Hisense TV with Freely. UPDATED: Now returning and looking for advice.

flaneurs_lobster

this is the whole issue. it appears to be defaulting to aerial when internet would be the best option. i havn't found a way to make this happen hence removing the aerial from the TV.

In the absence of a way to make this choice I suspect that the default will always be "Aerial" - the reason being that this choice is always "free", choosing "Internet" may have a cost implication if not using an unlimited source.

Imagine the howling if someone unwittingly runs up a £££ bill streaming M@FS via a mobile hotspot.

"..but, but, it says FREEly!.."

RumRat

I doubt you will solve it….You can find the problem all over the internet with dissatisfied Hisense buyers who bought them for the Freely app. The TV always seems to default to the aerial when connected. Maybe, as suggested, a separate box for Freely may give a better result than Hisense TV. This may be one of the reasons the higher end TV's haven't implemented it yet.

Personally I don't see the point, You can stream most channels anyway via the various TV apps. My experience with Freely has been a totally underwhelming experience, even when it 'works'.

Neil_Jones

I bought a TCL TV late last year that happened to have Freely in, but I didn't buy it for Freely, the only reason I bought a telly at all was because my previous one packed up and I got it cheap on a Prime Day sale.

The Freely app lasted about a month before I got rid of it, and now use the Fire TV Live EPG. It isn't as pretty but it works. The Freely app was, well crap basically and the slowest app of everything else on the telly.

I found Freely channel 37 was using the aerial, not the Freely service before I dumped the app so whether its changed in the meantime I couldn't say…

pfpf

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82014783#Comment_82014783

could i ask which TCL model you bought and are you happy with it?

all: i am sending this Hisense back. i was quite happy to run the set without an aerial and live with that, but i have discovered it has a rather big issue with motion blur and odd blockiness around movement. settings seem to clear it and then it comes back.

i'll be honest, i didn't do a lot of research and didn't know the things i have experienced with this TV were a "thing", i didn't spend a lot, previous Samsung TV was 15 years old so didn't have such worries :p

i was thinking of trying a TCL 50C6K. somewhere between what i have and an expensive OLED. what i want more than anything is NO motion blur, whats the cost to ensure that? i can't keep buying TV's and returning them.

Neil_Jones

I bought a TCL 43PF650K in November last year.
The whole Freely thing as mentioned drove me up the wall, so I got rid of it, and the TV now bugs me every time I switch it on about "channel conflicts". Do it, does it again on the next boot. Seems it doesn't quite know how to cope without the key Freely app on it which will come back on a channel rescan. The Freely app was the slowest app on the TV.

The sound is basically crap, fluctuates wildly across a reboot I had better quality from my previous TV. I probably should buy a soundbar.
The viewing angle is crap unless you're looking at it straight on.

It does the job, it acts a TV and as I got it effectively a third off the the RRP because of the Prime Day sale, I would have been disappointed had I paid full price for it (I paid £187, RRP is £279), and because I had a Fire Stick previously there was no learning curve as the TV runs Fire TV, just had to sign into apps again. Overall I'm happier than I could have been.

Concept of motion blur and AI picture stuff if it bothers you that much you'd probably do better to go somewhere where you can see and maybe play with it as opposed to static pictures on somewhere like Amazon. I had a Hisense TV that IIRC applied all the motion blur/smoothing/colours/ stuff on a per input basis. I'd never seen that before, and the TV I had before this one did the same thing so I was prepared for it that time :)

dnpark38

Visited a house today and they had an Hiscence Freely Tv on ch 3 ITV! with the rugby on fro Wales vs Fiji.

Very poor picture and very noticeable grass a different colour on the left. Also picture kept freezing.

Now another thing I thought ITV did not put adverts on during sporting events EG. Football. On wide angle camera they superimposed 3 or 4 adverts. most distracting.

flaneurs_lobster

Now another thing I thought ITV did not put adverts on during sporting events EG. Football. On wide angle camera they superimposed 3 or 4 adverts. most distracting.

Can't say I was glued to the match for all 80, but I watched that game via ITVX, don't recall any of that split-screen advertising that they had during the 6 Nations.

BBC sites says this

In-play, in-picture adverts will not be part of ITV's coverage of the Nations Championship in July, but the 20-second slots, shown before a scrum, are set to return for the November Tests and next year's Six Nations.

The abundance of opportunities in ITV's schedule in July, with an expanded 48-team football World Cup dominating the airwaves, means advertisers' spending has been directed elsewhere.

JSmithy45AD

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82058493#Comment_82058493

Welcome to the modern world. The wife was watching the T20 cricket on 5 earlier and they slap an advert in at each and every change of ends. When she was switching between that and the rugby, the adverts on the field and at either end (are they real or CGI?) were so distracting from the game that she gave up on both.

flaneurs_lobster

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82058549#Comment_82058549

I'm watching the RSAvsENG game on ITVX - with a big telly and if you look hard you can tell that the big ads on the field are virtual (they wobble a bit on closeups and aren't visible at all in the full arena overhead drone shots).

The moving perimeter board advertising (my own particular hate) seems to be physical LEDS although there are sports/coverage where these are virtual too. The effect of using virtual moving images looks dreadful when I've seen it in action on TV but maybe the tech is a little more refined now.