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HAVA Platinum HD TV Device | 
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| Brand: Monsoon Multimedia
Category: CE
List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $79.99
You Save: $70.00 (47%)
Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 484
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: MS Windows XP Media Center compatible
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
MPN: 052507HP
Model: 052507HP
UPC: 094922731005
EAN: 0094922731005
ASIN: B000UJE1O2
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Lets you stream television content via your home network and watch from anywhere with a broadband internet connection | | • | Automatically adjusts video encoding for smooth video, no matter the network activity | | • | Functions as a PVR, letting you record, pause, and rewind live television | | • | Works as a virtual TV Tuner with Windows Media Center PCs | | • | Backed by a 1-year warranty |
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Product Description
If you are looking to improve your home theater experience, the HAVA Platinum HD is a natural fit. By connecting any of your HD video sources directly to HAVA you now have the ability to stream your live TV programs to multiple PC's simultaneously around the home using your existing home network. If you have Media Center PC's, HAVA will allow you to watch TV on them without requiring a TV Tuner card installed or even a TV connection in that room. HAVA Platinum HD enables any network connected PC to pause, rewind, fast forward and even record your favorite TV shows to your PC's hard disk. If archiving of your favorite shows is important, then use the HAVA software client to burn them onto a DVD. Don't leave your home theater experience at home, HAVA Platinum HD allows you watch and control you home TV, set top box or DVD player from anywhere in the world from a broadband Internet connected PC or mobile phone.
Amazon.com Product Description
The Monsoon HAVA Platinum HD lets you extend your home theater experience within your home and beyond! The HAVA accepts an HD video source and streams it throughout your home in DVD-quality video. You can also watch and control programming on any PC or mobile phone with a broadband Internet connection. You can also use your PC as a PVR by recording your favorite programs onto a hard disk for playback at a later time, and you can watch TV from a Media Center PC without a TV tuner installed.  | The Monsoon HAVA Platinum HD: - Streams your HD television programming throughout your home network in DVD-quality video.
- Automatically adjusts the encoding for smooth video delivery depending on your network bandwidth.
- Lets you watch local programming on your cell phone or from anywhere else you have broadband Internet.
- Works as a PVR, letting you record, pause, rewind, and fast forward live television.
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You'll have control of your A/V components from your computer, complete with customizable virtual remote. View larger. | 
Connect your A/V sources to the HAVA and stream the content throughout your home. View larger. | Stream Live Programming Around Your House
By connecting your HD video source to the HAVA Platinum HD, you can stream live television to multiple PCs around your house using your home network. You no longer need to worry about TV connections and set-top boxes. Programming comes in at DVD-quality wherever you are in your home, and multiple users around your house can watch/record the same program at the same time thanks to VBooster Multicast technology. View Television Remotely From Virtually Anywhere
The HAVA Platinum HD allows you to watch your local television programming, or other connected A/V device, from anywhere in the world with a broadband Internet connection. As you are watching, other members of the household can also watch the same programming on the home network. You can even remotely control the settings for virtually any A/V device, including PVRs, satellite TV, and digital cable boxes; a customizable virtual remote will show up on screen allowing for complete control of the device. It's like having a remote control that works everywhere! Works as a PVR!
The HAVA Platinum HD can also function as a PVR. You can record, pause, fast forward, and rewind live TV right on your computer. Recorded shows are stored on your PC's hard drive. After you've recorded shows, you can burn them onto DVD for archiving or viewing during those instances when you don't have an Internet connection. The HAVA works out of the box with Microsoft MCE, or you can install the included PVR software for non-MCE PCs. 
Using the HAVA mobile player software, you can watch television on your cell phone. | Compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Media Center PCs and Notebooks
When you connect HAVA Platinum HD to your network, you are in essence creating a virtual TV tuner for Media Center PCs. This eliminates the need for a separate TV tuner card, and the need for any hard-wired cable connection. High-Quality Viewing
By employing the standard MPEG-2 format, the HAVA Platinum HD achieves the best possible video quality over a home network. Television programming that is streamed through your home network boasts DVD-quality clarity. The video is also simultaneously encoded with the MPEG-4 standard, which has a higher compression and allows for remote viewing over a broadband Internet connection by a single client. Thanks to the VBooster technology, all the users on the home network can experience high-quality video. While watching video, users can simultaneously use the Internet for regular uses such as web browsing, email, chatting, printing, transferring files, etc. The encoding is automatically adjusted based on the available bandwidth to ensure steady and smooth video all the time. The HAVA Platinum HD requires a home network with a 10/100 base-T router with an available Ethernet port, a broadband Internet connection (300Kbps upstream recommended) for remote viewing, and a PC with Windows XP/Vista and a minimum of an Intel Pentium 1.2 GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM for XP and 1GB of RAM for Vista, 75 MB of disk space for the HAVA software, an Ethernet connection, DirectX 9-class video card, and an audio output. The HAVA Platinum HD is backed by a 1-year warranty. What's in the Box
HAVA Platinum HD unit, two composite cables, Ethernet cable, power supply, IR blaster cable, two component cables, quick start guide, software CD.
Stream television to computers in your home, or to your cell phone wherever you are. |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
 Great for recording video games. January 7, 2009
E. Gallardo
I do some online competitions with my Xbox 360 and this device was the best (and cheapest) method to record games in near hd quality. I could not find anything that would come close to the Hava for the same price. I originally purchased the Titanium and had problems with it. When I contacted Hava Support they explained to me that many of the Titanium's went out with bad chips. So I have been using the Platinum for about 6 months and I think it was money well spent. Also, it is about $40 dollars cheaper now than what I paid for it.
 HAVA - Slingbox alternative January 6, 2009
M. Sehgal (Pittsburgh, PA)
I don't have a cable box and this does not have a direct cable co-axial input as does the more pricey Slingbox. However once I got it set to a cable box - installion was intutive and less than 45 min. Have used it internationally and it has a better quality than the Slingbox I have used ith the past.
Would recommend - I purchased for $109
Great value, really enjoy this device November 4, 2008
T. D. Perdue (Urbandale, IA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was looking around at different options for watching TV on my computers and I came across this in google. The price was right, so I went ahead and bought one with overnight shipping and I've been really happy with it.
I plugged it into the ethernet jack I had behind my TV and wired it up to my DISH network receiver and powered it up. Back on my desktop PC, I simply installed the software and it auto-detected the device on my network and walked through a setup process very easily.
I also installed the client software on both of my laptops which have wireless cards. I can now sit outside and watch dish network on my laptop while the kids play in the sandbox. I'm doing it right now.
Great work on this device - especially for the price and the capability. The only problems I've had is that it started stuttering and dropping frames a lot so I unplugged it and plugged it back in and it hasn't done it since. I also could not make the remote control work with my dish receiver until I got tech support help.
One of the reviews here said the support was bad, but I received an email back with the correct answer within an hour, and then later that night another person emailed me back again with the correct answer (multiple people emailing back seems wasteful, but it's better than being ignored). The problem was that my dish receiver was set up for remote #9, but the hava only transmits on remote #1, so you have to reset your dish receiver to accept remote #1 codes. This wasn't too hard and I found the dish user manual with google.
Overall I really like this gadget. I use it all day long at my desk and when I'm on my laptop in my back yard.
Hava TV Shifter - Perfect right out of the box ! September 30, 2008
A. C. Perrins (Marin County, CA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I checked out other user reviews of this product before purchase and went ahead anyway. I am so glad I did. HAVA Platinum HD TV Device
This product works perfectly.
It installed easily first time. It DID come with component cables. The picture on the telly IS 1080 using the pass-through cable. The image on my Vista laptop is fabulous even at full-screen when used with my wireless network at home. When remote the picture degrades of course, but the most important thing is that I can still watch ALL the Hi-Def channels that I am paying Comcast so dearly for. A really nice touch here (which shows attention to detail so rare these days) there is an on-screen replica of my Comcast remote which works EXACTLY like the one at home.
PERFECT.
Better than Slingbox! May 17, 2008
djk1940 (Asheville, NC USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have owned a Slingbox PRO for over a year, and was fairly happy with it ... until I got the Hava Platinum HD. Not only does Hava have a better picture than Slingbox, it also has more features, and is less expensive. Those additional features include being able to watch a program over more than one computer at a time, plus a feature that essentially turns your computer into a DVR with DVD copying capability. This DVR capability provides independent control to each computer to pause, stop or fast forward the video...and it gets around the time delay of having to send those type of commands to a DVR cable box using the Hava virtual remote control. Or, you can simply copy the video onto your hard drive, watch it later ... or copy it onto a DVD, making Hava much more versatile than the Slingbox.
Of course Hava does not display a true HD video...HD is converted to a wide screen 480i format, just like that on a commercial DVD, and the resulting video has a quality close to that of a DVD.
I was also impressed by the Hava support. The virtual remote on Slingbox stopped working for all Moxi DVR users when Moxi upgraded their firmware. Slingbox has not been able to upgrade their firmware to fix this problem, while Hava did came up with a software patch that fixed it.
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