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
Note: The table currently also contains a USB device. It will be removed and placed in the appropriate section shortly.
| 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) |
cx23882 | yes | no1 | yes | yes | no2 | |
| AVerMedia AVerTVHD A1807 |
Alps TDHU * ? tuner * nxt2004 demodulator (D) |
saa7135 | yes | yes | no | yes | no | |
| BBTI/Technisat Air2PC (1st) |
bcm3510 | flexcop | yes | no | no | no | no | Hardware PID filtering 3 |
| BBTI/Technisat Air2PC (2nd) |
Samsung nxt2002 |
flexcop | yes | no5 | no | no | no | Hardware PID filtering 3 |
| BBTI/Technisat AirStar HD5000 |
LG Innotek TDVS-H061F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * lgdt3303 demodulator (D) |
flexcop | yes | yes | no | no | no | Hardware PID filtering 3 |
| DVICO FusionHDTV3 Gold-Q |
lgdt3302 | cx23882 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no2 | |
| DVICO FusionHDTV3 Gold-T |
lgdt3302 | cx23882 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no2 | |
| DVICO FusionHDTV5 Lite |
LG Innotek TDVS-H064F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * lgdt3303 demodulator (D) |
bt878 | yes | yes | yes | yes6 | yes | |
| DVICO FusionHDTV5 Gold |
LG Innotek TDVS-H062F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * lgdt3303 demodulator (D) |
cx23882 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no2 | |
| DVICO FusionHDTV5 USB Gold |
LG Innotek TDVS-H064F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * lgdt3303 demodulator (D) |
Cypress FX2LP | yes | yes | no4 | no4 | ? | |
| KWorld ATSC 110 |
TUV1236D * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * nxt2004 demodulator (D) |
saa7135 | yes | yes | yes | yes | ? | |
| pcHDTV HD-2000 |
Philips 1236D * ? tuner * ? demodulator (A) * or51132 demodulator (D) |
bt878A | yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | |
| pcHDTV HD-3000 |
Thomson DTT 761x * TAU6030 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * or51132 demodulator (D) |
cx23883 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes2 | |
| pcHDTV HD-5500 |
LG Innotek TDVS-H064F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * lgdt3303 demodulator (D) |
cx23883 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Skydigital SKY-HDTV |
LG TDVS-H064P * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * lgdt3303 demodulator (D) |
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
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: 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.
BBTI/Technisat Air2PC Cards
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
- Mandrake JoayoNET wiki article (in Korean) that outlines the setup of the SKY-HDTV card, and also includes some other useful information.
Unsupported ATSC PCI cards
- start inserting cards here
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://www.ati.com/products/hdtvwonder/index.html ATI Technology company website, ATI HDTV Wonder card.
- 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.skydigital.co.kr/en/product.php?category=81 Skydigital company website, SKY products.