DELAYS IN LIVE BROADCASTS

To forum members, I found these posts on a a site. My question what is this about? is it of any significance for us?

question form poster
The racing being shown, comes from the UK, and local.

I can understand why the racing from overseas is 5 secs behind live, but, why is the local S.African racing, as much as 7 secs behind live ?

I can get a webstream of the SA racing, which is faster than that shown on Ch 232.

Isnt this a bit embaressing ?


what puzzles me, is that the same feeds, are being shown in the UK, 5 secs ahead of SA.

So, they have the extra delay, of sending the signal via satelite etc, and still the output is
well ahead of the local users.

There has to be a very inefficient leg somewhere in the SA process.

People prob think 5 secs isnt going to make the world of difference, but, to many gamblers/bookmakers, it is life changing.

answer received

BTW, there is a free to air satelite in the northern hemisphere, which has the feed, 4 secs ahead of local users.I presume there isnt one in the southern hemisphere - or if it is, its encrypted. If the feed was available as raw output, I would be happy to get a sat dish, and pick that up.

thanks for any replies.


f you can find out the name of that satellite you'll be able to check the status of that channel re either hemisphere on either (http)/www.lyngsat.com/ or other websites, or post here for assistance, but you're probably right in your first assumption - not much extra is available free this side of the world.

The northern satelite is

Intelsat 12 (IS-12) (45°E), 2010-12-29
TellyTrack (South Africa) is now transmitted Free To Air (11500.00MHz, pol.V SR:2960 FEC:5/6 SID:1 PID:512/650 English).

This has been there for at least 2 yr.

So,the europenas get a free to air feed, sig nificantly ahead of SA viewers.

The tellytack feed locally, is available on Intelsat 7, but its encrypted, probably becos of other multichoice content.

Intelsat 7/10 | Intelsat 7 | Intelsat 10 The EIRP values are for South Africa Intelsat 7 © Lyngemark Satellite, last updated 2010-12-30 - www.lyngsat.com/intel7.html Freq.
Tp
Provider Name
Channel Name
System
Encryption SR-FEC
SID-VPID ONID-TID
APID Lang. Beam
EIRP (dBW) Source
Updated 10970 H
tp A1 MultiChoice South Africa
DVB-S
Irdeto 2 30000-5/6
6144-136
6.5
South Africa
53-55 K Maluleke
100617

Yep, the IS 7 reference you mention is the normal DStv beam.

The IS 12 beam is as you say for North, for Europe only - can't help you here.
Interesting to note though if you look at the ...
(http)/www.lyngsat.com/intel12.html
(ignore brackets in red)
... version that there's an industry feed on 11.451 Ghz for S.A. (top of list) - no doubt part of the number of links I refered to, but you won't get access to that.