I bought this to replace a Slingbox Pro which quit working for all but the component source. Before that I had a Slingbox Classic which worked perfectly until I was duped into buying the Pro. For remote viewing the classic was every bit the equal to the Pro. Because of this and other issues(only 1 viewer, no recording, complicated set-up)I decided to jump ship and boy am I glad I did.
The picture quality is superb. Not HD of course. Anyone with some common sense should know the US doesn't yet have the bandwidth for streaming true HD video. Compared to the SB Pro it's nite and day. Hava seems to have made a bit of a trade off in that they sacrifice frame rate for video compression. It uses MP4 remotely as opposed to the highly inefficient wmv stream Sling uses. While I'm experiencing a little stuttering, each frame is devoid of any compression artifacts and that's while running at 350-500 kbps, the wifi cap at my workplace. The Slingboxes would produce terrible artifacting even when I would get 700 kbps spikes. I get up 8 mbps localy while my SB Pro averaged around 3.5 mbps. Lastly the audio on my Slingboxes was always out of sync. Haven't had that ploblem yet with the Hava.
I was a little reticent about this purchase since I got mine slightly used(though at an extreme bargain)but it was a breeze to set up and worked right away. It could take hours with the Sling devices requiring me to get into my router and setup port forwarding and make notes of all the IP's that I would have to enter into the Slingbox network properties. Not so with the Hava. I accessed my router only to see if it was in the DHCP list only to verify it was being detected by my network.
Finally I like the looks of the Hava better. I think it's admirable that Sling tried to be stylish but they just look out of place in a rack so I would hide mine which sort of defeats the purpose of trying to be avant garde. The Hava's drawback is the bright blue lights on the front so it's hidden as well.



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