How will they get aLL the HD locals on?
"Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 12:06 AM
1/22/2008, you wrote:
>At 1/21/2008 04:46, you wrote:
> >You are right there is a big delay for locals on the small dish. This is
> >partly due to how they transmit that signal. Those local channels, at least
> >on DNet are sent from a point where there is a tower near the channels they
> >want to receive, usually at one of the local channel's studios, and this is
> >then sent by fiber telephone lines to Wyoming uplink station. I think the
> >telephone fiber probably leads to some of the delay in these signals. Seems
> >to me the local channels have the worse delays. At least from what I have
> >noticed. I believe the delay would be lessened some if they picked up the
> >locals thru satellite rather than fiber feeds. But, I realize many of the
> >smaller markets don't have sat uplinks to recieve.
>
>The delay may be simply the digitization. I receive analog OTA directly;
>my brother (about 15 miles away) watches the same OTA stations via
>cable. He receives the same station I'm watching delayed about 7 seconds.
>
>Bob
You are correct about the reason for the delay. Comcast (here in
Houston) carries a digital feed of all the stations they have in
analog & every one is delayed several seconds (both picture & in sync
sound) behind the analog feed. I've seen that at my dads house as he
has 2 analog sets & one connected to a digital box. It's the digital
box that has the delayed signal.
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