ATSC PCI cards
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:
| Vendor / Model | Frontend | Bridge Interface | 8VSB | QAM | NTSC | Comp/S-video | Analog CC | PID filtering3 |
| ATI HDTV Wonder | nxt2004 | cx23882 | yes | no1 | yes | yes | no2 | sw |
| AverMedia AVerTV HD A180 | nxt2004 | saa7135 | yes | yes | no | yes | ? | sw |
| BBTI/Technisat Air2PC (1st) | bcm3510 | flexcop | yes | no | no | no | no | hw |
| Air2PC (2nd) | nxt2002 | flexcop | yes | no5 | no | no | no | hw |
| AirStar HD5000 | lgdt3303 | flexcop | yes | yes | no | no | no | hw |
| Dvico FusionHDTV3 Gold-Q | lgdt3302 | cx23882 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no2 | sw |
| FusionHDTV3 Gold-T | lgdt3302 | cx23882 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no2 | sw |
| FusionHDTV5 Lite | lgdt3303 | bt878 | yes | yes | yes | yes6 | yes | sw |
| FusionHDTV5 Gold | lgdt3303 | cx23882 | yes | yes | yes | yes | no2 | sw |
| FusionHDTV5 USB Gold | lgdt3303 | Cypress FX2LP | yes | yes | no4 | no4 | ? | sw |
| Kworld ATSC 110 | nxt2004 | saa7135 | yes | yes | yes | yes | ? | sw |
| pcHDTV HD-2000 | or511xx | bt878? | yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | sw |
| HD-3000 | or51132 | cx23882 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes2 | sw |
| HD-5500 | lgdt3303 | cx23883 | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | sw |
| SKY Digital SKY-HDTV | lgdt3303 | cx23881 | yes | yes | yes | yes | ? | sw |
Note 1: Some may have had sucess. Recent attempts using currently shipping boards have failed
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: Has a working comp/s-video port hidden behind the card-plate.
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
External Links
- http://www.bbti.us/products_air2pc_atsc_pci.htm Broadband Technologies Company site, Air2PC cards.
- http://www.pchdtv.com pcHDTV Company Site, pcHDTV HD-5500 card.
- http://www.ati.com/products/hdtvwonder/index.html ATI Technology Company site, ATI HDTV Wonder card.
- http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/Products/ DViCO Company site, Fusion HDTV products.
- http://www.aver.com/2005home/wheretobuy/estore/estore_bestseller.shtml AVer TV Company site, AVerTV HD A180 card.
- http://www.kworldcomputer.com/product/digital/001/atsc_110.htm KWorld Company site, KWorld ATSC 110 card.