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Has 'BCN changed their way of broadcasting the game? Meaning it used to be in sync with the TV broadcast, but now it's off.
 
It could be your cable system. I live in the northeastern part of the state, but when I'm on the phone with people on Cape Cod, they're seeing the same show two or three seconds ahead of time.
I have Comcast, they have Adelphia.
 
Satellite TV is even weirder. Guess it takes awhile for the beam to hit the satellite and come back down, though in this day and age it should be simultaneous and instant. Also, it is quite strange seeing (or hearing) a play seconds before it is played again
 
I forgot about the satellite aspect. A friend of mine who has a dish (I have Comcast) would hate to be on the phone with me during a Sox game because I would cheer for a HR or gasp if something happened, before he saw it on his screen.
 
I don't know what's going on at WBCN, but the radio call was WAY off yesterday. I have Comcast DVR, and had to pause the game for at least 20 seconds to get it to synchronize with Gil and Gino.
 
For BCN I think you now 1/2 second of ISDN delay about 8 seconds HD delay and then they could also be running a profanity delay? Now in the Network TV world today who knows??
 
Varulven said:
Satellite TV is even weirder. Guess it takes awhile for the beam to hit the satellite and come back down, though in this day and age it should be simultaneous and instant. Also, it is quite strange seeing (or hearing) a play seconds before it is played again
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Joe it's that speed of light/sound and radio-wave thing that is still hard to beat no matter how much technology you throw at it. How fast could you get up to that satellite and back?
 
thanks, Johnny; but one would think even satellite company could find a way to take a local feed from the cable companies and beam it locally without sending it to Mars first.
 
Varulven said:
thanks, Johnny; but one would think even satellite company could find a way to take a local feed from the cable companies and beam it locally without sending it to Mars first.
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The reason ABC or these big TV networks pay millions of dollars to the NFL to broadcast all these games all around the country (and back to their home markets) is to insert their commercials, promos, league roundups etc. etc. The games are uplinked from stadiums all around the country back to network control centers then uplinked again to the network distribution birds. Then your local affiliates bring them down with cable companies, Direct TV and Dish Network all piling on after that point. You must also remember that next week your team will be on the road. The problem is your thinking locally on something that is part of a completely national (sometimes international) plan. Satellite is still their most cost effective way of handling this distribution. They really have no interest in making it easier for you to avoid their commentators or commercials locally.
 
I remember with '03 Sox postseason, since the games were on Fox, and not NESN, everyone couldn't stand listening to Tim McCarver LOL so with some prodding, the techs or engineers or whoever synced up the TV broadcast with Jerry and Joe.
 
You can only delay audio... you can't take it into the future. Now in the past this wasn't a big problem. Typically radio was in realtime or about a half second beyond that. This was usually less delay then what was involved in the TV signal path. Now a days that isn't always the case. If a radio station is in HD it's analog audio is delayed to be in sync with its digital audio. This is so the radios can blend back to analog in areas where the customer looses the HD signal. Now WEEI doesnt yet have to worry about HD but WBCN is using it. However I would think the Patriots Rock Radio Network stations that where not in HD wouldn't have this problem. In TV I'm not really sure how all the digital parts of their signal path today affect delay. And obviously regular season games in Baseball are much different from Football where the Network's run the whole show.
But the bottom line is only the person who is ahead can sync up with the one that is behind.
And then what TV medium do you assume they are watching on. Over the Air, Cable, Digital Cable, DirectTV, Dish Network??? All of these are in different times. So the best way to do this is do it by yourself. But again the first rule is important. You can only delay......
If its the TV you want to delay try a DVR
If its Radio you want to delay... get a digital delay or here is cheaper alternative.
http://www.sportsyncradio.com/
 
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