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Originally Posted by techman1
Like watching a DVD or the same movie thru cable.
Thru cable, there is no running program on your tv decompressing audio and video. It just displays what is sent.
On your DVD player it is grabbing the digital stuff, decompressing and sending to tv. Think if the DVD had special stuff that you needed a code to play. Without the code, you have a disk, nothing else.
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Not quite.
Your set top box is doing the processing.
It's functionally the same as the DVD player