# Hisense TV

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Hisense TV and 20 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Hisense TVs as good value for the money and a well regarded mid-tier brand. Critics most often cite ads on the home screen, data collection and tracking, and reliability problems.

## Why people recommend it

- Best value for the money (2 comments): "It was the best bang for my bucks when I bought it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333193)) "Worth it for the price though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323102))

## What people warn about

- Ads and adware on home screen (4 comments): "You can buy a $5k TV and its startup time, auto-play adware at the Home Screen, constant OS popup notification BS, etc are almost universal." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323178)) "the ads are rolled out to customers a long time after purchase to escape the return window" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340127)) "The implicit contract when you buy from Hisense is that you'll see ads." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340908))
- Microphone and viewing data collection (3 comments): "it's a straightforward CFAA violation - if laws actually applied to corpos." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340664)) "They all use Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) and collect profiling data" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49613944)) "Also turn on the microphone in the background (what my Hisense tv does)." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341451))
- Power supply and panel failures (3 comments): "did they ever make a model that haven’t had its power supply die after about 4 years?" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340226)) "developing really bad white spots just outside the warranty period" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323710)) "power supplies giving up on Hisense TVs" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46089910))
- Seen as a budget brand (3 comments): "If you deliberately buy a bargain brand Chinese television, you earned the consequences of that decision." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341043)) "Hisense has never operated at the top end of the spectrum." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323765)) "Hisense is garbage and actively user hostile." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343523))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [LG smart TV](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lg-smart-tv.md): 57 recommend
- [Samsung TV](https://hackerapproved.com/p/samsung-tv.md): 37 recommend
- [Sony Bravia TV](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sony-bravia-tv.md): 19 recommend
- [TCL TV](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tcl-tv.md): 17 recommend
- [Roku TV](https://hackerapproved.com/p/roku-tv.md): 14 recommend

## Where to get it

- [See price on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Hisense+4K+TV&tag=hackerapprove-20) (affiliate link)
- [Official site](https://www.hisense.com/us/en)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Hisense TV", https://hackerapproved.com/p/hisense-tv/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).