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 :)