The pcHDTV™ HD-3000 Hi Definition Television Card is the most popular and best supported next generation digital television card available and is specially designed for the Linux OS. Each card is shipped with a custom HDTV version of Xine Media Player to provide playback on your computer monitor or even TV if the computer is connected to one. Also, the popular Linux media center project, MythTV, includes complete support for the card and its HDTV support was designed around pcHDTV HDTV cards.

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The HD-3000 Hi Definition Television PCI Card is an universal PCI 2.2 compliant card. The card receives NTSC, ATSC and Cable/QAM Signals and converts them to digital streams which are transported across the PCI bus. Display and MPEG2 decoding are done on the host computer in software and displayed on the computers monitor. The pcHDTV Hi Definition PCI card is based on Oren Semiconductor's ATSC receiver chip and Conexant's CX23883 NTSC receiver chip providing excellent HD and SD reception.

Key Features:

• Cost effective ATSC/NTSC TV reception card
• Open source drivers and player
• All-software HDTV decoder
• Supports all 18 ATSC compliant digital formats
• Supports unencrypted QAM 64 and QAM 256 Cable signals
• Supports NTSC Analog Television
• Up to 4 cards supported in a single system for recording and display of multiple programs.
• Compatible with the HD-2000 card.
• Digital Video Recording, Time Shifting and Playback
• Accelerated HDTV support with nVidia video cards.
• Accelerated IDCT and Motion Compensation with GeForce4 Mx cards
• Accelerated Motion Compensation with GeForce4 TI cards
• Selectable Weave or One Field de-interlacing for interlaced formats
• Command line support for station scanning
• Command line support for station signal strength
• Command line support for recording.

Input/output

• One RF TV antenna coaxal reception port
• One SVIDEO input port
• One composite video and sound port
• One stereo connection jack to sound card for analog TV System

Requirements

• IntelR PentiumR 1200Mhz or higher
• Linux Kernel 2.4.26+ (2.6.12+ highly recommended)
• Sound card.
• 256 MB RAM or higher
• CD ROM Drive
• One available PCI slot Currently the HD-3000 is NOT supported in Windows 98T, Windows 2000T or Windows XPT however Windows drivers are include for those wishing to experiment with the card in Microsoft Windows.

Card Specifications

• 2, 4, 8 and 16-VSB capable hardware, Currently only 8-VSB is supported.
• 4" high by 5" wide profile
• 19.4Mbps 8-VSB (ATSC) transfer rate

The product includes source code for xine-hd and modified xine player for
the HD-3000 and the HD-3000 modified V4L video driver both under the GPL.