Last week, Faultline reported that the FCC dispute over Silicondust’s HDHomeRun Flex tuner had escalated. Broadcasters under the Pearl TV consortium claim the device’s use of a Huawei-affiliated chip prevents it from accessing DRM-protected ATSC 3.0 signals—claims which Silicondust has refuted as defamatory, while accusing broadcasters of attempting to use ATSC 3.0 to illegally limit access to public airwaves. Since these accusations flared up, Silicondust has written a letter to the FCC detailing the results of a meeting between its own management and a panel of FCC representatives—presenting two possible resolutions to the dispute. The first proposed solution is to stop allowing DRM on public airwaves (by de-regulating encryption rules set out by the ATSC 3.0 Security Authority – A3SA). The second proposed solution is to apply DRM protection in…