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Originally posted by Alky
so your saying live tv from the other side of the world isnt live? im talking more then a few seconds...
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I have a C-band big dish. The small dish and cable companies get their signals from a big dish (first generation signal), compress them, send them back up to
their satellite transponders then they come back down to you (2nd generation signal). I have had my big dish and a small dish or local channel on the same program and there is
always a delay between first and 2nd generation signal. It's only a few seconds on some channels but on most it's generally 5-10 seconds delay. So to answer your question, if you are watching a live show on a small dish or cable you are actually watching probably 5-7 seconds ago.