Vision Pro watching Purchased & Downloaded movies residing in Movie Library

@Phillip Steeler1

I did not specifically ask about the copying / transfer steps for a purchased movie, regardless whether an MPEG-4 or HLS file, from one's Library residing within a Mac's TV app's Library to Vision Pro's internal storage.

Here's the link to Managing Library on Vision Pro. ...Some of the Guide details are not as precisely written out as I would like, but no doubt, various Apple news websites will fill in those details at some point.

@XBigRedDogx & @Vancouver22 ... Thanks for your earlier replies.

I am curious about how Vision Pro (VP) really works when watching purchased / downloaded movies as this one feature, if implemented really well, might be the "killer entertainment app" which justifies / rationalizes a purchase, for me, of a Vision Pro.

• There's now no doubt VP's TV app is how access to one's purchased (Movie) Library takes place; but,
• if a movie is locally stored, Vision Pro would seemingly be using one's 2.4GHz WiFi Network for VP's TV app to access the Movie Library (associated with one's ID, and the movie file has been locally downloaded to wherever movie's purchase was completed or copied somewhere else).
• In my case, all my Movies have been purchased & downloaded solely using my Mac Studio's TV app's access to the TV Store; and none have ever been synced to iCloud.
• I've never purchased any movies using either my Apple TV 4K's TV Store app or, iPad Pro's TV Store app.
• My purchased Movie Library has 247 titles; 1.23 TBs of movie files downloaded to my Mac Studio; none downloaded to my iPad Pro (11" iPad Pro WiFi 4th gen. - 128GB Capacity).

Completed a test to check movie playback using my iPad's TV app's (Movie) Library access over my 2.4 GHz WiFi network to select & watch on my iPad Pro.

• All purchased movies were "shown" pretty quickly in my iPad Pro's TV app's Movie Library access; selected 1 movie; and started & watched the movie on my iPad Pro. ...Worked well as I expected.

So if an iPad Pro easily does it this way, wouldn't Vision Pro essentially do it the same way, when watching a purchased movie using the Vision Pro's TV app's access to my Movie Library ?

Or, must a movie (to be watched) be synced from one's Movie Library to iCloud, which would then, be from where Vision Pro's TV app accesses the movie for streaming into Vision Pro ?

• If such is the case, seems streaming a movie from iCloud's servers, over the internet and WiFi, might be subject to playback vagaries, since 1080p movie files can be large (depending on movie's time-length & especially if in color).

I've spoken with Apple. ...Here's what I was told.

• Vision Pro can stream / play a movie from one's TV app's Library in 1 of 2 ways:

1. Stream over Vision Pro's WiFi & Internet connection, which streams the Movie from one's Apple ID account using Apple's iCloud servers. {Content must be cached on the iCloud servers.}
2. Or, download the Movie, which would then be 1080p, to Vision Pro's internal storage. ...Then, watching will be playing a local copy.

• • Using this method does require the extra, download step, but it would nicely support movies, particularly long ones, for reliable & smooth (home) 1080p playback.
  • And, subsequent deleting the downloaded copy, would be easy peasy.

I have been quite satisfied with all my purchased, 1080p movies (MPEG-4 & HLS) for watching on a 4K HDTV. While Vision Pro's videoplay specs may be somewhat different (offhand, I don't know precisely), recently posted, Vision Pro reviews have indicated watching movies, even 3D, is quite astounding. ...I'm keen.

@Phillip Sheeler1

• I've haven't yet seen a step-by-step explanation about copying/downloading a purchased movie is completed; but, I surmise it's similar to copying/downloading a movie into an iPad's internal storage. {I do not have an Vision Pro.}
• Probably, one would open the VP's TV app -> select Library -> after selecting a Title, one uses eye selection & finger selecting a navigable Menu that allows selecting what to do next.
• I did pose the question about whether preferable to download to Vision Pro's storage or WiFi stream. ...This question produced a definitive reply from a podcast called Magic Rays of Light (about what's playing on TV's Apple TV+ streaming service) with MacStories hosts: Sigmund Judge & Devon Dundee.

Both hosts agreed 9 times out of 10, best downloading to VP's storage (deleting afterwards), so one is streaming a local copy from VP (rather than WiFi live-streaming).

Principal reason given was downloading copies a more robust (higher quality), audio file version into storage compared to audio being live-streamed over WiFi. They offered that WiFi streaming certainly acceptable, but for high quality movies (say, likes of Avatar or Marvel movies), one gets a better audio / visual playback experience when movie is playing from VP's storage.

I also sense downloading would also be preferable if preparing to watch a long movie and one wanted to keep VP AC cable connected to an AC source during complete playback.