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HAVA Platinum HD TV Device

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Brand: Monsoon
Category: CE

List Price: $149.99
Buy New: $124.63
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 41 reviews
Sales Rank: 2,495

Format: CD
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: MS Windows XP Media Center compatible
Processors: 1
System Memory: 128000
Memory Type: DRAM
Hard Drive Size: 1
Graphics Card: This is the description of the PC Graphics
Graphics RAM: 256
Graphics Card Interface: AGP
Native Resolution: 640x480
Display Size: 669.2913385826772
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 13.8 x 3.8 x 10.3
Legal Disclaimer: Shipping is 3-5 days FedEx or UPS with tracking number. Brand New. Continental USA street address ONLY, we do not ship to P/O box, APO, AE, or international addresses

MPN: 052507HP
Model: 052507HP
UPC: 094922731005
EAN: 0094922731005
ASIN: B000UJE1O2

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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
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.


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.




Customer Reviews:
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5 out of 5 stars great for watching tv on multiple computers   September 12, 2007
James Leivers (New York,NY United States)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful

Great quality it sends tv signal over the internet. So in a house or office environment all the computers in the network can watch the same channel. On the computer you install software that allows you to watch and even record shows. This one is HD and the quality is really good. You can tell it is a mpg though. You'll see occasionally those bits and squares that come with that. Even when you watch full screen it looks great though. The faster the movement the more pixelated it looks especially on the fast moving letters but football looks good and so does tennis. There is at least a 3 second delay to what you are watching so you can't use it to play video games.


5 out of 5 stars Better than Slingbox!   May 17, 2008
djk1940 (Asheville, NC USA)
17 out of 22 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.



5 out of 5 stars Excellent product   October 24, 2009
Mark (New York, NY United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I am not an expert and I cannot tell if this is real hd or what. However I plugged it in a minute and it worked very well. The definition is very good, so is the sound. I am extremely satisfied.


5 out of 5 stars Stable and reliable   November 26, 2009
Michael (Virginia, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I use this regularly to access my Comcast DVR on my cell phone (Windows Mobile 6.1) or laptop (Windows Vista SP1). Infrared remote signals are generated from the software interface to control the DVR through an IR "bug" that is pointed towards the DVR. Very nice for transferring content (clips or full programs) first captured on my DVR to my computer. Functionality is stable and reliable, and both the firmware and supporting software are regularly updated by Hava. High quality streaming when accessed from my local network, reduced but acceptable quality when accessed over the internet. Very pleased with the price, performance, and vendor support of this product.


5 out of 5 stars Loving it!   March 18, 2009
Tom O'Toole (N Y C)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Just got this product from Amazon, it's a small simple amazing device. Extremly simple to set up and it works like a charm. But if you are a lucky owner of a Nokia N810 Internet tablet, then you will strike gold since Hava made a very nice player for the tablet and it works great. So if you are looking for a cheap and great video streamer the Hava is your best bet.

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