With some examples being more explicit than others, here's a sample of the situations you might already face or will face soon. Such a platform as MediaDrop can resolve them by nature:
You have been requested to build a media system that is able to display a presentation video clip of a product you intend to promote (in a market, company, and so on). A BeagleBone board with remote management will be handy, most of all if you have a lot of videos to handle.
From the precedent point, compare the different PC and BeagleBone budgets.
Your wife asked you to watch the latest TV show episode from Netflix, but she doesn't want to use any computer for it. Really?
As an employee, you want to improve yourself. Having access to e-learning would be a good thing. Does the local proxy server grant you access to such media-related things? A local device having access to local contents is so easy to deploy for each desktop.
A company wants its employees to use internal communication—easy and fast as podcasts by using the boards on the local network