Streaming or Progressive? Which and why?

I really don't know the difference. Which one is better for me?

I like to skip ahead alot so I have to use streaming.

I never really knew the difference either. A teacher once told me but said it in bad terms so I basically forgot right away. But I go with what @BunkerBuster said:

" I like to skip ahead alot so I have to use streaming. "

sometimes when I'm on a road trip l like to load up all the videos i want to watch with progressive. Other wise I use streaming because i come back to videos and skip ahead to the part i left off at

So with progressive I can only watch from the beginning to the end?
Is one of them better for slower connections?

I use progressive because it loads MUCH faster for me.

" I like to skip ahead alot so I have to use streaming. "

" I use progressive because it loads MUCH faster for me. "

I'd say nearly any video on GB will "load" faster because none of them are very big. Consider maybe an hour and a half movie that you've seen the first half of, streaming is great. I think it's nice to even have the option. 
 
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I have a connection of about 800-900kb/sec and i also have to use progessive when on hd, which i dont mind as it pretty much loads up straight away and can skip ahead easily when needed. when on streaming it doesnt even bother loading at all lol must be a bug or something, it doesnt show buffering or anything.

Streaming streams and progressive pre-loads.

Progressive works much better for slower connections, but nowadays I primarily download.

Progressive is the only one that works for me so I obviously use that.

Progressive for me because I have a slow download speed.  I recently switched providers but the level of my new one is only a slight improvement.  I still get buffering-pauses if I go streaming.  So I like to use progressive and download a good sized chunk of the video before I start watching it.   I don't d/l HD for this reason.

i always thought that  

• streaming means its semi-live, like plays right away and you cant seek (but the benefit is that you dont have to wait),  
• while Progressive fills the bar and allows you to seek back and forth, but you have to wait for it to load

Thanks for the input guys. That's exactly the info I was looking for.