Tag : hd tv, device, streaming placeshifting, hava wireless

Company : Monsoon HAVA List Price : $249.99 Amazon Price : Used Price : Average customer review :

Features

• Revolutionary TV placeshifting device delivers the freedom to watch home TV anywhere anytime
• Multiple users can simultaneously watch TV in DVD quality on multiple PCs wirelessly
• Multiple Users can watch TV in the home and from remote viewing, such as at the airport, at the same time
• Turn Windows Vista or Windows XP MEC PCs into PVRs/DVRs & record live TV programs to your PCs hard disk
• Eliminate the need for unsightly cables and make the setup easy

Product Description

HAVA Wireless HD is the premium video streaming and place-shifting device within the HAVA family. Create envy with friends and family as you extend your home theater by introducing DVD quality wireless TV around the home on PCs or laptops. Stream live TV programs from your HD set top box, DVD player or TiVo to multiple PCs simultaneously, and watch your favorite sporting event on the deck, in the family room, games room, or workshop using your existing WiFi network. HAVA creates a virtual networked TV Tuner on your PCs so you dont require TV connections in any of the rooms or on the deck to watch TV. HAVA lets access to your home theater from anywhere in world with a broadband Internet connected PC or cell phone. Either at home or on the road, you can pause, rewind, fast forward or record TV programs to your PCs hard disk. Easy to use with no changes to your network settings, the setup is a breeze enabling wireless TV freedom at home or abroad on a PC or mobile phone.
Windows Vista and Windows XP Media Center Edition Support HAVA creates a virtual networked TV Tuner for Windows Vista and XP MCE PCs that provide wireless TV and PVR functionality in any room in the house without requiring a TV connection in rooms where you wish to enjoy your Media Center experience.
Smooth Viewing Experience HAVA leverages proprietary wireless vBooster technology to deliver an optimal viewing experience. You can watch high quality video (full D1 MPEG-2) over existing wireless network on any number of Wi-Fi computers on the network. You can continue to use your wireless network for all the services you are used to (web browsing, chats, etc.), while watching high quality video wirelessly.
Ease of Use and Setup The entire setup process (both for wireless home viewing and remote viewing over the internet) is completed over the wireless network, from any client PC by running the setup wizard.

Customer reviews

Hava Wireless HD - But NOT HD Tuner.
The Hava Wireless HD Installed and setup quickly with little effort. I was able to stream the video within my network in a matter of a few minutes. Although it was in those few minutes that I realized that the Hava Wireless HD does not have an HD Tuner. The built in tuner is a standard definition (SD) and does not receive the HD signals.

It would seem to me that the claims made for this product do not live up to what the product does.

Buggy device, need to spend lot of time to make this work
1.Hava adds a network transfer stack on your NIC and often screws up your PC’s non-Hava transfer abilities. Uninstalling hava net-drivers is the cure.

2.Does not work well behind firewall. No tool from Hava to troubleshoot WAN streaming issues.

3.No way to install only the HAVA-Palyer. It comes bundled with tons of primary installation softwares and have to install all of them from the top to get the player installed.

4.The Wirelss capabilities are very lame, no way to have this work as AP.

I guess they are working on making Hava wireless secure.

5.The Hava set-top box front lights are lame. 3 lights with No label/text. Only they know what these lights means. No documentations.

Its more of waste of time to make this thing to work then the onetime cost of 190-250. A true tech nightmare.