This is one of those ideas where you wonder why nobody did it sooner. ------------------------------------------------------ From PC World Finally -- a 'SlingBox' for Your Games Spawn lets you broadcast console games -- it supports PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, and GameCube, but not Wii — to distant computers. Harry McCracken, Technologizer The most potentially interesting thing I’ve seen so far at the TechCrunch50 conference is Spawn Labs’ Spawn HD720 box. It’s also one of the easier things to explain: Just as a SlingBox lets you redirect your TV signal to another PC on your home network or anywhere on the Internet, Spawn lets you broadcast console games–it supports PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, and GameCube, but not Wii–to distant computers. You can use it to play a game in another room when your TV is otherwise occupied, or to play a game remotely when you’re traveling–and you can even play against someone who’s in the living room using the console directly, or who’s in a third location. It all works via a $199.95 box (which goes on sale today) and adapters you plug into your computer to let you connect gamepads, and Spawn says it’ll work with any game for the consoles it supports. It worked well in the demo–which isn’t a given, since several TechCrunch50 debutantes haven’t–and if it does what it’s supposed to, it’s going to be cool. Spawn says that games look good and there’s virtually no latency on home networks and only a tiny bit over the Internet, but even the impressively-engineered SlingBox sometimes has trouble dealing with chokey real-world Internet connections. I’ll believe it when I play it. Even if it performs as advertised, it is, of course, another box to buy and install. Wouldn’t it be nifty if this feature was built into consoles–or if Spawn and Sling teamed up to sell one box that did both games and TV? http://www.pcworld.com/article/171976/finally_a_slingbox_for_your_games.html
I don't trust the net's burdened backbone with this. And isn't $199 too much? The price of a 360 Arcade model? The real drag however is having someone on standby at home to replace the DVDs in your machine.
I'm thinking = "Awesome way to demo new games (or old ones!) on a personal site." You all did notice the bit about being able to setup view-only clients, right? If Yakumo got one of these he could do RetroCore LIVE! -hl718
My work bought a Slingbox (standard one) to demo some TV apps via the web, but they found it too laggy and a bit of a pain.
They really want to make nerds even fatter. Now they don't even have to move to play video game systems hooked up to a different tv. God put a tv and a minifridge in the bathroom with this thing and you'd be set!
