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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.

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  1. 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.

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

  3. 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.

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

  5. 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.

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

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentClip it.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

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

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

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

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