Watching movies on my pc vs. watching movies using WD TV Live Player

Thank you for you reply.

I am not sure what you mean by upsampling. I googled the term and from the definition given by Wikipedia, namely " Upsampling is the process of increasing the sample rate of a signal" I say no, that is NOT what I am doing.

The dvd movies that I ripped to my external hdd and am playing back using my pc and tv are just ordinary dvd movies. The connection from WD TV Live Player to my tv is HDMI. The connection from my pc’s video card to my tv is also HDMI.

I appreciate your answer. It’s logical and right. I am a bit puzzled. Am I or am I not seeing a difference in sharpness and clarity? I thought perhaps my pc’s video card was adding a little extra something to the transmission.