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I'm starting to think that it is a crapshoot. I like my upper end TCL a lot and I'm a big roku fan. I HATE my low end Hisense. It has a coil whine. The built in speakers are shit. The android tv just locks up. And it will come on in the middle of the night (luckily it is in another room but if I wake up in the middle of the night and it has turned on I can see the light from it). But all the reviews say Hisense is good.

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Manufactures are very good at cost cutting / value engineering. A friend bought multiple low end hisense panels for business bought over multiple years, basically same 50inch model from costco, but each year the hardware gets noticably revised. Thinner legs, 4 buttons replaced by single 5 way switch, a mold change to remove a few extra square cm of plastic etc. No idea what was going on inside.

I like my HiSense 65 Android TV, and used to love it before the app providers started screwing with app updates (Netflix! Prime!). And the audio data stream/output conversion could do a little better to my home theater, but its fast enough, have bluetooth keyboard for quick searches/data entry. I think it is stupid that I cannot easily find a no-cost, dumb, Android photo screen saver for it (I think it ostensibly would rob from some Android app developer/Google Photos/Google Home). But it appears I can side load stuff, but I like to keep things clean. Anyhow, my original 60 Vizio was great, but died early b/c of known bad engineering of backlight power supply. But I like this even better.

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