ATSC PCI cards

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As of right now there are 14 confirmed working devices. (There are also a few DVB cards requiring definition that have not been confirmed to work).

  • The pcHDTV HD-3000 card
  • The pcHDTV HD-5500 card
  • The air2pc (1st gen)
  • The air2pc (2nd gen)
  • The air2pc hd5000 (3rd gen)
  • The DViCO FusionHDTV 3 GOLD-Q
  • The DViCO FusionHDTV 3 GOLD-T
  • The DViCO FusionHDTV 5 GOLD
  • The DViCO FusionHDTV 5 LITE
  • The DViCO FusionHDTV 5 USB GOLD
  • The ATi HDTV Wonder
  • The AVerMedia AVerTVHD A180
  • The Kworld ATSC110
  • SKY Digital HDTV

Here is a feature matrix to help keep track of what card does what:

Manufacturer Model Frontend Bridge Interface 8VSB QAM NTSC Comp/S-video Analog CC PID filtering3 List Price7
ATI HDTV Wonder nxt2004 cx23882 yes no6 yes yes no2 sw $119
AverMedia AVerTV HD A180 nxt2004 saa7135 yes yes no yes ? sw $1099
BBTI/Technisat Air2PC (1st) bcm3510 flexcop yes no no no no hw $408
Air2PC (2nd) nxt2002 flexcop yes no5 no no no hw N/A
AirStar HD5000 lgdt3303 flexcop yes yes no no no hw $99
Dvico FusionHDTV3 Gold-Q lgdt3302 cx23882 yes yes yes yes no2 sw N/A
FusionHDTV3 Gold-T lgdt3302 cx23882 yes yes yes yes no2 sw N/A
FusionHDTV5 Lite lgdt3303 bt878 yes yes yes yes1 yes sw $89
FusionHDTV5 Gold lgdt3303 cx23882 yes yes yes yes no2 sw $149
FusionHDTV5 USB Gold lgdt3303 Cypress FX2LP yes yes no4 no4 ? sw $149
Kworld ATSC 110 nxt2004 saa7135 yes yes yes yes ? sw ~$70
pcHDTV HD-2000 or511xx bt878? yes ? ? ? ? sw N/A
HD-3000 or51132 cx23882 yes yes yes yes yes2 sw N/A
HD-5500 lgdt3303 cx23883 yes yes yes yes yes sw $129
SKY Digital SKY-HDTV lgdt3303 cx23881 yes yes yes yes ? sw ~$80

Note 1: Has a working comp/s-video port hidden behind the card-plate.
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: 'hw' = hardware, 'sw' = software. Hardware PID filtering allows the card to discard unwanted packets. This typically amounts to saving <10% of the bitrate of a 8-VSB or QAM-64 broadcast, and >55% of the bitrate of a QAM-256 broadcast.
Note 4: Hardware should allow it, but the driver has no support yet.
Note 5: The demodulator supports QAM-64/256, but the tuner can't handle cable frequencies.
Note 6: Some may have had sucess. Recent attempts using currently shipping boards have failed
Note 7: Prices shown in $US, rounded to the nearest $1, as found on the web on 2006-07-17. I didn't bother with the discontinued ones (shown "N/A"), as prices will vary on eBay.
Note 8: eBay price as of 2006-08-24.
Note 9: Model shown on web site "MTVHDA180" is the "AVerMedia AVerTVHD™ MCE A180 (white box)"; Price includes typical shipping.

Air2PC

The Air2PC cards usually consume less PCI and memory bandwidth than the other cards because they have a hardware PID filter. The hardware only handles a few streams, which may be limiting if collecting EIT data. The PID filtering is most useful when recording one program in a QAM-256 stream, or when recording low resolution streams. It doesn't save much bandwidth when recording an HDTV stream encoded with 8-VSB, since that set of streams consumes most of the bandwidth anyway.

DViCO

See DVICO.

Sky Digital

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