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Wow, impressive! I'm waiting for the day where my internet stream is 'Live' like my television is 'live.'
by ericzawo 10y ago
Wow, impressive! I'm waiting for the day where my internet stream is 'Live' like my television is 'live.'
- daenney 10y agoThough not imposed by the technology most of your live TV isn't actually live. There's a thing known as the broadcast delay or the seven seconds delay that a lot of broadcasters use to beep out profanities or do live subtitles and other alterations.
- ramy_d 10y agoI did a cursory search out of curiosity: TV has a 7 second delay they add themselves to filter content. The broadcast itself is pretty much instant. It's impressive.
- mikeryan 10y agoDepends on Delivery mechanism as well. Interestingly if you put a TV using cable next to a TV using satellite the satellite TV will trail cable by 2-3 seconds sometimes just from the amount of time to bounce the signal off of satellites.
- jonknee 10y agoThe actual round trip time to the satellite and back is about a quarter second.
- birdman3131 10y agoI work for a church that does live broadcasts. We see about a 3-5 second delay on OTA and about a 4-6 second delay on cable. We are tied to the tv station by a fiber line and they are only a block or so away.
- ramy_d 10y agointeresting!