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On 2002-03-05 08:44, JayUtah wrote:
From Afghanistan the signal may have to make two satellite hops to get to Atlanta or New York. This is because there isn't any satellite that springs to mind which has both locations in line-of-sight. So an intermediate link in Europe is likely. Stream injection protocols apply at all sites. Then it must be sent back up to the distribution satellite so that your local cable company can pick it up. In the case of DirecTV and Dish Network, another satellite trip is required to get to their distribution satellite. Now the last two steps don't affect a conversation between the anchorman and his correspondent in Afghanistan.
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I have DirecTV and experience the satellite delay effect fairly often. I can have a tv show on a tv connected to the over-the-air antenna and have the same show in the satellite reciever. There's a 2 to 3 (sometimes 5) second delay in the satellite signal compared to O-T-A. I had to explain to my wife awhile back why this happens. She was at her cousin's house outside St. Louis watching the Rams play on the broadcast station. I was watching the satellite. While talking on the phone a really good play happened. I could hear the sound, but of course it hadn't shown on my tv yet. It took a good ten minutes to explain why I didn't see the play at the same time my wife did!
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: K. Hovis on 2002-03-06 08:05 ]</font>