Detailed Product Description
HAVA is a revolutionary TV place-shifting device that allows you to watch and control live home TV from broadband Internet or data network connected PC or mobile phone. HAVA lets you watch your live home TV in multiple rooms around the house, at work, or around the globe.
By simply connecting HAVA to any TV or video source, HAVA will stream the live TV signal over your home network to any connected PC or mobile phone. If you are a traveler and have access to the Internet, your laptop or mobile phone will easily connect to your home network, allowing you to watch, control and record your live TV programs. HAVA enables PVR and time-shifting functionality on your PC, so you can pause, rewind, fast forward live TV programs or record live TV directly to the PCs hard disk for viewing at a more convenient time.
Hava Titanium HD WIFI WiFi is the latest addition to our HAVA family. It sports 2 USB ports and allows you to connect the included USB 802.11g wireless dongle giving you the wireless capability of the HAVA Wireless HD but more flexibility. In the future you can connect the latest wireless 802.11n dongles which will give you blazing fast video streaming and true HD video; or you can connect a USB hard drive and store and retrieve all your multimedia-video; or connect a digital video tuner that enables you to tune in free over-the-air HD channels and watch them anywhere, anytime.
Like our other HAVA products, you can watch your home TV content in any room in the house or in your hotel room on your PC or mobile phone. The video streaming in the house is through a wireless connection through the home router, and in the hotel room its over the Internet. There is a bundled remote control on the PC screen that allows you to control your set top box, TIVO or any other video source. You can also use HAVAs recording functionality to record your favorite channels.
- Wireless TV viewing around the house
- External USB hard disk support (Coming soon)
- 802.11g & (802.11n available soon)
- Pause, rewind, fast forward and record favorite live TV shows
- Burn TV shows to DVD
- Stream TV programs to multiple PCs simultaneously around your home
- Use Microsoft Media Center PCs to watch TV wirelessly throughout your home
- Watch TV on PCs in your home and from abroad at the same time
- Connect any HD video source
Device Features
- A/V capture base-band inputs (Composite, S-Video, Component)
- Built-in hardware MPEG encoder (ViXS Xcode 2105)
- Market leading MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile formats.
- Can encode incoming video stream simultaneously into 2 different output formats. This allows local viewing at home, and remote viewing over the internet, simultaneously.
- Dynamic bit rate and frame rate adjustment. This ensures best quality video and audio without hiccup, at all times.
- Base-Band Audio/Video Inputs
- Composite Video
- Left and Right Audio
- S-Video
- Component Y-Pb-Pr
- Auxiliary Audio (currently not supported in software yet)
- Pass-through Outputs for every A/V input for connection to TV set or other A/V equipment.
- Allows for convenient end-user installation in existing home theater setup.
- Note: no pass-through Output for the Auxiliary Audio.
- Macrovision detection (not currently supported yet in the HAVA software).
- Networking: Wired Ethernet (802.3) 10/100 Interface.
- Two USB 2.0 ports for use of peripherals such as hybrid TV tuner, 802.11g wireless adapter or external storage.
Note: the USB ports are powered but not sufficiently for external storage peripherals. These will require their own power source when used with HAVA Titanium HD WIFI with USB.
- Front panel LEDs
- IR Emitter for set-top box control.
Note: Learning Remote function through one of the LEDs not currently available in the HAVA software.
- Connectors (all located on the back panel)
- A/V Input/output mini-phone jacks - 1 Vp-p, 75 Ohm video, 10 dBV, 47 kOhm audio
- S-Video Input/output jacks - 1 Vp-p, 75 Ohm
- Y/Pr/Pb (HD) input/output mini phone jacks - 1 Vp-p, 75 Ohm component
- Auxiliary Audio mini-phone jack 10 dBV, 47 kOhm
- USB 2.0 (2 ports)
- 802.3 Ethernet RJ-45
- IR Blaster output
- Power 9V DC 1 Amp
PC Client
- Driver on the PC represents the HAVA Titanium HD WIFI device as "Virtual" WDM TV Tuner device, fully compatible with Windows Media Center under Windows XP and Windows Vista. This allows to fully enable the TV Feature of an MCE PC via the home network, without requiring a TV tuner and TV source connection on the PC.
- Setup for configuring HAVA Titanium HD WIFI
- The Setup Wizard locates the HAVA Titanium HD WIFI device and automatically connects to it for configuration
- Configuration includes selection of the set top box (STB) to ensure successful IR control, and configuration of the unit for remote viewing over the internet
- IR learning could be provided for cases where IR codes are not readily available for the STB. (Note: IR learning not currently implemented in HAVA software build)
- Remote viewing setup is fully automated and requires one push of a button on the Setup UI. (no manual port forwarding or firewall configuration on the router is required in almost all cases)
- PVR Application
- HAVA Titanium HD WIFI is compatible and can be used out of the box with Microsoft Media Center Edition (XP or Vista)
- Monsoon HAVA PC Client is provided for non-MCE configurations.
- PC Client Requirements
- Desktop or laptop computer with minimum Intel Pentium 1.2 GHz or equivalent (1.5 GHz or higher recommended)
- Operating System: Windows XP SP2 (Home, Pro or MCE) 32 bit, or Windows Vista (32/64 bit) (all versions)
- System RAM: 512MB for WinXP, 1GB for Vista
- Disk space: 75 MB to install the HAVA software; at least 500 MB for time-shifting; 10 GB recommended for recording
- 10/100 Ethernet equipped PC (for wired mode)
- Wireless 802.11g LAN-equipped PC (for wireless connection to HAVA or wireless cleints)
- Wired or wireless home router with available Ethernet port
- DirectX 9-class graphics card
- Audio output capability
- Home networking requirements
- 10/100 base-T router with available Ethernet port (wired connection to HAVA and clients)
- Wireless 802.11g home router (for wireless connection to HAVA or wireless clients)
- Broadband internet connectivity for remote viewing (recommended 300Kbps upstream)
Special Features
- High quality full D1 MPEG-2 video for home viewing and simultaneous CIF MPEG-4 for remote viewing over the internet
- Send your video content to multiple clients at once on the local network (number of simultaneous clients dependent on available local network bandwidth)
- Dynamic video quality adjustment based on available network 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 Titanium HD WIFI
At-home Requirements
- DHCP-enabled router recommended
- TV source: any analog video source, including but not limited to digital cable box receiver, satellite receiver, IPTV set top box, or PVR such as Tivo, ReplayTV, etc.
- Broadband internet connectivity for remote viewing (recommended 300Kbps upstream)