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The New Wireless solution for high quality home viewing, multicasting and remote viewing. Watch your TV on a PC/Notebook anywhere in your house up to 300 feet from your HAVA Box. Transmit and watch video anywhere in the world via the internet. Simply connect your HAVA Box to your TV or set top box at home, with no messy wires to your Access Point/Router. HAVA Wireless HD allows you to watch your TV content just about anywhere. HAVA connects wirelessly, being detected, in the case of homes with a Windows XP Media Center Edition PC, as a wireless TV tuner. HAVA streams video content from cable, satellite, DVD, TiVo, camcorder or any other video source in MPEG-2 to multiple PCs in one wireless network or remotely in MPEG-4 to any PC connected to the internet. Since HAVA enables the PC to act as a digital video recorder, the content can be time-shifted or burned onto a DVD. HAVA comes HD ready. Home Viewing Over The Home Wireless Network - Watch your television programming in DVD quality anywhere in your home, wirelessly.
- Supports multiple users who can each watch/record the same program simultaneously over the home network through our patent-pending VBooster Multicast technology.
- Eliminates the installation of TV connections and the expense of set-top boxes in every room.
- Quality of Service algorithm ensures smooth delivery of video and audio to all clients, or any priority client the user may select.
- Remote Viewing Over The Internet
- Watch your local television programming from anywhere in the world with a broadband internet connection.
- Other members of the household can watch the same programming at DVD quality on the wireless home network simultaneously.
- Out-of-Sight Remote Control: HAVA provides full control from the PC for virtually any type of A/V device, including PVRs, digital cable boxes, and satellite TV receivers.
Microsoft Windows XP Media Center PC compatibility - Support for MCE users who do not have a tuner, delivering video streams that allow the MCE PC to treat HAVA as a wireless tuner; thereby adding full multimedia capabilities to your MCE PC.
- DVD Quality Video: HAVA uses a high-performance video compression chipset and utilizes the standard MPEG-2 (and optionally MPEG-4) format to provide the best possible video quality and DVD compatibility over the home wireless network. Furthermore, the chip is capable of simultaneously encoding the video source at low data rates using the MPEG-4 format for remote viewing over a broadband internet connection by a single client.
- Smooth Viewing Experience: HAVA leverages proprietary wireless optimizations utilizing its VBooster technology to deliver an optimal viewing experience.
- Users can watch high quality video (up to 30Mbps full D1 MPEG-2) over their existing 802.11a/g wireless network on any number of Wi-Fi computers on the network (“multicast”)
- Users can continue to use their wireless network for all the services they are used to (web browsing, e-mail, chats, printing, file transfer, etc.), while watching high quality video wirelessly. VBooster, while introducing powerful new functionality, leaves your existing 802.11a/g network intact. It is fully compatible with the 802.11 standard.
- Automatic adjustment of encoder parameters based on dynamic calculation of the available wireless bandwidth, to ensure smooth delivery of the video stream to all the clients on the network.
Ease of Use and Setup: The automatic device discovery and setup wizard ensures a very positive user experience. 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. There is no need to connect HAVA with a wired Ethernet hookup, an impractical scenario in most homes.
Product Specification
Device Features
1. A/V capture from built-in TV Tuner or A/V base-band inputs (Composite, S-Video, Component)
2. Built-in hardware MPEG encoder - MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 advanced simple profile
- Dynamic bitrate and frame rate adjustment
3. TV Tuner - Supports worldwide (PAL and NTSC) TV standards.
- Built-in splitter allows for HAVA to be tuned to a channel independently from the TV set. E.g.one channel can be watched on the TV while another channel is being streamed by HAVA.
4. Base-Band Audio/Video Inputs - RCA Composite Video
- RCA Left and Right Audio
- S-Video
- Component Y-Pb-Pr
5. Pass-through Outputs for every Audio/Video input for connection to TV set or other A/V equipment
6. Macrovision detection
7. Networking - Wireless 802.11 (g standard, dual-band a/g optional) interface with 2 external antennas
- Joins home Wireless Network by connecting to existing Access Point
- Can also act as a Wireless Access Point (should be connected to the broadband router for internet access)
- WEP Encryption supported (WPA support available in the future software upgrades)
- Wired Ethernet (802.3) 10/100 Interface
8. Wireless Configuration Ethernet cable is not required for the fist time configuration. Device is configured wirelessly from a PC using supplied Setup Wizard software 9. Front panel LEDs 10. IR Emitter for set-top box control
PC Client
Driver on the PC represents the HAVA device as "Virtual" WDM TV Tuner device, fully compatible with
Windows Media Center Setup for configuring HAVA wirelessly The Setup Wizard wirelessly locates the HAVA device and automatically connects to it for configuration b. The Setup Wizard provides a UI for the user to enter the wireless network settings (SSID and encryption key) so that HAVA can join the home wireless network or act as an Access Point PVR Application - HAVA is compatible and can be used out of the box with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition or any other MCE compatible PVR application
- Monsoon HAVA PC Client is provided for non-MCE configurations.
PC Client Requirements - Operating System: Windows XP (Home, Pro or MCE) or VISTA
 - System RAM: 256MB
- Storage: 512MB
- Wireless LAN-equipped PC (for wireless mode)
- Ethernet equipped PC (for wired mode)
Special Features All special features listed below are powered by Monsoon's patent-pending VBooster technology. This technology drastically improves the performance of the wireless link between the HAVA device and PC clients by doubling the bandwidth that is normally available in the typical infrastructure home network configuration. No 802.11 standards are violated or compromised, so the user doesn't have to change network settings on their PC. - High quality full D1 MPEG-2 video, regardless of the performance of the existing Access Point (802.11 g or a)
- Multicast to multiple clients at once (no intrinsic limit on number of clients)
- Dynamic video quality adjustment based on available wireless bandwidth
- Internet browsing, e-mail, chat and access to other standard applications off the home network can be run simultaneously with video streaming from HAVA At-home Requirements
- DHCP-enabled wireless 802.11a/g router/Access Point recommended (not required if HAVA used as an Access Point)
- TV source: antenna, analog cable, digital cable box, satellite receiver or PVR such as Tivo, ReplayTV, DISH, etc.
- Broadband internet connectivity for remote viewing (recommended 300Kbps upstream)
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User's Manuals & Guides Here are some key Quotes from recent reviews- This TV place-shifter is simple to set up, easy to use, and offers excellent video quality (PC World)
- Hava Wireless HD's combination of built-in wireless and Windows Media Center integration makes it one of the more promising Slingbox competitors (CNET)
- Although the HAVA Wireless HD may be short on looks, it’s long on slick features, and the performance is right in line with its higher-profile competitors. (CPU Magazine)
- Hava Wireless: a better alternative for Windows Media Center owners (CNET)
  
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