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pcHDTV HD-5500 Tv Tuner
Digital TV
ATSC
HDTV
QAM tuner
Analog VideoIn
Win95? Win98? Win2K? WinXP?
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PCI $130 0.0/10
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Description (from the manufacturer site)
The pcHDTVTM Hi Definition Television Card is the most popular and best supported 5th generation digital television card specifically designed for the Linux OS. The HD-5500 is a low profile universal PCI card and is shipped with a custom HDTV version of Xine Media Player to provide playback on your computer monitor. The popular Linux media center project, MythTV, includes complete support for the card and it's HDTV support was disigned around pcHDTV HDTV cards.

Due to the new design the HD-5500 cards are now priced at only $129.00 and volume discounts start with just 2 cards for a $5.00 savings on each card or $10.00 on 5 or more cards.

The HD-5500 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 HD-5500 Hi Definition PCI card is based on the 5th generation LG ATSC receiver chips and Conexant's CX23883 NTSC receiver chip providing excellent HD and SD reception.

Key Features:

* Open source drivers and player
* Cost effective ATSC/NTSC TV reception card
* 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.
* Low profile universal PCI card
* Latest LG 5th generation tuner for enhanced reception
* Compatible with the HD-2000 or HD-3000 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 TV antenna 75 ohm reception port
* One S-Video input port
* One stereo connection jack to sound card for analog TV

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Analog VideoIn = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input
Video Card = If it is a Video Card/Graphic Card
Tv Tuner = Built-In TV-Tuner
Digital TV = Built-In Digital TV-Tuner
DV/Firewire = DV/Firewire/i.Link input
DV Converter = Analog composite or/and SVHS video input and converts to DV video
MPEG1 hardware = Capture directly MPEG1(VCD) video using hardware*
MPEG2 hardware = Capture directly MPEG2(SVCD and DVD) video using hardware*
MJPEG hardware = Capture directly to MJPEG using hardware*
MPEG4 hardware = Capture directly to MPEG4(DivX,Xvid) video using hardware*
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