Highlights from "July 2007 Win a Free HAVA Drawing"

Our thanks to everyone who participated in the July 2007 Win a Free HAVA Drawing. All entries were interesting. They creatively described how you would use or have used HAVA TV placeshifters to improve your infotainment life in amazing places. Our congratulations to the lucky winner and appreciations to the efforts that went into all entries.

Here are some highlights of the entries:

• The Most Amazing Place to Use HAVA for an Avid Microsoft Xbox Gamer
• 50 Extreme Places to Use HAVA Placeshifter for TV Movie Fans
• HAVA Placeshifts Home TV to the Outdoors and Nature
• I am a Happy HAVAnaut!

The Most Amazing Place to Use HAVA for a Gamer

By Dale H., M from Maryland

The most Amazing place I would use my HAVA? Well that is pretty easy, in my living room.

Being a Avid xbox 360 gamer, I've been endlessly searching for the past year for a way to play my games in HD and record game play to my pc as well… In this search I would have to say I've easily spent 3 to 4 hundred dollars on TV tuners, game bridges, and USB devices, but the quality was always poor and in the end I was never able to play Madden or NCAA Football in true HD and get that signal to my pc to capture as well.

While searching on a few internet forums about the problem, someone made the suggestion of using a HAVA to "broadcast" the signal to my pc or using the HAVA's component pass through to accomplish my goals… I had never heard of a HAVA before and after a little research I was hooked.  I can say that reading the reviews that other gamers are giving the HAVA, have really made me look forward to getting this hardware in my hands and putting it through it's paces.

50 Extreme Places to Use HAVA for TV Movie Fans

By Catherine M. from New York

I decided to take a unique approach to this essay. I polled numerous family members & friends (on using HAVA to watch movies from home TV) and here are the top 50 movies & places we came up with:

 (1)    Watching “Air Force One” while traveling on Air Force One

(2)    Watching “Flatliners” from the city morgue pillar

(3)    Watching  “King Kong” on the top floor of the Empire State Building

(4)    Watching  “Star Wars” from the International Space Station

(5)    Watching  “JFK” at the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas

(6)    Watching “American Gigolo” from inside Richard Gere’s bedroom

(7)    Watching  “Titanic” on the QE2

(8)    Watching  “Ocean’s 12” from the casino floor of the Bellagio Hotel

(9)    Watching  “The Godfather” in Sicily

(10)  Watching  “Cleopatra” at the Great Pyramid

(11)  Watching  “The Queen” sitting on the throne at Buckingham Palace (& no, not that throne, the OTHER throne)

(12)  Watching  “Rocky” on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (After taking the designated run up the stairs)

(13)  Watching “Young Mr. Lincoln” at the Ford Theatre

(14)  Watching  “It’s a wonderful Life” at the North Pole

(15)  Watching “The 10 Commandments” in Egypt or in Jerusalem

(16)  Watching all of the Harry Potter films sitting on the family porch.

(17)  Watching “The Wizard of Oz” in Kansas (Wait cancel that, there’s nothing else to do in Kansas).

(18)  Watching  “Scooby Doo & the Loch Ness Monster” in Scotland

(19)  Watching  “Chinatown” in Chinatown

(20)  Watching  “Interview with a Vampire” in Transylvania’s Castle

(21)   Watching “Good Morning Vietnam” in Ho Chi Minh City

(22)   Watching  “Halloween” in Salem Massachusetts

(23)   Watching  “A League of their Own” on the pitchers mound of Yankee Stadium

(24)   Watching  “Tron”, well actually this geek wants to be Tron so ignore that one, put them down for watching  the "Search for Spock" in the captains chair on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise

(25)   Watching “Happy Feet” in an Alaskan Igloo

(26)   Watching “Spiderman” while laying on a web suspended between 2 skyscrapers

(27)   Watching “Shrek” in a swamp while eating rats on a stick.

(28)   Watching  “Fiddler on the Roof” (Really Loud) on the rooftop of NYC

(29)   Watching “The Rock” in a cell at Alcatraz

(30)   Watching “Schindler’s List” in Auschwitz

(31)   Watching “Gladiator” at the Roman Coliseum

(32)   Watching “Amish in the City” at the town square of Lancaster PA 

(33)   Watching “Rosemary’s Baby” at the Vatican

(34)   Watching “Jaws” on a Long Island Beach

(35)   Watching “One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in a padded room in Bellevue Hospital

(36)   Watching “20,000 leagues under the Sea” in a submarine

(37)   Watching “Cliffhanger” from the top of Mount Everest

(38)   Watching “The Day after Tomorrow” from anywhere in Louisiana

(39)   Watching “Dune” in the Sahara Desert

(40)   Watching “Transformers” from inside a Hummer

(41)   Watching “300” in Sparta

(42)   Watching “12 Angry Men” while in the Supreme Court

(43)   Watching “Dirty Dancing” in a log cabin in the Catskill Mountains 

(44)   Watching “The Ring” at the bottom of a well

(45)   Watching “Cocktail” while sitting on a beach in Jamaica getting plastered

(46)   Watching “The Amityville Horror” from “The Red Room” of 112 Ocean Avenue

(47)   Watching “Ice Age” while floating on a glacier

(48)   Watching “Alien” on the moon LV-426

(49)   Watching “Toy Story” at FAO Schwartz 

(50)   Watching “The Island of Dr. Moreau” on a Tahitian beach, sipping cocktails, talking about how deep in the toilet Marlon Brando’s career must be for him to agree to do this movie

Me,  Personally I would be happy if I could watch the CCTV footage of Princess Diana’s “accident” at the 13th pillar. Well I hope you enjoyed this list as much as I enjoyed writing it.  I look forward to trying your product. Good Luck to me!!!

HAVA Placeshifts Home TV to the Outdoors and Nature

By Gary B. from California

If I were to win a HAVA, the first place I'd use it would be on top of a local mountain called Iron Mountain. While I haven't been up there in a long time, the hike to the top is only three miles. Once you're at the top, you can clearly see all of San Diego County, from the mountains in the east to the ocean in the west. It is one of the greatest panoramas in the area, and few really know that it even exists.

One mountain over is Mount Woodson, which holds the area's local antennas. Because of this, you always get a strong cell phone signal. This would allow for mobile viewing of content through my cell phone with the HAVA, allowing me to enjoy both the pristine outdoors and keep up to date with the world at the same time.

I've always loved the outdoors, but I don't get out as much as I'd like to. I'm always stuck to the constraints of the information world, and the HAVA would allow me to free myself from these bonds. And, if fate would allow it, I'd use my HAVA connection in even more remote locations. I dream of climbing mountains the world over. Though I'm no match for Mount Everest, I'd love to hike the back country of the Sierra Nevadas. And even though I doubt I'd get a strong enough data signal for the connection to go through, it would be worth a shot nevertheless.

One of my recent great inspirations for loving the outdoors comes from the writings of Jack Kerouac. In his novel, "The Dharma Bums", his fictional self goes on an adventure climbing Matterhorn Peak in the Sierras. I would love to be able to connect to nature in such a way, yet still enjoy the pleasures of home.  

In relation to the outdoors, I could also see myself using a HAVA connection in the middle of a nearby state park, located in the deserts of east county San Diego. The Anza Borrego state park offers permit free back country overnight camping, essentially allowing one to park wherever he/she wants and set up camp. While I've only done this once with a group of people, I would love to be able to go out by myself and just spend some alone time. I'm always bogged down and stuck at home, however, so I never get the chance to really go out there and do anything. Having a HAVA would also allow me to take my television with me, and let me experience the outdoors and nature the way I really want to. A cell signal out there isn't as hard as it sounds, since the terrain is essentially flat. Thus, a data stream on my mobile, or my PDA, is entirely possible. While both my ideas of where to use a HAVA if I had one seem fairly minuscule and silly, they are still nevertheless important to me.

I am a Happy HAVAnaut!

By A. P., Happy HAVAnaunt

I bought the HAVA Ser. Number 00319 last year. After many software upgrades, the HAVA is one of the best in the market. I can watch my TV any way. I watch my TV in my house, garden, restroom, and bedroom. I watch my TV in shopping mail while waiting my wife doing shopping. I watch my TV even in the car when my son driving. I watch TV in the park when I bring my grandchildren play, every way, any time and easy to log on. The drop rate is very low with my 3G phone.

My receiver is Cingular 8525, 3G Phone, it is much better than Wi-Fi, easy to connect, and drop rate is very low. I am very satisfied that the HAVA works with my cell phone/PDA.

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