Mini review: Hava Titanium HD

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eflyguy

Discussion Starter · Nov 23, 2009

(should I post this somewhere else?)

Just registered and posted on Hava forums, figured it may be of use to someone here as we're into media streaming.

My experience with the Hava Titanium HD:
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Not impressed

Stopped using Sling when they started charging for a mobile viewer that I had been using gratis for some time.

Picked up Hava Titanium HD a little while back, based on claims of free mobile viewer, and having HD support. Just finally got around to installing it yesterday morning. I removed it yesterday afternoon.

First, no Mac support. A thorough search seems to indicate there's a player coming, but no official comment from Hava that I can find. There goes 50% of its usefulness..

Second, installer trashed my system. After install, reboot, loading animation that used to take 5 seconds now just sits there for about a minute, then the machine freezes. Had to remove 2nd hard drive to even get the system to boot, even in Safe Mode. Specs: Windows Vista 64, Intel i7 965 (3.0GHz) w/12GB RAM, Intel X25 SSD HD, plus two 1TB storage drives.

Had to install it on on old XP system to configure it. Ran that, player is slow to respond, remote will not allow access to all features even though I selected the correct make an model of device. As an example, the "DVR" button on my remote, which accesses the recorded programming, is "ghosted" in the virtual remote. So I can't access my recordings thru Hava, which was the second reason I bought it. There goes another 25% of its usefulness..

Tried to download a player for my Blackberry. Oops. My bad. Not supported.
There goes the remaining 25% of its usefulness..

After going thru that pain, went back to watch regular TV, and found my HD quality is AWFUL! Going direct from Satellite DVR (1080i) to my 65" Mitsubishi Diamond, picture is sharp and clear. Simply dropping the Hava inline, my picture looks terrible. Colors washed out, and the image is "soft". Have to say, I somewhat expected this when I saw the quality of the cables provided for hooking up the component connections.

Could not live with that image quality. Pulled the device, back in the box - not thar there was any use for it any more in any case.

Looks like it will be off to craigslist..
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zhevra

· #2 · Nov 23, 2009

There is a review tab between Gallery and Blogs, But they don't have every product listed in there... So IDK

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DuckieHo

· #3 · Nov 23, 2009

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Originally Posted by eflyguy

After going thru that pain, went back to watch regular TV, and found my HD quality is AWFUL! Going direct from Satellite DVR (1080i) to my 65" Mitsubishi Diamond, picture is sharp and clear. Simply dropping the Hava inline, my picture looks terrible. Colors washed out, and the image is "soft". Have to say, I somewhat expected this when I saw the quality of the cables provided for hooking up the component connections.

Could not live with that image quality. Pulled the device, back in the box - not thar there was any use for it any more in any case.

Are you sure that the Hava is actually outputting HD? What's the connection from the STB to this box?

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eflyguy

Discussion Starter · #4 · Nov 23, 2009

Component on both sides of the box, compared to direct component. The TV detects 1080i with the unit in place, and the resolution is not impacted significantly, just the color quality and sharpness. I have the full size HD test patterns for calibration on my DVR thanks Dish broadcasting it periodically (I use it reset my picture scaling, fine tune convergence, etc.)

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