Racing UK.

ramtha

Hi. BBC and Channel 4;s horseracing pictures are faster in the uk than ireland. Recently in the uk their racing uk pictures have speeded up but remain slow in Ireland. Does anyone know if it would be possible to get the same speed pictures in ireland.
Can pay well.:)

Mossy Monk

What do you mean they are faster? We receive the same channel as the UK do.

ramtha

I just found out that the faster racing UK pictures are coming through virgin media and the faster bbc and C4 pictures come through terrestial so there's nowt i can do,is there?

Mossy Monk

There is nothing that can be done to change the speed of satellite broadcasting. The difference wont be big anyway, only a few seconds.

ramtha

2 seconds is HUGE. theres no way i can get virgin media over here with some fancy satelite dish?

Bogger77

ramtha wrote: »

2 seconds is HUGE. theres no way i can get virgin media over here with some fancy satelite dish?

not unless you run your own cable from the UK, to get TeleWest/NTL (ie the old name for Virgin media)

watty

The satellite is a 45,000mile round trip per hop. Sometimes a feed satellite is fed with Outside Broadcast and then that comes to groundstation that feeds the DTH (Direct to Home) satellite.

Also Digitisation & decoding to analogue adds delay. So a local analogue signal is a couple of seconds faster.

ramtha

ok. Thanks all.

L1011

Certain Sky boxes are significantly faster than others, but you will not beat UK domestic cable.

If this is for in running betting, you'd be better off looking at getting a decent internet connection, anything wireless is going to be costing you .5/1sec in latency at times.

ramtha

Is it possible to find a faster sky box.Can they be tested or anything?
I know somebody in ireland that sayes his pictures have speeded up via sky but i;m sure mine are the same.

L1011

ramtha wrote: »

Is it possible to find a faster sky box.Can they be tested or anything?
I know somebody in ireland that sayes his pictures have speeded up via sky but i;m sure mine are the same.

Newer boxes will be faster than older pones, in general. What make and model box do you have (its written on the sticker on the bottom).

watty

I think the main difference is the menu speed, not so much the video/audio delay?

ramtha

amstrad drx550.

Mossy Monk

ramtha wrote: »

2 seconds is HUGE.

No it's not.

ramtha

Sorry mossy. I hope i did;nt sound smart or cutting when i said that but there is such a constant drama with these pictures and 2 seconds means a lot in horseracing.
ATR gave us fast free pictures for a while that were the same speed as SIS(a specialist racing channel)which charges 7 grand sterling and a 3 year contract for their pictures. The pictures soon mysteriously dissappeared and the head of ATR refused to awnser any questions to the main racing paper.just refused.in this day and age.
There are numerous internet type betting exchange shops in the uk that charge betwen 20-35 a day to use fast pictures and they are none too happy with home users now getting half the tracks at the same speed at home from ruk but they;ve only been there a week so something will probably happen there too.

denis1501

Mossy Monk wrote: »

No it's not.

2 seconds is an awful lot when you're betting in running in a sprint m8!
regards
D.

Mossy Monk

Sorry m8, go to the bookies if you are so worried about 2 seconds m8 :rolleyes:

L1011

watty wrote: »

I think the main difference is the menu speed, not so much the video/audio delay?

My Pace 2500 is a good second out of step with my Pace DS430N. Its slower to begin the decode of the channel too, and that lag stays there.