itT was lucky enough to be among the first ones to try out the new HAVA Player for the Nokia Internet Tablet from Monsoon Multimedia, Inc. Basically, the HAVA Player lets you take your TV anywhere and access your DVR, Cable, or Satellite boxes (standard and HD channels) connected to a HAVA appliance at home, via the Nokia Internet Tablet, as long as it is connected via WiFi or by any other high-speed connection. From our initial tests, the Internet Tablet version of the HAVA Player even outperformed the PC version, with regards to video and sound quality. There were some minor sync problems that happen occasionally, especially when you keep switching from fullscreen to the remote control screen, but I never encountered the slow down nor the sound tone change that happens on the PC HAVA Player. The app is still on beta and should be released sometime the third quarter of this year. We have been playing with the beta version for a week now but we weren't allowed to disclose anything about it since we were under NDA until CTIA (a press release is coming out from Monsoon in a while). We are releasing an 11 minute first look video that I took this weekend. I hope you all enjoy it! As always, feel free to comment and suggest features. The Monsoon folks will surely be monitoring this thread.

Originally Posted by RogerS

Looks like a really clever use for an Internet Tablet.

One question: You mention cable, but we dropped Comcast and got Verizon FIOS.

Will the HAVA Player work with FIOS too?

Thx

Roger