Place shifting - the practice of taking your TV signal from home and using a device to watch it elsewhere in the world - has until recently been a toy for laptop users.
Monsoon Multimedia are trying to change that with their new service which uses Hava place shifting set-top boxes to stream your telly to a mobile device.
At the moment, the service only supports the Nokia 810 internet tablet, but by the end of April there should be software available for Windows Mobile devices, with full Symbian support to follow later in the year.
The basic Hava set-top box can connect to up to three video sources at home - e.g. Cable TV, DVD Player and TV Tuner - and stream their input over the internet. More expensive models add HD input support (it has to downsample the video to standard resolution to stream it first, though) and local WiFi access to cut down on the number of trailing cables.
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