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Posts: 415 | Thanked: 44 times | Joined on Apr 2007 @ Austin, Texas
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FYI, here is my report on my HAVA expereince, if you will:

After several 'misfires' in the installation process yesterday, I managed to get my Titanium unit working yesterday. The first problem I faced was a screen in the setup program that said 'HAVA Unit not found' and gave several possible explanations for this error message. Unable to figure it out, I called the support line and, to my surprise, got some help! Enough, in fact, to get it working, but only with some diligence.

Specifically, I had to 'reset' the HAVA device, not once but three times before it worked, seamlessly. This was what the support line fellow suggested, so you can save yourself a call

Then, at first anyway, the video on my PC was choppy and lagging, so I set the bitrate lower, to 8000. This worked. Perhaps I needn't have lowered it so much, but at least I know it works. If anyone knows what the optimum is, please post. In any case, I don't really want to watch TV on my PC, espcially since I have an HD TV right next to it

No, what I want is TV on my N810, so finally, I installed the latest-greatest .deb from HAVA on my N810 and voila! What I like best about this is the fact that it actually allows me to control my dvr, which means that I can make use of the device I already have, instead of buying yet another tuner/dvr.

Back when I was first contemplating getting an N800, I considered the Archos line because I wanted to get TV. Now, it appears, I have what I want. Thanks!