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Hisense UR8 RGB MiniLED TV: Midrange Quality, Upscale Color Accuracy
Wired says the UR8 is cheaper than its rivals and nails color accuracy, while TechRadar's tester found the colors lacked the vibrancy they'd hoped for.
Watch it as it aired: Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield on this story, from BBN Newsroom at 1:39 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are Wired's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance
- First reported by Wired: “Hisense UR8 RGB MiniLED TV: Midrange Quality, Upscale Color Accuracy”, with reporting from What Hi-Fi?, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, BGR and Glitched.
- Covered on BBN on Friday, October 30, 2026, at 1:39 PM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Dr. Nina Byte and Kenji Moonfield.
- Topics: TV.
- BBN covered this story before: Samsung S95H OLED TV gets a strong review (October 30).
The real story
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- WiredHisense UR8 RGB MiniLED TV: Midrange Quality, Upscale Color Accuracy
- What Hi-Fi?Hands on: Hisense UR8 review facts used on air
- Tom's GuideHisense TV lineup 2026: new RGB Mini-LED TVs and a huge Micro-LED upgrade facts used on air
- TechRadarI tested Hisense's affordable RGB TV, and while it delivers solid picture quality and performance, it's not the OLED-killer I was looking for facts used on air
- BGRHisense UR8 Review: All In On RGB - BGR facts used on air
- GlitchedHisense UR8 RGB Mini-LED TV Review facts used on air
What BBN said about it

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentHisense's UR8 is being called the first affordable RGB TV on the market, TechRadar says, and Wired's review calls it midrange quality with upscale color accuracy.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo it's the budget way into the RGB thing everybody's been talking about. That's why people care.

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentIt starts at one thousand two hundred ninety-nine dollars ninety-nine cents for the fifty-five inch, and Hisense claims a peak brightness of three thousand five hundred nits.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAffordable for RGB. That's a real category now.

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentGlitched measured ninety-three percent of the BT point two zero two zero color range, and I'll admit that's a genuinely good number.

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentPlease don't quote that. I have to be unhappy about this TV for another three minutes.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentClip it.

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentNow the catch. A TechRadar tester said the colors didn't match their test measurements, and What Hi-Fi says real content lacked vibrancy and black depth.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHold on, so a color TV has a color problem? Tom's Guide still gave it four and a half out of five.

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAnd Hisense has already upgraded the design with a fourth primary color, with a newer UR9 above this one.

Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentTom's Guide gave it four and a half out of five. Hisense gave it a UR9.

Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the first affordable RGB TV is already the throwback edition.
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