Video streaming

http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196605471

Video streaming is an exciting new technology that allows video producers to share their work inexpensively with a worldwide audience. The article I read explains streaming very well. When you download a file the entire file is saved on your computer, which you open and view. This has some advantages, but has the big disadvantage of having to wait for the whole file to download before any of it can be viewed. If the file is quite small this may not be too much of an inconvenience, but for large files and long presentations it can be very time consuming. So providing downloadable video files in a simple hyperlink to the file or embedding the file in a web page using special HTML code is the easiest way to obtain this information in a timely manner. HTTP means Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, and is the same protocol used to deliver web pages. The user can start watching the file almost as soon as it begins downloading. The file is sent to the user in somewhat of a constant stream, and the user watches it as it arrives. This sounds like a great GB saver to me.
Teachers can use this technology to obtain new news for the classroom, or to just include visual with the lesson to help the students retain what they have learned. Throughout my research on this subject I came across a couple articles that made video streaming sound like a thing from the past with the invention of the high capacity mini hard drive, or jump drive. I definitely would want more information on the subject before I used it.