Thread: Television Delay on Cable?
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Old 12-03-2005, 16:28   #13
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Re: Television Delay on Cable?
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Originally Posted by ian@huth
When we had NTL DTV in the study and Sky in the lounge I could be watching a program in the study, walk downstairs and not miss a second of the programme if the wife had the same channel on downstairs. Why the difference between the two digital platforms?
NTL get the channels from three places. Most are taken off satellite, some are taken from digital terrestrial, and some come over fibre direct from the broadcasters.

In the latter two cases, NTL's pictures will be slightly ahead, as the signal doesn't have to make the 36,000 mile round-trip into space.

Regular analogue terrestrial will be a few seconds ahead of all of them though, for the reasons outlined by Ignition.
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