AirPlay question

I know that AirPlay is yet to be rolled out on iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads, but I have a question in anticipation of this.
I understand that AirPlay will allow you to stream content from an iPod Touch to the new Apple TV, and also from iTunes to the AppleTv and Airport Express. But, what I'd like to know is if one will be able to stream from iTunes to an iPod Touch?
The reason for me is that I have my Library in Apple Lossless format and so I can only have a small part of it synced to my iPod at any one time. It'd be nice, some evenings, to sit there and stream from my lossless library direct to my iPod and retain the quality.
This brings up a question about how to browse the library remotely though as i have an older (2G) iPod Touch which can't multitask, so I can't see it being possible to run the Remote App and AirPlay at the same time.
Questions, questions....

Easybourne wrote:
But, what I'd like to know is if one will be able to stream from iTunes to an iPod Touch?
no doubt you are aware that you can stream music to a Touch already, even if it's only by way of 3rd party tools such as Airfoil or AirPhones.
as for AirPlay, see this: http://www.apple.com/itunes/airplay/
what would really be cool is to be able to stream video to mobile devices
stream from my lossless library direct to my iPod and +*retain the quality+*.
check the post by Tesserax in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11836398&#11836398.
Tesserax talks about streaming to an AX, but the same should be true for streaming to a Touch.
This brings up a question about how to browse the library remotely though as i have an older (2G) iPod Touch which can't multitask, so I can't see it being possible to run the Remote App and AirPlay at the same time.
yeah, you will probably have to either invest in a new device or achieve the same with two older ones
JGG

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