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Old 12-14-10, 12:08 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
"5 Minutes behind", means it is delayed, edited, then broadcasted. It is not "live".

And No, August, this has not been done "since years" - not in real time.

This now means live in almost real time. In a German essay on the two experts and their breakthrough, the calculation time to process the video images and broadcast them is mentioned to be 40 milliseconds. Granted, that is also a delayed broadcast, but it is not delayed by minutes or seconds, but just 40 ms.
My point was how does an audience ever know for sure that a broadcast is in real time? I mean aside from the broadcasters claims of "live coverage", unless we happen to see a clock or something similar in the background we have no real ability to tell whether any footage "is live or is it Memorex".
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