On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 15:33, Daniel R. Tobias <[email protected]> wrote: > > A lot of Americans synchronize their new year celebrations to the > drop of the ball in Times Square as seen on TV, which means they > celebrate a few seconds late because digital TV has an inherent delay > to it (for signal encoding or something... I really don't know the > technical details).
You used to hear that during major sports events as well -- there'd be cheers coming up from various houses, then an echoing cheer a little bit later when those who had digital rather than analogue TV saw the goal. _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist6.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
