Test Bench

The Hisense C1 has every conceivable calibration parameter ever put on a wish list. Six-color CMS plus Flesh tone, with

Hue, Saturation, and Brightness controls (x,y,y). White balance adjustments are in 2-point and 20-point configurations. There are gamma presets from 1.8 through 2.6, including BT.1886. There is 20-point gamma adjustment capability, with ±25 input level gain control for fine-tuning response. Brightness, Contrast and Color Standard controls are also provided.

The range for the Sharpness control is 0-50, and ramping it up will introduce unwanted artifacts. Zero is fine.

Adaptive Contrast helps highlight image details in bright and dark areas. During the day on the Elite Aeon CLR, Medium indeed was the happy medium. For night viewing, Low worked best for me.

Choosing different motion control options, such as Smooth, Standard, Clear, Film, and Off, did not affect the fluidity of the image. I left it on Smooth.

Noise reduction settings include Off, Low, Medium, and High. Low was fine.

Color Temperature presets included Warm1, Warm2, Standard, and Cool. After the lasers had approximately 100 hours of run-in time, Warm2 produced the most natural palette combined with my pre-cal perceptual estimate.

The default Input lag was 149.8, dropping to 52.3 with Game Mode selected to On, measured using the Murideo 8K Seven generator. If

Gran Turismo 7 were real, and I was Max Verstappen, I would have lost my FIA Super License.

Laser speckle was extremely low, discernible only when inches from the Elite Aeon CLR. When the C1 was sampled out of curiosity on a Stewart Studiotek 100 screen, the speckle was totally absent.

While Hisense specifies it reaches 110% of BT.2020 color space, I measured 98.7% with my Minolta CS-200 using a Murideo Six G generator and Calman software.

DCI-P3 did net 100%, and the C1clocked Rec. 709 at 109%.

Pictured below are the pre- and post-cal passes on the Elite Aeon CLR, measurements taken with Portrait Displays Calman software.