Would work beautifully for real though. Damn those digital delays.
The lack of clock as part of BBC 1's pres package is nothing to do with digital delays.
Deja vu anyone?
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Indeed, I experience an almost negligible digital delay between BBC One London analogue and DSat nowadays. Was flicking between the two earlier and they were almost synced.
A digital delay can easily be overcome by playing out everything about 6 seconds early for DSat, timeshifting it about 3 seconds for Freeview and Cable, and then timeshifting it another 3 for analogue. A lot of work I know, but then all the platforms will appear as though they are synced to the same time.
A digital delay can easily be overcome by playing out everything about 6 seconds early for DSat, timeshifting it about 3 seconds for Freeview and Cable, and then timeshifting it another 3 for analogue. A lot of work I know, but then all the platforms will appear as though they are synced to the same time.
I love the use of the word "easily" in that sentence.
Why would you bother to do all that? What benefit would there be? It's been (on many, many occasions now) made very clear that digital delays are not the reason for the dropping of presentation clocks.
Also, between the signal leaving BBC NI until it gets back to a satellite dish is less than 2 seconds, not 6, pretty much the same as the Freeview transmission.
Not on my box it ain't. The decoding of it on all the Sky Digiboxes I've used take a few seconds. 5 or 6 seconds is the average. Also I'm not saying TV networks would do that, I'm just saying it's a way of syncing them if they really wanted to.