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).
• There are also a few DVB cards requiring definition that have not been confirmed to work

Vendor Model	Frontend	Bridge Interface	8VSB	QAM	NTSC	Comp/S-video	Analog CC	Other Features
ATI HDTV Wonder	TUV1236D * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * Nxt2004 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx2388x	yes	no1	yes	yes	no2
AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 7	Alps TDHU * ? tuner * Nxt2004 demodulator (D)	Philips saa7135	yes	yes	no	yes	no
BBTI/TechniSat Air2PC-ATSC-PCI (1st rev)	Broadcom bcm3510	B2C2 FlexCop	yes	no	no	no	no	Hardware PID filtering 3
BBTI/TechniSat Air2PC-ATSC-PCI (2nd rev)	Samsung TBMV30111IN * TAU6034T tuner * Nxt2002 demodulator (D)	B2C2 FlexCop	yes	no5	no	no	no	Hardware PID filtering 3
BBTI/TechniSat AirStar-HD5000-PCI	LG Innotek TDVS-H061F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * lgdt3303 demodulator (D)	B2C2 FlexCop	yes	yes	no	no	no	Hardware PID filtering 3
DVICO FusionHDTV3 Gold-Q	LG DT3302	Conexant cx2388x	yes	yes	yes	yes	no2
DVICO FusionHDTV3 Gold-T	LG DT3302	Conexant cx2388x	yes	yes	yes	yes	no2
DVICO FusionHDTV5 Lite	LG Innotek TDVS-H064F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant BT878	yes	yes	yes	yes6	yes
DVICO FusionHDTV5 Gold	LG Innotek TDVS-H062F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx2388x	yes	yes	yes	yes	no2
KWorld ATSC 110	TUV1236D * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * Nxt2004 demodulator (D)	Philips saa7135	yes	yes	yes	yes	?
pcHDTV HD-2000	Philips 1236D * ? tuner * ? demodulator (A) * Oren or51132 demodulator (D)	Conexant BT878A	yes	?	?	?	?
pcHDTV HD-3000	Thomson DTT 761x * TAU6030 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * Oren or51132 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx23883	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes2
pcHDTV HD-5500	LG Innotek TDVS-H064F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx23883	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
Skydigital SKY-HDTV	LG TDVS-H064P * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx23881	yes	yes	yes	yes	?
SIGMACOM SIGMA HDTV5 X1 Star	LG TDVS-H064P * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D)	Conexant cx23881	yes	yes	yes	yes	?

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
Note 2: The 5500 analog CC works, so the 3000 should too, but I haven't verified the 3000 personally. If you have, please remove this note.
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.[1]
Note 4:
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 example. 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.

Unsupported ATSC PCI cards

• Software Decoding Cards
  • ATI TV Wonder 650
  • 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.

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.