system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are dvd players that connect to TVs so much larger than ones in laptops, computers, and even USB DVD players? What's the difference?
gpt
The DVD player in a computer just reads the data off the disk. The rest of the computer decodes it and generates the video to display. With a standalone DVD player, it has to do everything in the device.