ATSC PCI cards

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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 A180
7
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


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