HAVA Platinum HD

If you are looking to improve your home theater experience, the HAVA Platinum HD is a natural fit. By connecting any of your HD video sources directly to HAVA you now have the ability to stream your live TV programs to multiple PC's simultaneously around the home using your existing home network. If you have Media Center PC's, HAVA will allow you to watch TV on them without requiring a TV Tuner card installed or even a TV connection in that room. HAVA Platinum HD enables any network connected PC to pause, rewind, fast forward and even record your favorite TV shows to your PC's hard disk. If archiving of your favorite shows is important, then use the HAVA software client to Burn them onto a DVD. Don't leave your home theater experience at home, HAVA Platinum HD allows you watch and control you home TV, set top box or DVD player from anywhere in the world from a broadband Internet connected PC or mobile phone.

Home Viewing Over The Home Network

• Watch your television programming in DVD quality anywhere in your home
• 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 wired 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 and Windows Vista Media Center PC compatibility

HAVA creates a virtual TV tuner for Media Center PC's, eliminating the need for both a TV Tuner to be installed in the PC and a TV connection in the room you wish enjoy your Media Center experience.

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. Watch your television programming in DVD quality anywhere in your home.

Smooth Viewing Experience

HAVA leverages proprietary VBooster technology to deliver an optimal viewing experience.

Users can watch high quality video (up to 30Mbps full D1 MPEG-2) over their home network on any number of computers (“multicast”).

Users can continue to use their home network for all the services they are used to (web browsing, e-mail, chats, printing, file transfer, etc.), while watching high quality video. VBooster, while introducing powerful new functionality, leaves your home network intact.

Automatic adjustment of encoder parameters based on dynamic calculation of the available network bandwidth, to ensure smooth delivery of the video stream to all the clients on the network.

Device Features

1. A/V capture base-band inputs (Composite, S-Video, Component)
2. Built-in hardware MPEG encoder (ViXS Xcode 2105)
   1. Market leading MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile formats
   2. Can encode incoming video stream simultaneously into 2 different output formats
      This allows local viewing at home, and remote viewing over the internet, simultaneously
   3. Dynamic bit rate and frame rate adjustment
      This ensures best quality video and audio without hiccup, at all times
3. Base-Band Audio/Video Inputs
   1. Composite Video
   2. Left and Right Audio
   3. S-Video
   4. Component Y-Pb-Pr
   5. Auxiliary Audio (currently not supported in software yet)
4. Pass-through Outputs for every A/V input for connection to TV set or other A/V equipment.
   1. Allows for convenient end-user installation in existing home theater setup.
   2. Note: no pass-through Output for the Auxiliary Audio
5. Macrovision detection (not currently supported yet in the HAVA software)
6. Networking: Wired Ethernet (802.3) 10/100 Interface
7. Front panel LEDs
8. IR Emitter for set-top box control
9. Connectors
   1. A/V Input/output mini-phone jacks - 1 Vp-p, 75 Ohm video, 10 dBV, 47 kOhm audio
   2. S-Video Input/output jacks - 1 Vp-p, 75 Ohm
   3. Y/Pr/Pb (HD) input/output mini phone jacks - 1 Vp-p, 75 Ohm component
   4. Auxiliary Audio mini-phone jack 10 dBV, 47 kOhm
   5. 802.3 Ethernet RJ-45
   6. IR Blaster output
   7. Power — 9V DC 1 Amp

PC Client

1. Driver on the PC represents the HAVA Platinum HD 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.
2. Setup for configuring HAVA PLATINUM HD
   1. The Setup Wizard locates the HAVA Platinum HD device and automatically connects to it for configuration
   2. 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
      1. 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)
      2. 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)
3. PVR Application
   1. HAVA Platinum HD is compatible and can be used out of the box with Microsoft Media Center Edition (XP or Vista)
   2. Monsoon HAVA PC Client is provided for non-MCE configurations.
   3. Monsoon HAVA PC Client can be customized for OEM branding.
4. PC Client Requirements
   1. Desktop or laptop computer with minimum Intel Pentium 1.2 GHz or equivalent (1.5 GHz or higher recommended)
   2. Operating System: Windows XP (Home, Pro or MCE) SP2, or Windows Vista (all versions)
   3. System RAM: 512MB for WinXP, 1GB for Vista
   4. Disk space: 75 MB to install the HAVA software; at least 500 MB for time-shifting; 10 GB recommended for recording
   5. Available RJ-45 Ethernet port on PC
   6. Wired or wireless home router with available Ethernet port

Special Features

1. High quality full D1 MPEG-2 video for home viewing and simultaneous CIF MPEG-4 for remote viewing over the internet
2. Send your video content to multiple clients at once on the local network
   (number of simultaneous clients dependent on available local network bandwidth)
3. Dynamic video quality adjustment based on available network bandwidth
4. Internet browsing, e-mail, chat and access to other standard applications off the home network can be run simultaneously with video streaming from HAVA Platinum HD

At-home Requirements

1. DHCP-enabled router recommended
2. 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.
3. Broadband internet connectivity for remote viewing (recommended 300Kbps upstream)

	Slingbox AV	Slingbox Pro	HAVA Platinum HD
Standard DVR functions
Access to set-top box controls	Yes	Yes	Yes
Record TV programs on PC over local network	No	No	Yes
Windows Media Center Support
Work as a virtual tuner for live TV	No	No	Yes
Schedule recording with TV guide	No	No	Yes
Schedule TV series recordings	No	No	Yes
Pause and timeshift TV	No	No	Yes
Support for Windows XP Media Center Editon	No	No	Yes
Support for Windows Vista Media Center Editon	No	No	Yes
Video Quality
Local network streaming format	WM9	WM9	MPEG-2 (DVD Quality)
Streaming format over the Internet	WM9	WM9	MPEG-4
Compatible with HD TV	No	Yes	Yes
Additional adapter needed for HD TV	N/A	Yes	No. Saves $$$
Streaming and Multicasting
Streaming to multiple computers on a local network	No	No	Up to 5
Comparison as of June 2007

• 1 HAVA Platinum HD unit
• 1 Quick Start Guide
• 1 Software CD-ROM
• 1 Power Adapter
• 1 RJ-45 Ethernet Cable
• 1 IR Blaster 2-Prong Cable
• 2 RCA to Mini-Jack Audio/Video Cables (composite)
• 2 RCA to Mini-Jack (component cables)

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