iPod Classic - strong seller

[KingIsaacLinksr]

Oh and I just don't put my entire podcasts/videos on my iPhone, that's how I get by.  Only the latest 5 podcasts of each.  That cuts down on the space requirement.  My library is actually large, but doesn't take up more than 12GB of music space. 

King

[Dangelus]

Both really. The software links to your media over your home network and also over the Internet or 3G when away from home.

So, let me run through this.  You have to leave your home PC on (which I wouldn't do if going away for more than a few hours) and then you are out with your iPhone and want to play a song.  That sends a signal via 3G to your home PC which then needs to stream the whole audio file (again via 3G) to your phone?  How fast does this all happen?

Yep the server software on the PC points to your content and you can browse and access it on the phone.

It's pretty quick with good signal strength. Video not so quick, there can be a 30 second delay for example but you can set the quality up to as high as you need (for example you can stream an HD video but no point streaming it full quality for an iphone) and it works very well.

Obviously I do have content on my iphone but I use this to access my entire collection if I decide to watch / listen to something that happens not to be on the phone.

You do need to leave a machine on to run the server software yes.

Orb is pretty good as the PC software is free (iphone app isn't) and you can actually use a web portal to access your content. So you can setup the server to point to your content at home and stream via a web browser at work. ;)