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The Monsoon HAVA Titanium HD WiFi lets you extend your home theater experience within your home and beyond! Now you can wirelessly stream your live TV over your home network, and watch and control programming from your HD video source on any PC or mobile phone. You can turn your PC into a DVR by recording your favorite programs onto a hard disk or an externally connected USB hard disk for playback at a later time. HAVA also enables TV functionality on a Media Center PC without having a TV tuner installed in the PC. With WiFi built in, there are no ugly cables to worry about and setup is a breeze. Wirelessly Stream Live TV Around Your House By connecting your HD video source to the HAVA Titanium HD WiFi, you can wirelessly stream live television to multiple PCs and other WiFi devices around your house using your existing 802.11g wireless home network. You no longer require TV connections and set-top boxes in each room. While streaming live wireless TV at DVD-quality, multiple users can watch, pause, rewind, fast forward or record the same program independently and simultaneously. View Your Home Television From Anywhere In The World The HAVA Titanium HD WiFi allows you to watch and control your live home TV programming, or other connected A/V devices, from anywhere in the world over a broadband internet connection on your notebook PC, cell phone or other mobile devices. While remotely watching your home TV, other members of the household can also watch TV on their PCs around the home at the same time. Remotely control any A/V device, including DVRs, Satellite Set Top and Cable Set Top boxes, DVD players and video cameras as if you were sitting on your sofa with your favorite remote control in hand. Two USB Ports For Additional Storage & Functionality The HAVA Titanium HD WiFi has two built-in USB ports, allowing for peripheral upgrade possibilities. By connecting an external USB hard disk record hours or full series

Brand: Monsoon Model: 052507HT Platform: Windows Format: CD Dimensions: 10.25" h x 3.75" w x 13.75" l, 3.35 pounds CPU: AMD Athlon 1 GHz Memory: 128000MB DRAM Hard Disk: 0GB Graphics: This is the description of the PC Graphics 256MB Processors: 1 Native resolution: 640x480 Display size: 669.2913385827 Lets you wirelessly 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 Two USB ports allows you to add an external hard drive and upgrade the wireless capability from 802.11g to 802.11n Backed by a 1-year warranty

Amazon.com Product Description The Monsoon HAVA Titanium HD WIFI lets you extend your home theater experience, both within your home and beyond! With WiFi built in, the HAVA accepts an HD video source and wirelessly 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. .caption { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica neue, Arial, serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; } ul.indent { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: 20px; } table.callout { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, serif; margin: 10px; width: 250; } td.callout { height: 100 percent; background: #9DC4D8 url(http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/electronics/detail-page/callout-bg.png) repeat-x; border-left: 1px solid #999999; border-right: 1px solid #999999; padding: 10px; width: 250px; } ul.callout { list-style: inside disc; text-indent: -12px; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5em; } h5.callout { text-align: center; } The Monsoon HAVA Titanium HD WiFi: Wirelessly streams your HD television programming through your home network. 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. Has additional USB port that can support an external hard drive for PVR recording. You'll have control of your A/V components from your computer, complete with customizable virtual remote. View larger. Wireless networking is built-in, so you can stream your video throughout your home without any cables. View larger. Wirelessly Stream Live Programming Around Your House By connecting your HD video source to the HAVA Titanium HD WIFI, you can wirelessly stream live television to multiple PCs around your house using your home network. The video is streamed wireless via an 802.11g network, and the Titanium HD WIFI automatically adjusts the encoding based on dynamic calculation of the bandwidth to ensure smooth video to all clients on the network. In addition to the wireless, there are also wired Ethernet connections available. 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 Titanium HD WIFI allows you to watch your local television programming, or programming from another 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 Titanium 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, or on an external USB drive (sold separately). 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 Titanium HD WIFI 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. Two USB Ports for Upgradeability The Titanium HD WIFI has two built-in USB ports, allowing for upgrade possibilities. The wireless functionality is provided by a USB 802.11g dongle, and this can be optionally upgraded with a USB 802.11n dongle to stream higher quality video. You can also connect an external USB hard drive for use with recording shows. High-Quality Viewing By employing the standard MPEG-2 format, the HAVA Titanium HD WIFI achieves the best possible video quality over a home wireless network. (Of course, you can also view using wired connections if you have any computers that lack wireless capability.) 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 Titanium HD requires a home network with either a 10/100 base-T router with an available Ethernet port or a wireless connection, 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 or 802.11g wireless capability, DirectX 9-class video card, and an audio output. The HAVA Titanium HD WIFI is backed by a 1-year warranty. What's in the Box HAVA Titanium HD WIFI unit, two composite cables, Ethernet cable, power adapter, IR blaster cable, two component cables, 802.11g wireless dongle, quick start guide, software CD. Stream television to computers in your home, or to your cell phone wherever you are.

Most helpful customer reviews 81 of 83 people found the following review helpful. Very good value Slingbox HD competitor that doesn't nickel and dime you for add-ons By David Pearlman I am a HUGE fan of the Slingbox Pro, another video broadcast device which is the direct competition to this unit (see my review of the Slingbox Pro elsewhere). It is the rare internet based appliance that does exactly what it promises, with minimal headaches and excellent support. What I don't like about the Slingbox Pro is that they nickel and dime you to death for add ons. Want wireless? You'll have to pay for that. Want to actually use the high definition capabilities of the "HD Pro" Slingbox? That'll cost you another $50 for a proprietary dongle. Want to watch your Slingbox on a cell phone? That also extra. The HAVA includes all those options in the package AND it's cheaper to boot. In addition, the HAVA offers capabilities not available on the Slingbox, namely the ability to stream to up to three devices simultaneously (Slingbox only streams to one device at a time) and the ability to record to an attached hard drive (option), to act as a low budget DVR (I didn't test this). So far, so great. But the question is: How well does it work. The answer is, mostly, very well. Setup is not quite as slick as for the Slingbox (which is incredibly easy), but I found it straightforward and not particularly time consuming. Once setup (using their setup program), and having connected my Tivo Series 3 high definition box, I was ready to see how it worked in the field. The first test was using a PC elsewhere in my home. The connection there is very strong, and not unexpectedly, given the good bitrate, the picture was excellent. (Note that although this is marketed as "high definition" it's actualy the low definition version of high definition, 720 x 480--a limitation of wireless among other things). The picture was strong and constant--no stuttering or other snags. Of course, this was an easy test, since the wireless signal is excellent. The better test was to see how the remote software player dealt with poor or mediocre bit streams. To test this, I took both my laptop and my Windows Mobile phone to a local coffee shop where the wireless connection is only fair. Trying out the laptop first, I found the video to be pretty good. On occasion the video would stall, but it was mostly smooth and DEFINITELY very watchable. As is the case with Slingbox, the viewing software appeared capable of reducing the resolution as the bitrate fell (the picture got softer when the bitrate fell). I had the same experience watching on my Windows Mobile phone. For comparison, I also viewed my Slingbox remotely from the same location. The picture quality was generally comparable, although if pushed to the wall I would say that the Slingbox picture was perhaps a little better. But it was certainly not a substantial difference. On the whole, I found the HAVA + player software to be nearly as good as the Slingbox. Now, if they were comparably priced, I'd suggest going with the Slingbox. However, given that the HAVA player gives you several options for free that Slingbox charges for, and offers two functionalities not available at all on the Slingbox (stream to more than one device at a time, connection to a USB hard drive) I am inclined to recommend the HAVA. 58 of 58 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Video Quality, Reasons to Love, Reasons to Cry By Truth Teller This device simultaneously exceeded my expectations and failed to meet them. Let me start with the bottom line of whether or not you should buy this device. Buy IF: - You want good quality streaming video - You want to watch this from a Windows PC. - You want to watch this from a Windows mobile device or one of the other supported mobile phones. - You have a wired LAN. - You run your TV signal through a box of some sort (even a vcr works). - You don't mind doing some cable re-wiring on your home theater.