[time-nuts] US New Year countdown - accurate?

Richard W. Solomon w1ksz at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 2 05:33:00 UTC 2012


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" <jfor at quikus.com>
>Sent: Jan 1, 2012 10:14 PM
>To: "David I. Emery" <die at dieconsulting.com>
>Cc: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts at 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, die at 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."
>>
>>
>
>
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