I’ve always wondered..
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It’s not that streaming inherently takes less it’s more of a choice.
So let’s say the file for a movie is 2gb. When you download it you don’t usually get a choice, you just download the movie which is 2gb.
But for streaming, they usually cater to the fact that bandwidth is limited and large files strain the network/infrastructure so they do all kinds of things to reduce size to make it more efficient.
They’ll usually compress the hell out of it for example. The compression algorithms have gotten really good to be honest so the average person with the average tv setup can’t see the difference.
But that’s not automatic. Streaming could be just a straight stream of the 2gb file. But they usually choose to do things to the stream to make it more efficient.
AppleTV+ & iTunes for example chooses to not do much compression so streaming a movie from them is much larger than streaming from Netflix or YouTube.
It’s a choice.
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