Sabrent TV-USBHD

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A hybrid ATSC USB 2.0 device offered by Sabrent.

Currently not supported, althought the digital can be made to work; see http://marc.info/?l=linux-dvb&m=122781416815646&w=2.

Overview/Features

This device supports ATSC (i.e. OTA Digital TV) and analog NTSC.


Components used:

  • Philips TDA18271 (tuner & analog demodulator) ?
  • Auvitek AU8522 demodulator (A/D)
  • Auvitek AU0828 (USB bridge)

Photos

Photo of inside the device

Identification

Output of lsusb: 05e1:0400 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

The Windows device manager may list this device as simply "AUVITEK".

Output of dmesg

With the patch mentioned above, dmesg will report this output after plugging the device in:

 dmesg from 2.6.24 (working):
 usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
 au0828: i2c bus registered
 tveeprom 1-0050: Encountered bad packet header [ff]. Corrupt or not a 
 Hauppauge eeprom.
 hauppauge_eeprom: warning: unknown hauppauge model #0
 hauppauge_eeprom: hauppauge eeprom: model=0
 tda18271 1-0060: creating new instance
 TDA18271HD/C2 detected @ 1-0060
 DVB: registering new adapter (au0828)
 DVB: registering frontend 0 (Auvitek AU8522 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
 Registered device AU0828 [Hauppauge Woodbury]

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