Spawn Labs HD-720 enables streaming of console games

Let's say you're a married dude who has his consoles in the living room with a bitchy wife who never lets you play because she's always watching shitty, shitty TV. You could use this to play the games in other rooms, on other TV's or even computer monitors, without having to unhook everything. That's a pretty neat thing to do.

If your really lucky your mistress loves games.

this would be great if you travel internationally all the time. But if you are going to use it at home, might as well get another tv and console. Cheaper and better resale value.

The point of this is that when I'm at work, I can't realistically bring my tv/consoles with me to play on my work pc's monitor while I'm on lunch break, etc. With this device, you can feasibly stream the video and stream input back. Great for logging into an mmorpg and griding a few items/levels out?

This thing is so fucking sexy. I want to make sweet, sweet love to it.

I'll stick to what I got. Ain't no woman going to tell me when and where to play my shits when there's more than one TV setup in the house.

@Shagittarius
a mistress and wife are 2 separate things.

?? how is Sony behind in digital distribution ... just because they aren't creating crazy unnecessary names for things like "Games on Demand" doesn't mean its not there.

Don't forget they released Warhawk on PSN and in stores at the same time. and have many other games for download.

Burnout Paradise, Hail to the Chimp, NFL Head Coach 09, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, Siren: Blood Curse, SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation.

also Wipeout HD. which will soon be in stores as a full game.

"Let's say you're a married dude who has his consoles in the living room with a bitchy wife who never lets you play because she's always watching shitty, shitty TV."

No wonder you're such a loser.

Get your personal problems in order and stop using Joystiq as an outlet for your domestic life regrets and rants.

Who am I kidding, no one would marry you lol

Hey Swagman

Can you get me a job at Microsoft??

Um, who (aside from journalists) desperately needs to be playing console games ALL the time, even when they are traveling internationally, at work, at a friend's house, etc.? How about just wait till you get home? Am I missing something here?

@Jerk Face: Those are terrible things to say about your wife. I have no idea why you were voted up. You obviously have bigger issues than not being able to play games whenever you want if you can't even communicate with your wife or compromise properly.

"Who am I kidding, no one would marry you lol"

cody, are you suggesting that someone would WANT to marry YOU? that is surprising and creepy at the same time.

@ Swagman

Dude, I think he is just pointing out that Sony seems less "behind" than "selective"

Games on demand is cool, but its fair to point out that you could download Burnout Paradise over PSN a million years ago. Its also fair to point out that XBLA is flooded with crappy games while PSN seems more selective. With film... Well its tricky when you are a movie company to get other cats to let you sell the movies they make and take a chunk of the cash.

I'm not saying Sony is ahead of MS in this area, but I would say that its a bit unfair to call someone "behind" and say they have a lot of "catching up to do" when ini some cases they did it first, but just havent pursued it with passion. I honestly, don't think Japanese consumers or companies have shown a zeal for this tech. I don't think it has anything to do with being "behind" but rather its just a case of different priorities.

I mean, Sony is right to have its priorities in a different place. They are a Japanese company who makes a lot of money from its vested interest in the DVD format and CD format. I can't blame them for pushing Blu-Ray format instead of DD. They have shown themselves to be very fast with digital distrobution of games. They simply don't seem interested. there is a difference.

Its sad I even have to say this but, I don't own any sony hardware aside from maybe a boombox.

Keep in mind the main use cases are:
1. Play in other rooms around your house when someone else is tying up the TV.
2. Play at home on your console/TV while friends play remotely from their homes.
3. Play on the road when traveling.

Only #3 presents the DVD problem, and even there, more and more games can be loaded onto your hard drive, so you can play any of the games on your hard drive when remote. Plus you can hook up two consoles, so you can play either console DVD game.

Ballmer, stop using swagman's account!

Not sure why I got voted down. I still haven't read a good reason why you'd really need one of these. As for the "well you can play your console in the other room" argument, are you really too lazy to take your console to another TV? Or wait until the TV is done being used?

My friend just informed me you'd be able to play onLive with a cheap laptop via someone's 360, but I feel like this device would benefit such a tiny niche group of people. I understand the technological progression may be exciting, but I don't really see a good practical reason to drop the bucks for this, at least not right now.

If I got voted down for Jerk Face, well, I stand by it. No one wants to read you saying terrible things about your wife or husband.

Man, I love when people complain about getting downvoted, it makes me want to go back in time and right all the wrongs in the world!

My inbox hates all of you :|

Well it uses ethernet between the nodes. So the lag should be pretty much unnoticeable.

Right, because hundreds or thousands of miles of network infrastructure wouldn't create lag.

For the record, I love my Wii. I just wanted to rehash that crappy joke. Yes, I know it started with an idiot who works at EA bashing the Wii.

Notice: device cannot emulate duct tape.

To be fair, you proudly display your PSN ID. Doing that and bashing Nintendo kinda screams Sony fanboy. I, however, keep quiet about my system preferences normally (though my comments will reveal enough).

@SyderTaco: Do you like fishsticks?

No IR sensor bar, noobs. : )

Things are not going to end well for Kanye I can just tell...

I trashed nintendo in the NPD's.

Heed a warning, your comment will be downvoted so badly, your font may [or may not] become whiter than taylor swift's face when kanye decided to be a douchebag.

Because trolling Wii is older than old, and nothing can really be said about it that hasn't been run into the ground or disproven (or both).

But Jerk Face got it right. It would be hard to stream the whole IR pointer thing by remote, unless you built one of those DIY pointers.

Plus i can't imagine the kind of hell that the already shaky gesture recognition would be if you had to send it across teh internetz.

You see, if you leave COD in the tray, then it works out, because the multiplayer is timeless

I stick to Halo 3, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Puzzle Quest, Saints Row 2, and just about anything other then call of dudy.

That or fallout 3 Cheesus

:O
well i'm out. have fun without me.

In principal I agree, but this is also the very first iteration of it and the price has to drop if they're going to make a go of it. If the price were $100 and no extra for controller support, that would be a considerably cheaper alternative to gaming on the go.

Still, I don't see a big enough market to support them long enough to drop the price that much.

This machine would combo well with the 360 if you use titles stored on your hardrive instead of the disc. You could always download a game on the go too with this.

Ooh. I hadn't thought about installed games.

I suppose there would be a market for travelling gamers who wanted to play Xbox or Playstation off their notebooks?

I can't see it being a very big seller, though.

You still have to have the disc in the drive to play installed games on the 360.

The box will do an alright, nay, an excellent job. The internet pipelines between whatever computer you're using and your server back at home will fare substantially worse, however.