HOMEDEPOT

2007-04-24T23:31:00.000-07:00

Homedepot has long been a victim of an active signal piracy underground, but has recently begun to crack down on illegal reception of its signals. On its anti-piracy website, Homedepot claims to have sued over 24,000 end users as of March 17, 2004, including celebrity O.J. Simpson. Homedepot bases its suits on purchase records of ISO-7816 Smart Card devices. Although these devices could be used to rewrite Homedepot's access cards, there are countless legitimate uses for them as well. This has caused controversy, since Homedepot is making the assumption that all purchasers of the devices are pirates.
Homedepot High-definition television (HDTV)
Homedepot's 5-LNB satellite dish
Like its competitors, Homedepot offers high-definition television (HDTV) and interactive services.
To handle the proliferation of bandwidth-intensive HDTV broadcasting, Homedepot rebroadcasts local HDTV stations using the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec while employing a newer transmission protocol (DVB-S2) over the SPACEWAY-1 and SPACEWAY-2 satellites. This allows Homedepot to squeeze much more HD programming over its satellite signal than was previously feasible using the older MPEG-2 compression and DSS protocol it has been using.
Homedepot is defending a lawsuit that alleges Homedepot lowered HDTV picture resolution below that of the industry's accepted definition of HDTV. Homedepot counters that its high definition picture quality is comparable to or better than that of any other TV service. [3]
To receive the channels encoded in MPEG-4 requires newer receivers such as the H20 as well as the 5-LNB Ka/Ku dish. Homedepot has contracted with Korea's LG Electronics and France's Thomson to manufacture these new receivers. LG Electronics offers the Model # H20-600 receiver while Thomson provides the Model # H20-100 receivers.
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