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An [[ATSC]] [[ATSC PCI Cards|PCI card]] by [[TechniSat]].

The AirStar-HD5000 card is well supported under Linux (added to kernel 2.6.15), and is the current ATSC PCI card offering from [[TechniSat]], superseding their older [[TechniSat Air2PC-ATSC-PCI|Air2PC]] models.  

[[TechniSat]] never listed this device on their own website's product pages.  Rather, one finds information about these [[ATSC]] devices strictly on the [[BBTI]] website (TechniSat's source for North American sales and distribution). 

Previous ATSC products manufactured by TechniSat but marketed by [[BBTI]] retained the naming scheme given to them by their original reference device designer, [[B2C2 Inc|B2C2]]; as opposed to being marketed by way of TechinSat's "''*Stars''" product lineup nomenclature.  With the HD5000 products, [[BBTI]] has evidently now adopted the TechniSat convention into part of the device names.  However, why they elected to actually use "HD5000" within the product name is a minor curiosity. In doing so, BBTI/TechniSat was likely, in part, trying to capitalize on the prevalent marketing hype for the "LG 5th Gen" demodulator.  Nonetheless, the nomenclature choice is quite similar to competitor [[pcHDTV|pcHDTV's]] conventions. Indeed, it is quite possible that [[pcHDTV]] would have liked to have used "HD-5000" as a successor to their earlier product offerings (the [[pcHDTV HD-2000|HD-2000]] and [[pcHDTV HD-3000|HD-3000]]), but ended going with [[pcHDTV HD-5500|HD-5500]] due to the fact that BBTI/TechniSat had already released a card to market bearing, in part, a "HD5000" moniker.  

==Features==
Like many other [[TechniSat]] devices, the card features a [[B2C2]] [[B2C2 FlexCop|FlexCop]] [[PCI interface chipset]].  Its [[Frontend]] is comprised by a LG H061F NIM, which features the LG DT3303 demodulator. 


== External Links ==
* [http://www.bbti.us/products_airstar_hd5000_pci.htm BBTI product page]
* [http://www.technisat.com/ Technisat International]
* [http://www.b2c2.com/ B2C2 Inc.]