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Split screen. Left: a person staring at a loading bar at 43% with 'Downloading...' -- arms crossed, bored. Right: the same person watching a movie that's already playing, popcorn in hand, relaxed. Caption: 'Same movie. Different delivery.'

Downloading a movie vs streaming it.

Downloading: wait 20 minutes. Then watch. You get the whole file before you see a single frame.

Streaming: starts playing in 2 seconds. The rest downloads in the background while you watch.

Same movie. Same quality. One makes you wait. One doesn't.