I went on a road trip and as it was through the middle of nowhere, I downloaded a bunch of shows on various apps to watch on my phone in case I didn’t have data in certain places. When I would try to open a video on my phone that was downloaded (Bad Batch on D+) it would take literal minutes to start, but if I started streaming the same show/episode it would start almost immediately. This seems counterintuitive. Why does it happen?
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The quality/resolution of the streamed content can be adjusted on the fly to accommodate varing internet connection speeds.
A downloaded file will be at a fixed file size, so on a slow connection it could take longer than the playback time to download.
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