ATSC PCI cards
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).
| Vendor Model |
Frontend | Bridge Interface | 8VSB | QAM | NTSC | Other Features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATI HDTV Wonder |
TUV1236D * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * Nxt2004 demodulator (D) |
Conexant cx2388x | yes | no1 | yes | * dual RF inputs * S-Video and Composite |
| AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 7 |
Alps TDHU * ? tuner * Nxt2004 demodulator (D) |
Philips saa7135 | yes | yes | no | * S-Video and Composite |
| BBTI/TechniSat Air2PC-ATSC-PCI (1st rev) |
Broadcom bcm3510 | B2C2 FlexCop | yes | 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 | * 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 | * Hardware PID filtering 3 |
| DViCO FusionHDTV3 Gold |
Microtune/Temic MT4042 * Philips SA5523 & Philips TDA5737M tuner * Philips TDA9801T demodulator (A) LG DT3302 demodulator (D) |
Conexant cx2388x | yes | no2 | yes | * dual RF inputs * S-Video and Composite |
| DViCO FusionHDTV3 Gold-Q |
Microtune/Temic MT4042 * Philips SA5523 & Philips TDA5737M tuner * Philips TDA9801T demodulator (A) LG DT3302 demodulator (D) |
Conexant cx2388x | yes | yes | yes | * dual RF inputs * daughter board for LG DT3302 * S-Video and Composite |
| DViCO FusionHDTV3 Gold-T |
LG DT3302 | Conexant cx2388x | yes | yes | yes | * S-Video and Composite |
| DViCO FusionHDTV5 Lite |
LG Innotek TDVS-H064F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D) |
Conexant BT878 | yes | yes | yes | * S-Video and Composite6 * Analog CC |
| DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold |
LG Innotek TDVS-H062F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D) |
Conexant cx2388x | yes | yes | yes | * S-Video and Composite |
| KWorld ATSC 110 |
TUV1236D * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * Nxt2004 demodulator (D) |
Philips saa7135 | yes | yes | yes | * dual RF inputs * S-Video and Composite |
| pcHDTV HD-2000 |
Philips 1236D * ? tuner * ? demodulator (A) Oren or51211 demodulator (D) |
Conexant BT878A | yes | no 4 | yes | * dual RF inputs * NTSC mono only (?) |
| pcHDTV HD-3000 |
Thomson DTT 761x * TAU6030 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) Oren or51132 demodulator (D) |
Conexant cx23883 | yes | yes | yes | * S-Video and Composite * Analog CC2 |
| pcHDTV HD-5500 |
LG Innotek TDVS-H064F * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D) |
Conexant cx23883 | yes | yes | yes | * S-Video and Composite * Analog CC |
| Skydigital SKY-HDTV |
LG TDVS-H064P * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D) |
Conexant cx23881 | yes | yes | yes | * S-Video and Composite |
| SIGMACOM SIGMA HDTV5 X1 Star |
LG TDVS-H064P * TAU6034 tuner * TDA9887 demodulator (A) * LG DT3303 demodulator (D) |
Conexant cx23881 | yes | yes | yes | * S-Video and Composite |
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: QAM note. 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.
- Both the DViCO F5 Gold and Lite RT versions ?? .. have to check
Currently Unsupported ATSC PCI cards
- Software Decoding Cards
- VBox 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.
Currently Unsupported ATSC mini-PCI cards
- AOpen LR351 Hybrid ATSC/Analog TV Tuner
External Links
- http://ati.amd.com/products/multimedia.html ATI Technologies multimedia products website.
- 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.sigmacom.co.kr/eng/main SigmaCom company website, Sigma HDTV Cards.
- http://www.skydigital.co.kr/en/product.php?category=81 Skydigital company website, SKY products.