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Spawn HD-720 Is Like a Slingbox For Your Console Games

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Shadowlayer
10/10/09

In reply to Spawn HD-720 Is Like a Slingbox For Your Console Games
Sorry but at $200 bucks its too expensive, plus they still have some major problems to iron out of it.

By the time it will be up and running as intended, most game companies will have their own version, killing this company in a sec.
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DemonOfTheFall
09/14/09

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Interesting idea... for me I don't think the single game limitation would be a huge factor. I usually play a game through to completion before I move on to the next. The laptop I carry for work isn't good for any modern games but its more than enough for 720p video so that is appealing and gaming in my hotel room each night while traveling for work is VERY appealing.

However, my hotel internet connection is 9 out of 10 times either painfully slow or painfully restricted. Unfortunately the places I would really want to use this are probably the places I can't.
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UnderLoK
09/15/09

@DemonOfTheFall: I ended up getting work to pay for a Sprint cell card simply because I was so sick and tired of not getting reliable internet in hotels.
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Joshua Bardwell
09/14/09

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Only one question... why does it take a 3rd party appliance to do this? It could be implemented entirely in software in the console, with a PC client to connect to the controller via USB.
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UnderLoK
09/15/09

@Joshua Bardwell: He did talk about it, but didn't explain it. You can't do it with software only as the latency would be way too high.
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UnderLoK
09/14/09

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I was watching when they were on T50 and when they started to talk about delay I lost all interest. Even on a LAN expect 85-95ms latency. If you're on the net, forgot about it...

Cool idea though, but until they get it down sub 65ms like the guy mentioned I don't see it working.
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b33rl0rd
09/14/09

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Hmmm. I assume that one COULD do this yourself by redirecting input from a video capture card to say, a NoMachine client. The catch would be transmitting commands. But for the XBox at least, it's just USB. That would be the hard part. I'd freakin' love this since I have a bunch of XBLA games, but not enough to drop $200. Unsure how one could match this on the homebrew front.
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bounce37421
09/14/09

@b33rl0rd: but would this work w/ games directly installed on hd if so maybe worth 200
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UnderLoK
09/15/09

@bounce37421: How could it change the HD thing? It's a separate box that encodes video and passes controls.
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