IMac - Time Capsule - TV (network bottleneck question)

I have a wireless Time Capsule being used as an external HD in addition to the Time Machine. The HD is housing my iTunes Library and I'm using it to house movies, music, etc. My question has to do with the way the media will transfer and if there's a bottleneck.
My iMac is on 802.11G talking to the Time Capsule as the wireless access point. My TV is hardwired to the TC via Ethernet. So, when TV requests media from iTunes on my iMac that it doesn't have synched, will the TV be able to get the media directly from the library on the TC (hardwired) or is there a bottleneck with the wireless iMac?
Hope this makes sense,

Winston Churchill wrote:
some will tell you it will go TC > itunes > TC > tv, it may well do but I haven't seen any conclusive evidence of this one way or another.
I'm convinced that for streaming, data is pulled from wherever it's stored (local drive, TC, USB drive etc) by iTunes them streamed to AppleTV across the network.
If this was not the case then there would be no need for itunes to be running in order to stream.
The local drive, USB drive, TC etc cannot actively push data to AppleTV as it is not a server (iTunes behaves as one for AppleTV), and equally if AppleTV could access the files directly just by knowing their locations you wouldn't need to run iTunes except to update AppleTV's list of where thing were and to sync etc.
AC

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