Chaitanya Kanojia, Aereo's chief executive, said Aereo's smooth play is due in part to the company building its own transcoding system, and there's no buffering or caching of content.
Netflix saves money and time and offers higher quality streaming by replicating and caching its content at data centers across the U.S. (and now Canada) to be as close to its customers as possible.
This need, plus caching of frequently accessed content will drive the requirements for flash memory storage as an important tier in enterprise storage infrastructures.
Perhaps the biggest gain may be in dual storage computers where a flash memory device is used for storing operating systems, software and frequently accessed content (and maybe even for write caching) while a hard disk drive provides much less expensive mass storage of user data.