You can't even get two TV's in the same house in sync with Dish Network !!
The smaller TV in the kitchen gets the feed about a second before the big set in the living room !! Must be all that delay in the cheap coax they use !! 73, Dick, W1KSZ -----Original Message----- >From: "J. Forster" <j...@quikus.com> >Sent: Jan 1, 2012 10:14 PM >To: "David I. Emery" <d...@dieconsulting.com> >Cc: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] US New Year countdown - accurate? > >I was referencing anything to an external, local reference. My comment was >the time difference between the FOX on screen timing and the ball dropping >fireworks. Presumably, the on-screen timing was inserted at their local >control center in NYC, not after satellite hops. > >-John > >============ > > >> On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 05:54:46PM -0800, J. Forster wrote: >>> To me the ball drop/fireworks was different from the on-screen time on >>> FOX >>> by a few secnds. >> >> I was watching the media pool HD satellite feed on AMC-1 and >> through a broadcast grade IRD (ex PBS Bitlink ) it appeared to be about >> 2 seconds slow relative to my house NTP timing. This would about >> exactly match what I would expect for uplink encoder, satellite path, >> and decoder delays. >> >> I would expect a TV station using that feed might add anywhere >> from 1-6 seconds to the delay in their internal processing to OTA... and >> a digital cable system might add further delay to that (couple of more >> seconds at least). >> >> Real time TV these days is only RELATIVELY real time. >> >> >> -- >> Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, d...@dieconsulting.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass >> 02493 >> "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten >> 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - >> in >> celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now >> either." >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.