Insignia NS-43DF710NA19 43-inch Fire TV Edition Review

Insignia 4K UHD Smart TV is a new generation of television featuring the Fire TV experience built-in and including a Voice Remote with Alexa. With true-to-life 4K Ultra HD picture quality and access to all the movies and TV shows you love, Insignia delivers a superior TV experience that gets smarter everyday.

The Voice remote with Alexa lets you do everything you'd expect from a remote-plus, easily launch apps, search for titles, play music, switch inputs, control smart home devices, and more, using your voice. Smart but simple in every way. Just plug it in, connect to Wi-Fi, and enjoy.

The Insignia NS-43DF710NA19 is a 43-inch LCD (LED) Ultra HD TV with a native resolution of 3840x2160 (2160p). It includes an Ethernet jack allowing for a wired connection to your home network. It is also WiFi capable, so you can connect it to your home network wirelessly. This TV has three HDMI inputs, and no component-video inputs. It also has one USB port, which may be used to play media--photos, videos, and music--stored on a flash drive.

Insignia is built for speed and performance. It’s powered by a quad-core CPU/Multi-core GPU for instant search results and fast and fluid responsiveness. Connect easily with dual-band Wi-Fi, three HDMI inputs, and multiple input/output options. This TV is HDR-compatible, so that you can enjoy HDR movies and Television shows. Plus, your Television keeps getting smarter with new Alexa skills and automatic over-the-air software updates, so you always have the latest.

The NS-43DF710NA19 Fire TV Edition did an excellent job displaying the finest detail of HD content but picture performance was limited by color accuracy which tended towards a pink tone, with colors temperature on the cool side. Contrast was good, so images had depth and dimension while the black level was generally good.

Image brightness was great (with the backlight control turned up), making it a suitable choice for most rooms. In scenes with subtly shaded light-to-dark areas, such as a sky during sunset, the model did a very good job producing a smooth transition without distinct, coarse bands. There was slight display non-uniformity that created brighter cloudy areas most noticeable on very dark moments (or in the dark bars of a letterboxed movie).

Experience breathtaking 4K Ultra HD display quality with more than 8 million pixels for stunning clarity, deep contrast, and vivid colors. Watch movies and TV shows come to life in Ultra HD. Overall UHD performance was decent but HD-to-UHD up-conversion fell short.

All native 4K content (non HDR) that played on this unit, including movies and video clips, was presented in full 4K detail with excellent fidelity when played back via the TV's HDMI input. Via the USB slot, high-resolution photos were unfortunately downscaled to a lower 1080p quality. With regular HD content material, the TV's HD-to-UHD up-conversion processing fell short, revealing some visible jaggies along the edges of diagonals when playing HD content material.

HDR performance is not effective. The display did not have the peak brightness capability necessary by HDR standards to enhance the realism, while revealing little or no contrast between moderately bright and very shiny highlights within a scene.

The NS-43DF710NA19 has good sound quality which about average among the models in this price range. The speakers could play at a fairly loud volume level but quality does degrade at the highest settings. Most people would find this audio quality acceptable.

Fire TV Edition brings together live over-the-air TV and all your streaming channels on the home screen. Connect any HD antenna and use Alexa to instantly search for and watch live over-the-air Television, or choose from a vast catalog of streaming films and Television shows from Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, HBO, and more. You can subscribe to PlayStation Vue, Sling TV, DIRECTV NOW, and others to stream even more of your favorite live TV shows. You can also connect your cable/satellite box or gaming console through one of the TV's three HDMI ports.

Overall for under $200 range, it's not a bad 43-inch. Truly fantastic to get a 4K HDR plus the built-in Amazon Fire TV at this price point.

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