But the PC streaming has an important and much-overlooked footnote: it will be available only for a select few PCs.
While the Elastic Load Balancers serving Mac and PC streaming were unaffected, those users experienced latency issues, and may have needed to reload a stream.
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With AirPlay, users can literally "give their home a soundtrack" by unleashing their iTunes music libraries whether from Mac or PC and streaming all their favorite iTunes songs, as well as music stored on their Apple mobile devices, to select Denon and Marantz components through their Wi-Fi enabled networks from iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch devices.
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You could say that its operating system sets it apart, or its knack for streaming PC games, but that's not it -- it's that Shield won't be sold at a loss.
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As for console culture versus PC gaming, where streaming has been the norm for some time now, Hunstable's bullish on its reception.
The iPad and PC versions boast excellent navigation, the streaming is usually seamless.
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Gaikai is one of several online gaming systems that let people play games by streaming the action to a PC.
The Z300 is the only Bluetooth enabled PC headset capable of answering calls or streaming music via a mobile device while playing a game.
QuickTime: Play streaming audio and video on your Mac or PC.
Agawi, formerly iSwifter, recently launched the 2.0 version of its cloud gaming platform and provides its partners with content streaming solutions for all devices, from mobile to PC to TV.
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The smoothness and clarity of the streaming video, powered by RealNetworks (nasdaq: RNWK - news - people ) software, can't hold a candle to a standard television broadcast, nor a decent Internet video stream on a PC, but it's clear that the technology for streaming video to phones is coming along.
The VIA ARTiGO A1150 is ideal for a variety of applications in the home or office, including home server, media streaming and surveillance applications or great as a regular desktop PC, using only a fraction of the physical real estate.
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The questionably named Cyber University in Japan has begun offering a mobile class on the "mysteries of the pyramids, " but instead of a typical PC's display of text, images, sound, and video, the mobile version offers a streaming Power Point presentation on the topic.
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Playcast takes the PC versions of games and tweaks them at the binary level (no source code required) to optimize them for streaming.
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While we can imagine the list of restrictions on this streaming gig are quite lengthy, the company has stated that it will support "DVR-to-PC connectivity, " thus enabling DVR viewing on a networked PC, though there's no mention of supporting wirelessly connected computers a la Slingbox.
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