Why wait for Twitch? Here’s one way you can stream from your Xbox One today

The Xbox One will soon have the capability to stream games to Twitch. Microsoft plans to add this to its next-gen hardware in early 2014. But if you want to broadcast Xbox One gameplay to the web any time before that, you’ll need some extra hardware.

One of the devices capable of enabling that is the HD PVR Rocket from Hauppauge, which runs $170. This is the newest capture device on the market, and it is hitting right at a time when the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are launching with built-in features to handle gameplay recording. We decided to test out the Rocket to see if something like this still makes sense and how it compares to Xbox One’s built-in GameDVR.