Did you press the play button?? The video is irrelevant to this article, a 3d desktop for Linux, but the play button you clicked, thats a powerful symbol and millions click every day. Imagine a page with your TV advertisement or salesperson, this is one of the best forms of media you can use, aside from face to face consultation.

Utube and Stage Six (Veoh have now bought out the rights to use Stage Six's technology), for now the most commonly used video streaming technology's. DivX and MPEG 4 has revolutionised the quality and speed of a Video on Demand (VOD). This streaming technology allows viewers to gain access to full screen, quality streaming video files using only their web browser. The potential ways of using video and media streaming include virtual classrooms, on line video tutorial sites and of course mass media like on line TV and radio stations

Easy access to full multimedia content is extremely useful for all kinds of users and organisations but especially for when a real person is best to get your message across. Due to the nature of computers it also gives the opportunity to archive material which can be searched in a database. (Utube is the best example of this I can think of right now).

Anything that is recorded or streamed live can become a part of a web site sitting on a web server and published on the Internet. This includes but is not limited by

CCTV has advanced leaps and bounds with the advent of live video streaming. This can also help you monitor remote locations even interact and rotate and zoom cameras! Streams can be viewed from anywhere with an Internet connection.