Hava Platinum HD Tv Placeshifting Dvr Pvr

by Monsoon

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 3.8 x 10.2 inches ; 3.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002AVXDWE
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: 062508CHP
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (57 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2004

Product Description

Hava Platinum HD Watch and control your live home TV from anywhere in the world on a broadband connected PC or cell phone. Record TV programs to your PC hard disk locally or remotely. No monthly fees!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great for watching tv on multiple computers, September 12, 2007

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James Leivers (New York,NY United States) - See all my reviews

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.

81 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 480i IS NOT HD!!!, January 1, 2008

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Frap Junkie (Ventura, CA USA) - See all my reviews

The name of this product is EXTREMELY deceptive. The package says "full DVD resolution" and "Full HD 1080". This product only streams 480i regardless of input (component or otherwise). 480i IS NOT HD! It is NOT as good as 480P DVD. It is STANDARD DEFINITION!!! To make matters worse, the HAVA doesn't even do a good job with 480i! The HAVA with component input produced a visibly inferior picture compared to my STANDARD DEFINITION Hauppage PVR-150 with s-video input! Interlacing artifacts on the HAVA were also clearly visible. Additionally, network issues resulted in unreliable scheduled recordings. (This is not necessarily the HAVA's fault, but it affected the reliability of recordings nonetheless.) The bottom line... The HAVA may be useful as a place shifter, but that's about all. :(

23 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better than Slingbox!, May 17, 2008

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djk1940 "Don" (Asheville, NC USA) - See all my reviews

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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.