Some 350,000 letters of DNA sequence will be streamed to you by the U.C.S.C. server.
When you want to watch a movie, it gets assembled from scores, even hundreds, of other Vudu boxes and is then streamed to you.
iPhone access via iTunes is gated at 10MB on 3G, so ironically it underlines the streaming angle if you doubleclick the item again and the file begins streaming to you in realtime.
Recordings would be streamed to you when you want to any appliance -- your laptop, mobile device, car, home stereo, via the Internet.
It's worth noting that FreeNAS would not allow you to stream to Apple TV.
Luckily, Caitlyn McGinn at the Columbia Daily Spectator has devised a nifty flowchart guide to Netflix streaming to help you decide what to view.
Secondly, if you're streaming to an audience, you have to be streaming constantly.
Libox transcodes the files into formats that can be streamed to whatever device you are on.
Instead, the players stream music to you through each of these methods, perhaps dodging some legal bullets.
