TechniSat AirStar-HD5000-PCI
An ATSC 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 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; 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'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 HD-2000 and HD-3000), but ended going with 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 FlexCop PCI interface chipset. Its Frontend is comprised by a LG H061F NIM, which features the LG DT3303 demodulator.