you get more flexibility and features from NMT, following are some features of NMT not available on TV -
- support for large capacity HDD, up to 3TB, and multiple disk connections
- support for large files, can play 30GB~ BD ISO files
- supports more file formats on both video and audio - BD ISO, MKV, APE, FLAC, etc.
- HD audio pass through (TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, etc.) - will only work on HDMI connection
- network functionality (NAS, torrent downloader, radio, etc.)