I finally found an ATSC demodulator chip with a datasheet.

The TI TVP9900

Claims to exceed A/74 and have "Superior Multipath Performance
Demodulating for Brazil Ensembles A Through E".

Supports "smart" antennas.  (I'm not convinced that smart
antennas are worth bothering with.  Every tuner would need
its own antenna, and it sounds like the antennas aren't that
great.  But hey, having support for it is better than not
having it.)

US$6 in quantity "1ku" (does that mean 1000?)

http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tvp9900.html
http://www.digitaltvdesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml?printableArticle=true&articleId=199701903

I was hoping the datasheet would tell how to get the coefficients
being used for the equalizer taps, but it doesn't appear to even
mention them.

I can't find much on sibling chips TVP9007 or TVP9010.
It appears that the TVP9007 includes a mpeg decoder.

It looks like it would be fairly straightforward to build an
antenna-to-Ethernet box.
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