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Hardware supported by the linuxtv.org DVB drivers
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  Generally, the DVB hardware manufacturers frequently change the
  frontends (i.e. tuner / demodulator units) used, usually without
  changing the product name, revision number or specs. Some cards
  are also available in versions with different frontends for
  DVB-S/DVB-C/DVB-T. Thus the frontend drivers are listed seperately.

  Note 1: There is no guarantee that every frontend driver works
  out-of-the box with every card, because of different wiring.

  Note 2: The demodulator chips can be used with a variety of
  tuner/PLL chips, and not all combinations are supported. Often
  the demodulator and tuner/PLL chip are inside a metal box for
  shielding, and the whole metal box has its own part number.


o Frontends drivers: 
  DVB-S:
   - alps_bsrv2		: Alps BSRV2 (ves1893 demodulator)
   - cx24110		: Conexant HM1221/HM1811 (cx24110 or cx24106 demod, cx24108 PLL)
   - grundig_29504-491	: Grundig 29504-491 (Philips TDA8083 demodulator), tsa5522 PLL
   - mt312		: Zarlink mt312 demodulator, sl1935 or tsa5059 PLL
   - stv0299		: Alps BSRU6 (tsa5059 PLL), LG TDQB-S00x (tsa5059 PLL),
   			  LG TDQF-S001F (sl1935 PLL), Philips SU1278 (tua6100 PLL), 
			  Philips SU1278SH (tsa5059 PLL)
  DVB-C:
   - ves1820		: various (ves1820 demodulator, sp5659c or spXXXX PLL)
  DVB-T:
   - alps_tdlb7		: Alps TDLB7 (sp8870 demodulator, sp5659 PLL)
   - alps_tdmb7		: Alps TDMB7 (cx22700 demodulator)
   - grundig_29504-401	: Grundig 29504-401 (LSI L64781 demodulator), tsa5060 PLL
   - tda1004x		: Philips tda10045h (td1344 or tdm1316l PLL)


o Cards based on the Phillips saa7146 multimedia PCI bridge chip:
  - TI AV7110 based cards (i.e. with hardware MPEG decoder):
    - Siemens/Technotrend/Hauppauge PCI DVB card revision 1.1, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1
      (aka Hauppauge Nexus)
  - "budget" cards (i.e. without hardware MPEG decoder):
    - Technotrend Budget / Hauppauge WinTV-Nova PCI Cards
    - SATELCO Multimedia PCI
    - KNC1 DVB-S

o Cards based on the B2C2 Inc. FlexCopII:
  - Technisat SkyStar2 PCI DVB


Unmaintained drivers
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o EM8300 based MPEG decoder cards (Hollywood Plus/DXR3)
o Margi/Billionton MPEG decoder PCMCIA card (DVD-to-go)


Hardware supported by the dvb-kernel CVS only
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o Frontends drivers:
   - dvb_dummy_fe: for testing...
  DVB-C:
   - at76c651: Atmel AT76c651(B) with DAT7021 PLL
  DVB-T:
   - nxt6000 : Alps TDME7 (MITEL SP5659 PLL), Alps TDED4 (TI ALP510 PLL),
               Comtech DVBT-6k07 (SP5730 PLL)
               (NxtWave Communications NXT6000 demodulator)


o Cards based on the Conexant Bt8xx PCI bridge:
  - Pinnacle PCTV Sat DVB
  - Nebula Electronics DigiTV

o Technotrend / Hauppauge DVB USB devices:
  - Nova USB
  - DEC 2000-T

o Preliminary support for the analog module of the Siemens DVB-C PCI card