Why do TVs not require graphics cards the same way that computers do?

Question

Let’s use Balders Gate as an example… the majority of the really “graphic” intensive parts of the game are the cut scenes and not the actual game. So why would it need a substantial GPU? Isn’t it just playing back a prerecorded video much like a TV would? Or am I thinking of this wrong?

In: Technology

Answer 1

ELI5:

PC, if it was a human child:

Stand here and let’s work on multiplication.

TV, if it was a human child:

Stand here and repeat after me.

One has to think a lot more than the other.