Elena Rybakova

Elena has reviewed mid-range televisions professionally for seven years and has been Tech Junctions' Hisense lead since launch. Her beat is value - the ULED, U6, U7, U8, and UX series where picture-quality-per-dollar is won or lost - and she's logged more than 180 hours of side-by-side comparisons between Hisense, TCL, and the equivalent Samsung/LG tier in her Portland testing room. Before moving to full-time reviews she spent four years as a quality-assurance technician at a panel-assembly ODM, which is where she learned to spot backlight bleed, dirty-screen effect, and colour-uniformity drift on sight. Elena writes the annual "Is Hisense actually good?" deep-dive and personally fact-checks every Hisense troubleshooting guide on the site. She's a stickler for noting when a panel is VA vs. IPS - because viewing angle matters and most buyers aren't told.