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Yes, the digital tv/radio process has an unavoidable delay of about 10 seconds compared to analogue, which was what killed radio-TV simulcasts like Roy & HG's calls of RL and AFL grand finals from their card table. Video over the internet adds more delay again, might be about 20s.
I'm sure you're right, but I don't remember watching Lions games on delay during that time other than those played on Friday night, which were fairly rare. My memory isn't what it once was though!
Honestly can't remember which night games - could well have been Friday nights only, but I thought it was Saturdays too. I mainly know the year because I lived in a share house in 2003 and I remember setting up camp in the rumpus room until after midnight.
The large screen viewing at The Gabba has a 1-3 second delay
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You're right though in that the 2012 deal was the first one that didn't actively withhold live games from Qld/NSW fans. The new deal is a slight step back but at least you can watch the games live for a price.
It has the advantage of being able to take the feed directly from the broadcast van outside the groundThe large screen viewing at The Gabba has a 1-3 second delay
It is a long way to and back from those satellites
I'd say it's pretty big deal if Qld and NSW stop getting all local team games live and on FTA. That was a big part of the push into our states. Start putting that behind a paywall or on a delay and you'll start losing some casual fans when they can't find the game or it starts going until 11:00pm or later on a Saturday night.
Hopefully our exposure is limited. We'll have seven games in that period, one of which will be on Easter Thursday night so on Seven, and it's expected we'll open the season in R0 on Thursday night as well, so fingers crossed it's 2-3 games max. We're a premiership team, play attractive footy and get great crowds, so we're a good chance of getting more Friday and Thursday night games.
The grand final is the only game I watch on FTA all year. So many ads, that it's an ad for Kayo/Foxtel in of itself. I don't think I'd be able to watch footy much outside my own team if I had to put up with that
Yes. And the two rights holders will have their own calling teams for all matches, even those broadcast by Seven. The trade off for Seven is that they'll be able to put their games on Seven+ live and on demand.
When I tried out the SEN Sync function during the season, I had to delay it by about 50 seconds using Foxtel Go.
I think it varies a lot by internet speed, ISP, service... A lot of variables
I once had a fascinating discussion with someone in TV who had a physics background. Essentially if there is a delay of 2-3 seconds, this basically means the signal is travelling around the world several times before it reaches the receiver.The large screen viewing at The Gabba has a 1-3 second delay
It is a long way to and back from those satellites
I imagine that arrangement will be maintained going forward, given that it's a government regulation that restricts "major" events to free-to-air television live exclusively.
Fun fact - a lot of pre-Starlink satellite communications used geosynchronous (positioned so they're always above the same point of the earth) satellites so they could always know there would be a certain number in view for reliability, etc. A geosynchronous orbit is about the same distance as the world's circumference at the equator (~35,000 km vs ~40,000+ km). So yes, if the coverage was beamed to one of those satellites and back to the HQ by a dish on a TV van - it was roughly the equivalent of going around the world twice.
It's remarkable how poorly his style translates to television. Or how much he's instructed to tone down his rhetoric. He's pretty good really on MMM. Worlds removed from Brayshaw
No, it was specifically put into the agreement that Foxtel/Kayo would be able to take the Grand Final live.
I'm sorry, I have clearly misremembered this aspect of the deal - the grand final is still excluded from being carried live on Foxtel/Kayo.
At light speed?
Well hopefully it's irrelevant to us... Because we're at the game!
Yeah the maths was pretty mind boggling. Points to layers upon layers of inefficiency being built up over the 60 years or so of television's existence.
