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

[Magnus Danielson]

On 01/02/2012 09:19 AM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message<E6062910437A40A1BD2BDA3F034A4AD1 at narvik>, "David J Taylor" writes:
>>> 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
>>
>> .. or a simpler decompression algorithm, or faster processor....
>
> Most likely the TV with the larger display buffers more in order to
> be able to interpolate in higher quality.
>

The small TV set in the kitchen might be CRT while the big one in the 
living room is LCD (or any similar flat screen), and for the later 
double-buffering (or more) is employed as standard. These new screens 
are "slow" and create tons of artefact with standard definition TV or 
just the wrong rate.

Doing low-delay uncompressed transmission across countries, continents 
or between them is all at vain, when the flat-screen comes into the 
loop. It is often impossible to disable it.

Cheers,
Magnus