> There is no way in hell a 1.79Mhz 6502 can play streaming video.
It can't decode MPEG 4 real time, of course, but machines of this class are more than capable of streaming video.
ZX Spectrum streaming with a network interface (~3.5MHz Z80):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooi9rpx6ECM
Commodore 64 with lots of RAM (~1MHz 6510):