ATSC PCI cards

On this page you will find information regarding ATSC PCI cards.

Supported ATSC PCI Cards

The following table lists the confirmed working ATSC PCI cards and provides a brief summary of their features and components.

In addition to this list,

• there are several cards that may actually work with existing drivers, but no reports have yet been provided. If you have such a non-listed but working device please do report your success (either here and/or on the dvb-mailing list). Your contribution would be greatly appreciated, and would allow for developers to add your device's definitions to the current drivers, so that it may be properly listed/named when detected.
• if you do not see your card on the list, there may already be experimental support available. Currently, the best source for information on devices with experimental support is found by searching the dvb mailing list achieves (Google works well) or by posting a question about the device directly to the list (but please conduct a search first, as it may already have been discussed).

Vendor Model	Added to Kernel	Frontend	Bridge Interface	8VSB	QAM	NTSC	Other Features
ATI HDTV Wonder	2.6.15	TUV1236D * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * Nxt2004 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx2388x	yes	no1	yes	* dual RF inputs * S-Video & Composite inputs (purple breakout dongle) * indoor antenna
AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 7	2.6.15	Alps TDHU * ? tuner * Nxt2004 demodulator (D)	Philips saa7135	yes	yes	no	* S-Video & Composite inputs
BBTI/TechniSat Air2PC-ATSC-PCI (1st rev)	2.6.11	? NIM * ? tuner Broadcom BCM3510 demodulator (D)	B2C2 FlexCop	yes	no 8	no	* Hardware PID filtering 3
BBTI/TechniSat Air2PC-ATSC-PCI (2nd rev)	?	Samsung TBMV30111IN * TAU6034T tuner * Nxt2002 demodulator (D)	B2C2 FlexCop	yes	no5	no	* Hardware PID filtering 3
BBTI/TechniSat AirStar-HD5000-PCI	2.6.15	LG Innotek TDVS-H061F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	B2C2 FlexCop	yes	yes	no	* Hardware PID filtering 3
DViCO FusionHDTV3 Gold	2.6.18	Microtune/Temic MT4042 * Philips SA5523 & Philips TDA5737M tuner * Philips TDA9801T demodulator (A) LG DT3302A demodulator (D)	Conexant cx2388x	yes	no2	yes	* dual RF inputs * S-Video & Composite inputs
DViCO FusionHDTV3 Gold-Q	2.6.13	Microtune/Temic MT4042 * Philips SA5523 & Philips TDA5737M tuner * Philips TDA9801T demodulator (A) LG DT3302A demodulator (D)	Conexant cx2388x	yes	yes	yes	* dual RF inputs * daughter board for LG DT3302A * S-Video & Composite inputs
DViCO FusionHDTV3 Gold-T	2.6.13	Thomson DTT 7611 * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) LG DT3302A	Conexant cx2388x	yes	yes	yes	* S-Video & Composite inputs
DViCO FusionHDTV5 Lite	2.6.15	LG Innotek TDVS-H064F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant BT878	yes	yes	yes	* S-Video & Composite inputs6 * Analog CC
DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold	2.6.14	LG Innotek TDVS-H062F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx2388x	yes	yes	yes	* S-Video & Composite inputs
KWorld ATSC 110	2.6.17	TUV1236D * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * Nxt2004 demodulator (D)	Philips saa7135	yes	yes	yes	* dual RF inputs * S-Video & Composite inputs
pcHDTV HD-2000	2.6.13	Philips 1236D * ? tuner * ? demodulator (A) Oren or51211 demodulator (D)	Conexant BT878A	yes	no 4	yes	* dual RF inputs * NTSC mono only (?)
pcHDTV HD-3000	2.6.13	Thomson DTT 7612 * TAU6030 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) Oren or51132 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx23883	yes	yes	yes	* S-Video & Composite inputs * Analog CC ?
pcHDTV HD-5500	2.6.18	LG Innotek TDVS-H064F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx23883	yes	yes	yes	* S-Video & Composite inputs * Analog CC
Skydigital SKY-HDTV	n.a.	LG TDVS-H064P * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx23881	yes	yes	yes	* S-Video & Composite inputs
SIGMACOM SIGMA HDTV5 X1 Star	n.a.	LG TDVS-H064P * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx23881	yes	yes	yes	* S-Video & Composite inputs

• Note 1: The demodulator supports 64/256-QAM, and it is rumoured that some may have had sucess -- However -- no proof positive examples have materialized. Thus, in the current state of support, it would be prudent to assume that it will not work. Hopefully this can be rectified, as the same frontend works fine in other cases (eg. KWorld 110).
  
• Note 2: The demodulator supports 64/256-QAM, but there apparently was a board level hardware problem that prevented its reception. For more details, see the FusionHDTV3 Gold article.
  
• Note 3: The Flexcop IC's hardware PID filtering capability allows the card to discard unwanted packets from the Transport Stream payload. This typically amounts to saving <10% off the bitrate of a 8-VSB (~19.4 Mbps) or 64-QAM (~27 Mbps) Transport Stream, and >55% of the bitrate of a 256-QAM (~38.8 Mbps) Transport Stream. In other words, the AirStar/Air2PC cards usually consume less PCI and memory bandwidth than the other cards because they have a hardware PID filter. For more details, see the FlexCop article.
  
• Note 4: Although the demodulator supports 64/256-QAM, no Firmware currently exists for such support, as pcHDTV was apparently unable to obtain such licensing from Oren. For more details, see this and this.
  
• Note 5: The demodulator supports 64/256-QAM, but most people report unusually high error rates and are unable to achieve reception. As a result, it is widely circulated that the card will not support QAM, however some users have been successful (for example, see this post). Nonetheless, they are most certainly the exception to the usual case.
  
• Note 6: Has a working comp/s-video port hidden behind the card-plate.
  
• Note 7: An AVerMedia press release (Jan 8 2007, CES) mentions them demonstrating an "updated AVerTVHD MCE A180". It does not indicate what updates have been made to the card.
• Note 8: Although the demodulator supports 64/256-QAM, no Firmware currently exists for such support.

• Both the DViCO F5 Gold and Lite RT versions ?? .. have to check
• Twinhan/Fujiplus (support in 2.6.18) ... and derivatives (Jetway, MSI, Norwood,..)
• ADS Tech ??

Currently Unsupported ATSC PCI cards

• Software Decoding Cards
  • ATI TV Wonder 650
  • DViCO FusionHDTV
  • DViCO FusionHDTV II

• • VBox cards

• Hardware Decoding Cards... see the MyHD Linux Driver project for development status
  • MIT MyHD cards ... MDP-100, MDP-120, MDP-130
  • iTech AccessDTV
  • Telemanm's Hipix DTV-200
  • Digital Stream's HiDTV PRo 2
  • Hauppauge WinTV HD

Supported ATSC mini-PCI cards

Currently, there are no ATSC mini-PCI cards supported.

Currently Unsupported ATSC mini-PCI cards

• AOpen LR351 Hybrid ATSC/Analog TV Tuner

External Links

• http://ati.amd.com/products/multimedia.html ATI Technologies multimedia products website.
• http://www.aver.com/multimedia.html AVerMedia North America products website.
• http://www.bbti.us/products_air2pc_atsc_pci.htm Broadband Technologies company website, Air2PC cards.
• http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/Products/ DViCO company website, FusionHDTV products.
• http://www.kworldcomputer.com/product/digital/001/atsc_110.htm KWorld company website, KWorld ATSC 110 card.
• http://www.pchdtv.com pcHDTV company website, pcHDTV HD-5500 card.
• http://www.sigmacom.co.kr/eng/main SigmaCom company website, Sigma HDTV Cards.
• http://www.skydigital.co.kr/en/product.php?category=81 Skydigital company website, SKY products.