eli5 Why does GPU heats and use fan to cooldown while processing 8k video on PC and there is no single fan in a TV and still process 8k/4k videos?

Question

In short, why does the the TV doesn’t need a fan to cooldown and PC requires one while dealing with high definition videos?

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Answer 1

TVs generally are playing incoming signals as a display, and when they do frame interpolation it is hardware level not software level. A GPU rendering videos is outright assembling assets into a brand new file that needs to be written to a drive. The TV does not do that even when interpolating frames