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

[David I. Emery]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 11:57:55AM -0500, W4wj at aol.com wrote:

> FYI...  NBC advances their video feed, so that it arrives out of  the
> station receiver on time.

	Several nets do this - of course useless when real time events
are being televised... as the delays are still there, all this means
is the schedule time base (station breaks, commercial slots etc) is
on real time at some point in the chain, doesn't of course make the
ball drop on time out of the IRD... unless they drop it early.

> Another FYI...  NBC video delivered over Dish Network are  delayed
> 14 -15 seconds...  all that processing between the TV station
> Dish/DirecTV receive site and the consumer!!

	Much of the delay here is due to absolutely maxing out the
quality per unit bandwidth of the oversubcribed lower than ideal bit
rate video... they way they get so much stuff on those transponders
is very very carefully optimized variable bit rate video, which of
course works best with really deep buffers to look ahead for scene
changes and motion and optimally up the bit rate for just those.



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