When comparing Sony A1E OLED 77" (XBR77A1E) vs Hisense H9E Plus 55" (55H9E Plus), the Slant community recommends Hisense H9E Plus 55" (55H9E Plus) for most people. In the question“What are the best TVs?” Hisense H9E Plus 55" (55H9E Plus) is ranked 184th while Sony A1E OLED 77" (XBR77A1E) is ranked 190th. The most important reason people chose Hisense H9E Plus 55" (55H9E Plus) is:
The Hisense H9E Plus offers decent performance while dealing with the non-HDR content thanks to its good overall SDR picture quality. The TV reproduces beautiful images that feature relatively bright and accurate colors as well as some pretty deep blacks. The H9E Plus offers a relatively wide range of vivid and accurate colors. It can reproduce a wide variety of colors thanks to its wide color gamut that measures at around 86% of the DCI-P3 - only the best TVs in this price range can perform on par with the H9E Plus. In the SDR mode, the colors look genuinely bright thanks to the TV's sustained brightness that peaks at around 300 nits. Regarding its dark scene performance, the H9E Plus performs on par with the best TVs in its price bracket thanks to its ability to reproduce uniform and inky blacks. The dark areas look genuinely dark without losing the detail thanks to the TV's high native contrast ratio that measures at 6000:1. Also, blacks don't look washed out thanks to the TV's high black uniformity that measures at around 1.2 %.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Perfect TV for movies and HDR content
The Sony A1E is a 4K OLED TV with perfectly uniform blacks and infinite contrast ratio, achieved by its ability to manipulate pixels individually. This, along with its color uniformity and wide color gamut, gives it exceptional picture quality and makes it the perfect choice for movies. It also has no issues with brightness levels as the panel can reach up to ~650 nits of brightness when playing HDR content, and it handles reflections very well.
Pro Great performance in bright environments
The Sony A1E has a practical peak brightness of ~650nits for both SDR and HDR content — it can sustain this level of brightness when playing content. While the number here isn't imposing compared to some other high-end TVs, the panel of this TV offsets this by being an OLED. It can handle reflections very well and will not have any issues with fighting light in bright environments.
Pro Interface is ads-free
The user interface of modern smart TVs can include some advertisements similar to those on the internet or in a mobile app. The Sony A1E does not include any, and it also has a feature for limiting ads in third-party applications.
Pro Virtually no reflections
The Sony A1E's panel has a glossy finish that handles reflections exceptionally well.
Pro Great ecosystem of third-party apps
The Sony A1E runs on Android TV — normal Android apps from the Google Play Store (or other app stores) will work on it.
Pro Extremely low motion blur
As the Sony A1E has an OLED panel, it has near-perfect pixel response time; the motion blur is virtually non-existent at sub-1ms, which means this TV will have no issues with displaying extremely fast-moving objects — they will look smooth without any blur or lag.
Pro Excellent for dark rooms
The Sony A1E performs exceptionally well in dark environments. Its ability to produce absolute and perfect blacks means the reproduction of dark highlights and scenes in movies will look great — this is further improved when there's no light around the TV as it allows the blacks to stand out more. This makes it great for watching all sorts of movies in a cinema-like setting, particularly movies with many black highlights/scenes where this is immediately noticeable even to undiscerning viewers (e.g. Interstellar).
Pro Decent sound quality
The sound quality of the Sony A1E is surprisingly good for a TV (which isn't known for having excellent sound). The speakers can get really loud without much distortion happening, and its frequency response is perhaps one of the best measured in a TV's speakers. While an external audio set-up will be better, the built-in speakers should suffice for most users that don't wish to spend additional money on an audio set-up.
Pro Dark scenes are perfectly reproduced
The Sony A1E can handle dark scenes very well thanks to its OLED panel which gives it infinite contrast ratios — it can reproduce dark scenes perfectly because of this.
Pro Wide viewing angle
The picture quality of the Sony A1E does not suffer from much deterioration when viewed from other angles. The brightness will decrease with deviations in viewing angles, but the black levels seem to be maintained perfectly.
Pro Decent for gaming
Input lag is one of the most important factors when considering a TV for gaming — it's representative of how fast the TV can display the image after receiving the input. The Sony A1E has ~30-40ms of input lag, which is decent enough for most gamers, but competitive gamers might find this lacking.
Pro Excellent for watching sports
The Sony A1E's versatility is top-notch. The motion blur along with great overall color uniformity makes it an excellent choice for sports.
Pro Great color reproduction
The color gamut of a TV refers to the range of colors the display can reproduce — the wider the color gamut, the more colors it can display, and the better the overall picture quality will be. This is extremely important for HDR content because it requires a much broader color gamut than SDR content. The Sony A1E has no issues with accurately reproducing the colors necessary for true HDR.
Pro Fair performance in standard mode
The Hisense H9E Plus offers decent performance while dealing with the non-HDR content thanks to its good overall SDR picture quality. The TV reproduces beautiful images that feature relatively bright and accurate colors as well as some pretty deep blacks.
The H9E Plus offers a relatively wide range of vivid and accurate colors. It can reproduce a wide variety of colors thanks to its wide color gamut that measures at around 86% of the DCI-P3 - only the best TVs in this price range can perform on par with the H9E Plus. In the SDR mode, the colors look genuinely bright thanks to the TV's sustained brightness that peaks at around 300 nits.
Regarding its dark scene performance, the H9E Plus performs on par with the best TVs in its price bracket thanks to its ability to reproduce uniform and inky blacks. The dark areas look genuinely dark without losing the detail thanks to the TV's high native contrast ratio that measures at 6000:1. Also, blacks don't look washed out thanks to the TV's high black uniformity that measures at around 1.2 %.
Pro Ads-free
The main interface of the Hisense H9E Plus is free of ads. Additionally, you have an option to opt-out of the suggested content.
Cons
Con Suffers from image retention issues
The main drawback of OLED panels are image retention issues with static images — pixels on the panel gets burned in when the picture doesn't change for extended periods of time. Noteworthily, the static image doesn't have to be whole like a full wallpaper on the TV; it can happen with content that has a static image anywhere on the screen.
As the Sony A1E has an OLED panel, it, unfortunately, suffers from this problem. There might be some retainment of artifacts for ~10 minutes when this happens, and it usually goes away after watching other content without static images. It's worth noting that while this issue is present, the Sony A1E reportedly handles this pretty well — most users report the artifacts going away only ~5minutes of playing traditional content.
Con Might be hard to access inputs when mounted to a wall
The Sony A1E is extremely thin, and it has a reflective finish on the back. After mounting it to a wall, the inputs might be hard to access, and because of the reflective finish, it can pick up fingerprints/smudges when attempting to access the inputs (which also becomes hard to clean because of how thin it is).
Con Lacks support for Dolby Vision
The Sony A1E can currently only play HDR10 content. It does not support Dolby Vision.
Con Poor build quality
In terms of overall build quality, the Hisense H9E Plus resembles an old, low-end TV. The back of the TV is built from soft and cheap plastics and there are no integrated cable routing solutions present in this TV.