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

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Jan 2 08:19:34 UTC 2012


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.

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