In message <[email protected]>, "Daniel R. Tobias" writes:
>I just watched the ball drop in Times Square (on TV, not in person!), >and noticed that my watch (auto-synced daily via radio signal) was >about 15 seconds fast [...] In difference from analog tv/radio, digital transmission of broadcast signals almost begs to be delayed. For instance the MPEG encoder will delay the signal, to see if anything big comes up in just a moment, which it should know about in order to compress what it has right now. Similarly, the MPEG decoder, will buffer some signal, so that it will not stutter, should the transmission-chain hiccup. And as mentioned, there may be a "tape-loop" to bleep words that only your preschool kids can tell you what means. As for the phone: Sounds like a really bad use of voice-response kit. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
