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Sky sports - is the picture on sky digital seconds behind ntl analogue?

  • 04-08-2006 11:53am
    #1
    Superhands
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭


    does anyone know if sky sports on ntl cable (analogue) is the closest to live?

    i suspect sky digital and ntl digital are perhaps 2-3 seconds delayed compared to the analogue signal

    does anyone know anything about this?

    reason i ask is i like to listen to radion commentary during matches, and as radio is always practically perfectly live (no delay) it can be annoying watching a delayed picture on the TV if the radio commentator is 3 seconds ahead


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  • #2
    KdjaCL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,346 ✭✭✭✭KdjaCL


    Yup they are , i have a tv in kitchen with ntl and main room has Sky.

    It happens on all channels not just SS, even RTE.


    kdjac


  • #3
    Superhands
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭Superhands


    i noticed RTE on NTL analogue was behind RTE on sky digital during the world cup

    would go from one room to another and hear the same couple of sentences of commentary again

    wasn't sure if sky sports was the same though - you definitley think SS on ntl analogue is ahead of SS on sky digital?


  • #4
    Michael Collins
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 1,852 Mod ✭✭✭✭Michael Collins


    Superhands wrote:
    ...you definitley think SS on ntl analogue is ahead of SS on sky digital?

    Yep, in my experience all the channels on Sky are behind their analogue equivalents, although I'm not sure about during the World Cup as I never used analogue (no widescreen) so it could very well have been different...

    The lag for the signal to come from a geostationary satellite would be on the order of a second or so, and I'm sure there's other things like MPEG2 compression etc that requires a few seconds of video to be buffered too...


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