Requiring students to pay for access to feature films for course study may be considered equivalent to requiring textbooks for a course. Purchasing films as an individual means that the individual licenses it. But people may find they already have access from an existing service they have.
Streamed video is viewed on your computer via a streaming device; or through a video player, which may be preloaded on your computer/browser or downloaded from the Internet. A few of the streaming media players are:
| Devices | Plugins |
|---|---|
| Amazon Fire TV Stick | Adobe Flash Player |
| Apple TV | Apple QuickTime |
| Google Chromecast | VLC Media Player |
| Roku | Windows Media Player |
A number of openly accessible Internet sites provide access to streaming videos. These sites may host content or point to content hosted elsewhere.