Streaming movies to different ATV gen 2 units

I have 3 ATV2 units hooked up via ethernet to my home network. I have my library on my desktop computer and want to stream movies (different ones to different ATV2's) can there be 2 video/audio streams on the network at the same time?

louiewu wrote:
can there be 2 video/audio streams on the network at the same time?
yes.
what content is streamed to the individual ATV's is controlled by the units themselves.

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