The pcHDTVTM HD-2000 Hi Definition Television Card is the first digital television card to be produced especially for the Linux video hobbyist market. Shipped with the open source multimedia player, Xine, the card provides a ATSC stream to the Xine mpeg2 decoder and playback. Priced at only $198.89 - order yours today.
The HD-2000 Hi Definition Television PCI Card is PCI 2.2 compliant card. The card receives NTSC and ATSC 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 Fusion 878A 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 NTSC Analog Television
- Upto 4 cards supported in a single system for recording and display of multiple programs.
- 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
- Accelerated Motion Compensation with Quadro 4 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
- Two TV antenna coaxal reception ports
- One stereo connection jack to sound card for analog TV
System Requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 1200Mhz or higher
- Linux Red Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 (with glibc-2.3.2-11.9)
- Sound card with S/PDIF support and external sound system.
- 256 MB RAM or higher
- CD ROM Drive
- One available PCI 2.2 5-volt slot
Currently the HD-2000 is NOT Microsoft compatible and is NOT supported in Windows 98TM, Windows 2000TM or Windows XPTM .
Card Specifications
- 2, 4, 8 and 16-VSB capable hardware, Currently only 8-VSB is supported.
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Back panel LEDs status indicators for signal lock and Reed-Solomon Error.
- 19.4Mbps 8-VSB (ATSC) transfer rate.
The product includes source code for xine-hd and modified xine player for the HD-2000 and the HD-2000 modified V4L video driver both under the GPL.