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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redrobes" data-source="post: 3414288" data-attributes="member: 40793">Wow Ranger - never heard of a date like that before... hope it goes well !There are many ways of seeing another persons desktop. The old timer is VNC which is pretty ubiquitous over all the OS'es and was used so much that MS either used bits of it or created their own kind. I cant remember exactly how what happened behind the scenes. Anyway there is one fairly big difference.VNC basically captures bits of the screen that change and send over the visual bits of that screen as a bitmap. Remote desktop keeps looking at all the windows messages and sends over what is required to redraw the desktop on the remote machine and where it cannot then it sends bitmaps. So remote desktop is usually a bit faster.On the whole, both work pretty well. You will get a small amount of lag with both and screen updates occur at intervals a little less than real time. I guess it would depend on your bandwidths and link latency but I would think it unlikely that you could send video in real time over a link like that. At the end of the day the data rate coming off of the DVD file / disc would have to be matched in bandwidth with your internet link to see it at full res and real time.I would try both of these methods just to see how it goes. You will have to program your router to port forward on the server side and check your firewall settings as you will be locally hosting a connection.</blockquote>

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