ABOUT HAVI

HAVi is an abbreviation for Home Audio/Video Interoperability. It is a project that was started by eight promoter companies—Grundig, Hitachi, Panasonic, Philips, Sharp, Sony, Thomson, and Toshiba. Eighteen other participant companies have joined—Digital Harmony Technologies, Loewe Kenwood, LG Electronics, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Samsung Electronics, Sanyo, Seiko, Epson, Sun Microsystems, Tao Group, QNX Software Systems, Vivid Logic, 3A International, Infineon Technologies AG, Teralogic, Wind River Systems, and Yaskawa Information Systems. HAVi adopted the IEEE 1394 bus standard as the underlying network technology for the HAVi protocols as well as for the transport of the real-time A/V streams.

The HAVi architecture specifies ...

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