You can have both, like MacBooks do

But you do need to pay for a Vendor ID, you can’t just YOLO it?

Direct download piracy and streaming is surprisingly popular.

With a bit of effort you can stream any movie directly to your TV for a few moneys a month (or free, but paying for the essential bits removes the jankiness)

Basically you select the movie, a system finds the torrent or DDL, a service downloads it (or has it cached) and you stream it to your device.