First, generally, the TV is beautiful and sounds great. When hooked up to an ethernet cable, it streams well and is relatively snappy. As built-in TV OSes go, Google TV is halfway decent. Not anywhere near as nice as the AppleTV's OS, but it is a lot better than the WebOS experience on our LG TV (all in my opinion of course). The picture is very bright in "Theater Night" mode, and blindingly bright in "Theater Day" mode, easily overwhelming any reflections in our room except for in the darkest of scenes. Speaking of dark: this screen gets truly black, leading to spectacular and immersive visuals.I did notice significant macro blocking on the Starz app, but not generally across other apps. This is likely just a Starz issue.We generally live in our AppleTV devices across our TVs, but with a new version expected this Fall I wanted to use the built-in apps for this TV for as long as we can. Hisense has added AirPlay support to the TV itself, so if we need to we ca just directly cast to the TV from our phones, iPads, etc.A lot of professional reviews mention poor angle of view, which is intrinsic with LCD-based TVs (including this one with its micro-LED backlight). I haven't been able to notice it, personally. I'm sure if I had professional calibration gear I could see the off-axis issues. But, overall, we don't generally have the TV pointed at where we are sitting in the room at any particular time, and haven't seen either marked lack of brightness nor loss of contrast that the professional reviews generally note when off-axis more than ~20 degrees.On the theme of professional reviews, it seems they are mixed on the sound quality here. Overall, the gist is that it has plenty of sound, but it isn't accurate to the levels of audiophiles. Given I'm far from an audiophile, and mostly just want to be able to understand the dialogue being delivered on screen without resorting to distracting captioning, I wasn't sure what to expect, and had the option of getting a soundbar to supplement audio ready to trigger if needed. So far, I've been very happy with the audio here. We have it in a relatively large room with plenty of furniture, and everything I've watched so far is very clearly intelligible, non-muddied. I haven't tried watching an action-centric movie/show yet, so it is possible the subwoofer will be underwhelming, but even just having a subwoofer puts it a huge step ahead of our other TVs in the house (which all have soundbars to replace their anemic audio).Okay, now for the bad:* The wifi unit is just plain broken. It will connect to my WiFi (an Alien system), but the throughput speeds range between 1Mbps and 40Mbps, erratically fluctuating (measured with the AppleTV network troubleshooting function) and randomly fails to connect to servers (see image from Netflix's similar troubleshooting). From the router itself, it is showing significantly higher throughput than the apps in the TV see; I am not sure what exactly it is doing, but it is not showing up as streaming throughput. I should note that I went through multiple "how to fix slow network on Hisense TVs" videos and spent literally over a half day trying every suggested "fix", including all the way down to doing a factory reset on the TV and resetting everything (which itself took over 25 minutes just to complete setup after I'd gone through all the UIs, which may have been an effect of the flakey wifi connection or might just be a slow processor/storage). Nothing could fix this. I also see a number of Reddit and other forum posts talking about wifi bandwidth issues with specific units, while replies tend to include a lot of "my [same model number] gets 100Mbps reliably" and similar. It seems like a severe quality control issue with their network chip supplier, dating back at least to the U8G series (a few years back).* Google TV has multiple "profiles", but it seems pretty much useless outside of Youtube. I watched a few shows on Starz and Max, and those show up to "continue" on my wife's Google TV profile (note that we have separate profiles both on the Google TV and in the individual apps). And, of course, selecting your profile in the Google TV OS doesn't automatically set the profile in any of the underlying apps except Youtube. If you use anything aside from youtube, the top level profile system in the OS seems pretty much useless. That said, this isn't an Hisense problem, but rather a Google problem.* While the ethernet port works (unlike the wifi), it appears to be an ancient 100 Mbps port instead of a gigabit port, as verified by the SpeedTest app that maxes out around 75Mbps throughput (you never get 100Mbps on a 100Mbps ethernet port due to necessary overhead, although the 75Mbps is a bit on the low side). This is okay for even 4k streaming (which generally runs at about 25 Gbps bandwidth usage on all the streaming services, less in some), but it shows the cost-cutting approach and impacts things like updates and other bandwidth uses in the device, as well as being able to skip around in the stream without waiting for buffering.* Hisense's "RemoteNow" app refuses to connect to the TV. We thought it might be a side effect of the broken wifi, but even with it connected to ethernet, the app can't find the TV. That said, the "Google TV" app seems to do just as well, providing both a remote control interface and the ability to use your phone's keyboard instead of (in some but not all apps!) the on-screen keyboards. Fortunately, most apps now support the QR code mechanism to log in on the TV from your phone, which is okay. Definitely many more steps involved than what we are used to with AppleTV (where when login is selected two taps on the phone use the iCloud-saved password to log in on the TV with no hassle whatsoever), and it means I had to install all these streaming service apps on my phone even though I never intend to use them there, just to bridge the password from my saved iCloud store to the TV app.* Ugh, the ads. All over the OS. Which is to be expected with Google, of course. No option to turn ads off, although apparently you can reset your advertiser id to get a new fresh hell of tracking ads instead of the old stale hell of tracking ads still serving up suggestions related to that joke item you looked up two years ago.Overall, I'd recommend just treating this like a dumb TV. Connect a good streaming (or gaming) box to it, and use that. You will be super satisfied. The picture is gorgeous. The sound is IMHO more than sufficient for casual users (although obviously no surround sound etc), and it sounds like integrations to sound bars or even home theater systems are a cinch. I did notice that it has a setting (I *think* it was on by default, but I am not positive) to remember the last-used input when it is powered off and go directly to that when powered back on, so if you have an AppleTV (say) on HDMI 1, you could select that once and then never have to deal with the Google TV OS again. That said, I haven't tested this, but it is clearly a solid step better than our WebOS-based LG that forces us to re-select the input every time the TV is powered on.