The real power of the Dune IP protocol comes about when you deal with a NAS and the Dune. You can just give the Dune an IP command to initiate a stream from any accessible SMB based NAS file and play the movie perfectly. It is how my Theater is designed. All movies are stored as MKV containers and the librarian allows the user to select a film and start it streaming by effectively sending the dune the proper IP command containing the full path to the desired file..

The overall look and feel is that of a Kelaidescape system at a fraction of the cost