.

Take the dark field detail enhancement as an example, after opening, the screen should be significantly brighter. For some FPS games, this function is very practical and can help players quickly find enemies in the dark.

In addition, although the current 144Hz source is very few, but in fact this is not the case, on the one hand, 144Hz can perfectly adapt to sub-era consoles and games, so that gamers have a more enjoyable game experience, on the other hand, a TV will often be used for many years, 144Hz screen can be regarded as a pre-configuration "reserve", eliminating the worry that the configuration is not enough in the next few years.

As a high-end flagship product, Hisense E8K naturally carries a flagship chip, MediaTek MT 9653, which uses a quad-core A73 processor, a 42% improvement over A55 processor performance for 2*Mali-G52, and provides 4GB+64GB super memory and memory (100inch for 4GB+128GB), as well as WiFi 5 network support (100inch for WiFi 6). Large storage means that users can download more third-party App without worrying about insufficient storage, and MT9653 also provides strong performance support for multi-tasking and daily interaction.

In terms of interaction, the UI design language commonly used in large screen TV is used, and the home page provides resources such as mine, VIP, TV series, movies, variety shows, children, education, music, fitness, applications, life, sound and so on.

The author likes the "dialect recognition" function of Hisense E8K, including supporting the recognition of 24 dialects and realizing the language dialogue of 6 dialects at the same time, as long as you press and hold the voice recognition button on the remote control, even for the elderly who are not familiar with digital products at home, there won't be a problem.

It is worth mentioning that, through the later OTA, the voice assistant of Hisense E8K will also be upgraded to an exclusive digital butler, supporting uploading images and inputting sound, and then you can generate your own digital image customization.

In terms of application ecology, Hisense E8K includes Wechat TV, family photo album, QQ Music, AI somatosensory, calendar, family private cloud, small gathering picture, family message board, video call, Hi music, small gathering butler, earthquake warning and other TV applications, as well as supporting the download of third-party applications.

In terms of interaction, Hisense E8K supports mobile interaction. The mobile terminal downloads "Ju Liang" App, and after logging in to the Ju Liang account, you can control the TV through the same account and the same network. "Ju Liang" App also provides video, music, file, photo and other screen casting options, as well as video call, app management, small gathering at home, AI TV wall and other functions.

Written in the end: as the aggregator of Hisense's innovation in optical system, image processing technology and display technology in the past ten years, ULED X represents Hisense's ultimate exploration in picture quality images. As a new flagship TV product of ULED X platform, Hisense E8K has become a new TV product with benchmarking again with its core technical advantages such as 1000-level Mini partition, 16bits sensing and controlling ambient light and 1600nit peak brightness, leading the whole industry to the XDR era.

More importantly, Hisense E8K also provides a 100-inch screen size, so that those families who pursue super-large screen, the next Hisense E8K must be an unavoidable choice.

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