do you lose quality when watching a movie on an external drive connected to your TV

[quinnlisas]

I have a 75inch smart TV and a macbook air. I would like to watch a movie on DVD from the library. Since I need to get an external drive to watch it and then use the HDMI to put it on the TV, do I lose quality by not having it on my original system?

 

[kanewolf]

No. The MacBook renders the video either way. Any hard drive should be able to supply more than enough bandwidth for a single video stream.

 

[robert600]

No. The MacBook renders the video either way. Any hard drive should be able to supply more than enough bandwidth for a single video stream.

I think the external drive the OP is referring to is a DVD burner not a hard drive but ...the answer is the same - no lose of quality with an external vrs internal.

Thinking of external DVD units - for not too much more you could get an external Blu-Ray reader - given the size of your tv - high definition would be nice. I know you specifically mention dvds from the library but more and more they are getting blu rays.