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• Video Streaming Need To Know: Part 1- Encoding, Bit Rates and Errors*
  Thursday 13 July 2006 – 06:33
  Consumer networking vendors are constantly pitching us to stream video wirelessly around our homes. In Part 1 of this tutorial, Tim Higgins looks at what it takes to mess up networked video.
• Video Streaming Need To Know: Part 2 - The Real World*
  Friday 4 August 2006 – 10:18
  In the final part of this tutorial, Tim Higgins finds truth and lies about wireless streaming.
• Digital Living III: Video Streaming Clients*
  Wednesday 3 October 2007 – 09:57 in Consumer Electronics
  In our last installment, we looked at NAS devices with integrated media servers. Today we’re focusing on the other end of that chain, namely specialized receivers that let you play back music, movies and images stored on your PC or a NAS device over a ne ...
• Digital Living I: Turning Your Home PC Into A uPNP Multimedia Streaming Server*
  Wednesday 26 September 2007 – 10:06 in Consumer Electronics
  Turn your home PC into a video source for your digital living room. With the right software, virtually any system can be upgraded to a multimedia server, making it compatible with numerous receivers that support the uPNP standard. Today, most multimedia ...
• Carefree Music Streaming With The Logitech Wireless DJ Music System*
  Friday 27 October 2006 – 04:55
  Mike Baggaley found that Logitech's latest wireless music streaming system handles DRM-protected files as easily as your own ripped music.
• Linksys KiSS 1600 – A Talented Media Player with WLAN and DVD*
  Thursday 1 November 2007 – 03:28 in Consumer Electronics
  The advertisements promise HD-Video with 1080i. At £200 / €300, Linksys' media player with integrated DVD drive and WLAN seems like quite the bargain - but can it play back all formats smoothly without stuttering?
• Sondigo Sirocco: Wireless Audio Streaming with a DRM detour*
  Wednesday 1 November 2006 – 12:01
  DRM tends to put a crimp in wireless audio streaming flexibility. But Jim Buzbee found that Sondigo's Sirocco handily works around the problem.
• Second Hand Smoke - Kung Fu, Vodka, And The Joy Of Streaming*
  Friday 22 June 2001 – 06:00
  We paid a little visit to the Streaming Media West and Digital Entertainment Box Forum in Long Beach. Part showbusiness, part technology proctology, this is our report.