I noticed a few people here own the hisense tv. do you recommend them or are they problematic? I was considering one of them but do not know much about them. tia.
I wouldn't hesitate to buy one. My current 55" HiSense is their economy model, MSRP was $349 (I think.) My wife won it at a company Christmas party in 2019. It's a basic TV with a decent, though not great, picture. We have an LG LCD TV from 2014 that has a much better picture. Mine's a Roku model but HiSense also has TV's with the Google TV operating system.
In fact, I was looking at their latest model, the U8H along with the TCL S655, debating which one to get. If I were to get a TV with a mini-LED screen it would be one of these two. Unbeatable price to quality ratio.
https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/hisense
My HiSense was from Target and reading the reviews it seems there have been some problems with my model. (Then again, based on their complaints some of the negative reviewers might be challenged by turning on a 3-way table lamp!) Again, mine is the cheapest 55" HiSense Roku TV available. It was on sale on Black Friday for $298 the same year my wife won hers.
I've only had a couple of weird problems with it in the three years I've had it. One time it wouldn't turn on, not by using the remote, not by using the power button on the unit itself. Unplugged the TV for 1 minute, plugged back in and all was normal again.
Another time I woke up in bed at 3 am and thought I heard conversations downstairs. Alarmed, I nervously crept down the stairs. I quickly deduced the TV was on in the basement. I went into the basement and shut it off. Next night there was a repeat performance, this time at around 1 am. Repeated my solution. Next day I Googled the problem and found that low batteries can cause this phenomena. I replaced the batteries and the ghostly visitors watching my TV at night had fled.
By the way, Wal Mart has their own private branded economy TV line named Onn. From what I can see they some of them appear to be rebranded HiSense models.
I've gotten the bug to get an OLED TV, so the HiSense and TCL models aren't on my radar right now.