ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Starfire video prototype

Okay, imagine you have a favorite TV show that you really like called "Starfire". Well, the people who make the show want to make sure it looks and sounds really good before they put it on TV for everyone to watch. So they came up with something called a "video prototype".

Now, a video prototype is like a pretend version of the TV show that the people who make it can watch before they make the real thing. They can look at the pretend version and make sure all the characters look and sound the way they want them to, and that the story or plot makes sense. It's kind of like practicing for a big game or performance before the real thing happens.

So for "Starfire", the people who make the show made a video prototype to watch before they made the real show. They were able to see if the way the characters looked and talked were good enough, and if the story was exciting and made sense. This helped them make sure that when the real "Starfire" TV show came out, it would be really awesome for everyone to watch.