The maker of a popular line of television digital video recorders (DVR) and a broadcast TV consortium are trading blame for an issue that is preventing some newer-model DVRs from being fully compatible with the NextGen TV broadcast standard.
In a letter sent to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) earlier this month, officials at Pearl TV said SiliconDust’s decision to use a chip made by Huawei in its HDHomeRun broadcast tuners and DVRs is the reason why the company has not secured the proper certification needed to decrypt certain over-the-air channels.