HAVA just launched a mobile player for iPhone, putting it further into competition with rival service Slingbox.
They call it place-shifting, but lingo aside it allows you to control your live home TV from broadband Internet or computer or mobile phone — and watch it in another room, across town or while stuck in an airport abroad.
HAVA also has DVR capability to allow users to start a recording to their PC or attached storage, pause, rewind or fast forward live TV.
The Hava iPhone app costs $9.99 and you’ll need one of their devices, which start at $149.00 for the platinum HD model, plus broadband connections on both ends and a WIFI connection for your iPhone. (The Slingbox Solo starts at $179 and its companion iPhone app costs $29.99)
Ever since the two companies launched within a year of each other about five years ago, debate has sprung up — in both the Hava community and the Slingbox camp — about which one is better.
Let us know which one you’re using and whether you’d recommend it.
Nicole Martinelli is a San Francisco freelance writer who heads up Cult of Mac Magazine, our weekly publication available on iTunes. You can find her on Twitter and Google+. If you’re doing something new, cool and Apple-related, email her.
