most people probably don&#x27;t have the patience anymore to just pause and wait 30 minutes until the download is finished.<p>And most of the new modern video players support adaptive bitrate streaming, that adapts the quality to your network conditions. Of course if you want to stream 4K video on 2G, you won&#x27;t be able to do it today, but in that case it&#x27;s probably easier to download the mp4 file directly