Spawn Labs HD-720 - Couch Co-Op Without the Couch?
Here's a new one for you!
We've all heard of OnLive, right? The service that will let you stream the audio and video outputs of your favorite single-player games to your computer, using remote equipment for the actual processing?
Spawn Labs wants to go a little bit farther than that: the HD-720 is a platform that supposedly connects your video game console to your broadband connection, so that you can stream your games remotely to you. Furthermore, this new technology can reportedly stream the same output to multiple locations, turning an offline-only or splitscreen game (couch co-op, as we like to call it) into an online co-op game.
Oddly, the HD-720 only supports the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo GameCube (yes, you read that correctly). Controller adapters -- each of which are specific to one console type -- cost $29.95 apiece, and the unit itself runs $199.95.
While this tech certainly seems cool, its sudden appearance on the market and its "$XX.95" pricing reek of an As Seen On TV product that just barely missed the Billy Mays boat. Either way, bringing gamers together in new and inventive ways is definitely co-op; we'll watch this if anything good comes of it.
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Don't know how it works (how we find partners to play with), but if we need 1/2 of these devices, and a gamepad for one (because I already have one, get it?), then it would cost lots (as in 42-78.000 HUF). Now with that money I could buy something else, or bring my friends tons of time over my place, buy a pizza and play
If by some reason I would use this, it would be that my friend could play on MY X360 remotely, and I could play on his PS3 remotely. So this way we could play on each other's consoles
your spawn labs box will convert your console's video signal to a streamed video and send it over the net. your friend's spawn labs box will receive this signal and pass it on to his tv. meanwhile, your friend's spawn labs box will send his controller signal over the net to your box, which passes it on to your console. you'll both see the same image ie, splitscreen.
but as others have said, the real problem is owning an internet connection that can broadcast hd video. a lot of connections cant even stream HD content live nevermind broadcast it.
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"Remote play in standard definition requires a minimum bandwidth of 500kbps per remote player, and a recommended bandwidth of 1Mbps per remote player. Remote play in high definition requires a minimum bandwidth of 2Mbps per remote player, and a recommended bandwidth of 3-5Mbps per remote player."
For my area (Kansas City and Lawrence, Kan), there isn't anyone who even offers a plan with more than 2mbps upload speed, and even those speeds aren't guaranteed. The vast majority of plans are 768kbps or 1mbps. And no one ever actually gets the advertised upload speed. I would be very surprised if the majority of people had an upload speed fast enough for two people to remote play at even standard definition without crippling latency.
OnLive faces this problem with consumer download speeds, but Spawn thinks they can do something similar while depending on consumer upload speeds? They're crazy.