I bought a Hisense model from Costco and set it to "store mode".
For all practical purposes, it is just a dumb HDMI display attached to my computer.
For all practical purposes, it is just a dumb HDMI display attached to my computer.
My opinion --- in some cases, the difference between expensive and cheap boils down to the picture controls being intentionally limited for marketing effect.
So the cheap model maxed out looks like the more expensive model at medium. People can recognize the difference in the store so they opt for the more expensive one. But the actual displays themselves are virtually identical.
It may actually be cheaper to make one grade of display and differentiate using the controls.
This may seem like a good thing, but it also usually enables a "vibrant" postprocessing picture mode, motion smoothing, and maximum brightness so the display looks good in a well lit big box store. Unless your viewing environment is similar (or you don't care so much) that's probably not what you want.
I can imagine that there would be a potential to generate interpolated frames that intelligently make fast-moving scenes more understandable while leaving slow-moving scenes more or less at their intended 24 FPS.
Many action movies, especially with close hand-to-hand combat in tight spaces, are difficult to understand visually because 24 FPS just doesn't quite catch the movements.
I sort of don't like it(Old man shakes fist at sky "I want my frames to be real") but they are getting amazing results.
I want a TV for her that will power-on directly to YouTube-TV, and that's it, nothing else, no notifications, nothing.