As the value priced member of the HAVA family, the HAVA Gold is the perfect TV place- shifting device for the person on the go. HAVA Gold provides users with outstanding remote viewing of your live TV programming on an internet connected PC or mobile phone from wherever your travels take you. Meanwhile back at home, family members can also watch TV on other home network connected PCs in multiple rooms at the same time. HAVA streams MPEG-2 (DVD quality) video throughout the house or MPEG4 video over the internet.
Home Viewing Over The Home Network
- Watch your television programming in DVD quality anywhere in your home
- Supports multiple users who can each watch simultaneously over the home network through Monsoon's 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 or a mobile data 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.
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 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, or a mobile data connection by a single client. Watch your television programming in DVD quality in any room with a PC.
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 (“multicasting")
- 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
- Built-in hardware MPEG encoder
- Simultaneously encode MPEG-2 and MPEG-4advanced simple profile
- Dynamic bit rate and frame rate adjustment
- Supports streaming from 128Kbps to 15Mbit
- Base-band Audio/Video Inputs
- Component Y-Pb-Pr mini-phone jack
- A/V output mini-phone jack - Composite and Left/Right Audio
- S-Video
- Auxiliary audio min-phone jack
- Pass-through Outputs. Pass-through A/V outputs for ease of connection to a TV or other video equipment:
- Component Y-Pb-Pr mini-phone jack
- A/V output mini-phone jack - Composite and Left/Right Audio
- S-Video
- IR Blaster output
- Power — 9V DC 1 Amp
- RJ-45 Ethernet 10/100 connector for Wired or Wireless Router
PC Client
- Driver on the PC represents the HAVA device as "Virtual" WDM TV Tuner
device, fully compatible with Windows Media Center
- Setup configures HAVA over the Ethernet
- PVR Application
- HAVA is compatible and can be used with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
Edition or any other MCE compatible PVR application
- 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
- 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)
| Key Features |
HAVA Gold |
Slingbox AV |
Sony LocationFree |
| Maximum Video Resolution |
Full D1 Resolution |
VGA Computer Screen (640x480) |
VGA Computer Screen (640x480) |
| Maximum Speed |
8 Mbps |
5 Mbps |
3 Mbps |
| Video Format |
MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 |
WM9 |
H.264 Baseline |
| Local and Remote Reviewing |
Enjoy Both Simultaneously |
One or the other |
One or the other |

- 1 HAVA GOLD 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)
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