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A Comcast TV channel displayed by the Hava PC-
Player
Installation and setting up the box is
child‘s play; just connect the cables and
make sure that an Internet connection is
available in the local network. The inside
of the box consists of a ViXS Xcode 2105
Chip that with its help and variable bit
rate and frame rate matching, you can
achieve optimal streaming results.
But what is most critical for picture
quality is the upload speed. While many
companies offer a mere 400 kb/s, Jim
explains to us that for him it has to be a
minimum of 1 Mb/s.
In that way you can achieve a transmission
quality so good that the user
sitting in front of a PC or laptop forgets
that he‘s not watching TV from an
antenna, not via satellite, not via cable,
but instead via the Internet.
Depending on his customer‘s requirements,
Jim offers connection speeds of
up to 10 Mb/s; his experience however
suggests that 2.5 Mb/s is the ideal compromise.
These high upload speeds for
several hundred customers are made
between his data center and the Internet.
For our tests Jim set up a 2.5 Mb/s
upload speed in his data center while
we installed the PC player on out test
PC. This is the software needed at the
receiving end so that the stream can be
received from the HD Box on any MS
Windows PC.
The hardware requirements for this
software are not all that large: a minimum
1.2 GHz Intel Pentium processor as
well as 512 MB of memory for Windows
XP or 1 GB for Windows Vista are needed.
In addition, Windows MCE (Media Center
Edition) is also supported. Together with
the Windows Media Center it is possible
to use this to receive the stream.
Once the software has been installed,
a new tuner appears in the Windows
Media Center that allows you to directly
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Recorded content can be burned to a DVD
access it through this program. Setting
up the connection through the PC Player
is handled very quickly and mostly for
one simple reason: unlike other streaming
solutions, the end user just needs to
know the name and password of the box
to be used. The end user doesn‘t have to
worry about any of the technical parameters
such as IP address, ports or set-
operated via Hava‘s own central server.
This means that when the box with
the name XYZ is turned on, it creates a
connection with the Hava server which
then assigns an IP address (xxx.xxx.
xxx.xxx) to the XYZ box at which point
the box is ready to be used. The end
user simply needs to enter the name of
the box in the PC player software. The
software then acquires the IP address
from the Hava server and sets up a
direct connection.
Thanks to this ingenious idea of using
their own server for every Hava box
around the world, setting up a connection
is easy and can be accomplished in
just a few seconds even for beginners.
Shortly after entering all the necessary
data and then pressing the „Connect“
button, we were watching Australian TV
in our test center. Despite the fact that
the incoming content was in SD quality,
we were quite surprised with the transmission
quality of the Hava box.
We quickly connected our test PC with
our 50-inch plasma TV in our test center
and discovered that even with this larger
screen the picture quality was still very
good. Now we could understand why
Jim mentioned to us early on that he
has numerous customers that use large
projectors to display programming on a