On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Markus Kuhn wrote:
>
> All modern digital broadcast transmission systems introduce significant
> delays due to compression and coding. It is therefore common practice
> today that the studio clocks run a few seconds (say T = 10 s) early, and
> then the signal is delayed by digi
Ed Davies wrote on 2003-07-19 09:15 UTC:
> > When the scheduled transmission time
> > arrives for a packet, it is handed with high timing accuracy to the
> > analog-to-digital converter,
>
> I assume you mean digital-to-analog.
Yes, sorry for the typo.
> This also raises the point that because th
Markus Kuhn wrote:
> When the scheduled transmission time
> arrives for a packet, it is handed with high timing accuracy to the
> analog-to-digital converter,
I assume you mean digital-to-analog.
> ...
> [In fact, since short-wave transmitters frequently switch between
> programmes at the full ho
A recent visitor gave me a detailed account of a telecoms application
where UTC leap seconds can cause havoc, which I would like to share here
with you. In this example, the design ended up being vulnerable to UTC
leap seconds, in spite off the engineers being fully aware of all the
issues involved
