ATSC PCI cards

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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 dual RF inputs
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)
* LG DT3303 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 ? dual RF inputs
pcHDTV
HD-2000		 Philips 1236D
* ? tuner
* ? demodulator (A)
* Oren or51132 demodulator (D)		 Conexant BT878A yes no 4 yes ? ? dual RF inputs
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, as the same frontend works fine in other cases (eg. KWorld 110).
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. For more details, see the FlexCop article.
Note 4: Although the demodulator supports 64/256-QAM, no Firmware currently exists for such support, as pcHDTV was apparently unable to obtain such licensing from Oren. For more details, see this and this.
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 (for example, see this post). 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

  • 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


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