BT Sport - Launch of BT Sport Ultimate

I guess it's a toss-up between that and repeating stuff they've repeated (possibly multiple times) already.

Anyway, give it two weeks and they'll have more live matches than channels to show them on. Who'd want to be a scheduler, eh?

Coppa Italia's back on Friday and Saturday, with the second legs of the semifinals - the first legs having been played back in February. The final is next Wednesday evening.

Well that's the closest we are getting to the Olympics this year.

Apparently the first time anyone's made an AFL show outside Australia.

Footy is back!! Join me this Thursday from 10:15am on @btsportfootball as we launch into @CollingwoodFC vs @Richmond_FC.

We'll hear from @tcotchin9, @Adamcooney17, @camluke and @JackHeverin!

UK and Ireland, it's time to make @AFL history.#GoPies #gotiges pic.twitter.com/KpB5Yzi884

— Ollie Geale (@OllieGeale) June 9, 2020

Still not EPG'd yet,

Now featured, together with Turkish Super League matches as well.

Interesting comparisons made this afternoon on the BAY-BMG match with various platforms ....
UHD is one second behind HD
iPad is 35 behind HD
iPhone is 40 behind HD.

aren't those delays about par for the course?

BT using the world feed 'enhanced' crowd effects for all the Bundesliga matches where they're available this weekend - I think it's all the ones where Sky Deutschland are the host broadcaster.

Anything using HLS or DASH streaming over the internet (i.e. basically everyone these days) is going to have around 30s delay compared to live, as a starting point, due to the way the video signal is chunked into segments that are then reassembled by the player. The minimum delay is 2x the length of a chunk (which is normally around 10s), but the normal starting delay is between 3x and 4x. Delay will obviously increase whenever the stream is paused for buffering, meaning it's quite possible to be multiple minutes off the live source but still viewed as if live (this becomes an issue if there is a strict cut-off time for the feed, as it means people may miss content at the end of the stream because they have buffered a section of the feed).

DVB Cornwall's stats miss out the important detail of how he's watching each of the feeds, so it's difficult to make comparisons. Satellite feeds obviously incur a significant time penalty from being sent 22,000 miles away from the planet and back again.

I'd need to check a map, but I'm pretty sure Cornwall is less than 22,000 miles from London, as the crow flies.

This is true, but there were all sorts of reliability issues with using crows to deliver live television (dropped packets, buffering in the wind, border overspill etc.) so using satellites is now one of the preferred options.

To avoid any doubt, I mentioned UHD on BT Sport, the UHD channel is only available in full-time channel format via BTTV's IPTV service.