Footbal delay

But sky or virgin its not good to do trading isnt it? But so, how the proffs can trade in UK if the only service is sky or virgin?

get a radio

everyone stopped playing when they messed about with the delay,8 -9 secs just a joke

newcastle local radio was approx 9 seconds ahead of tv for europa league game in russia

no goals were scored so i have no idea if the suspend would have been quick enough, but i guess
betfair dont get analog radio coverage of radio newcastle





i have a radio that can pick up some foreign games on medium wave

As for 8-9 secs is for us all,yes every one understands this.B ut since they in there wisdom changed from 5 to 8-9 every market has gone downhill,DO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS.Isuggest if you are clueless as to what the fastest connection is,forget it. DO YOU UNDERSTAND.

8-9 seconds is the only sensible delay on football.  Those who say otherwise are either:

1) happy to hoover
2) happy to be hoovered

So , what i have to do is waiting for that games in ITV... or betfair video or radio :(
Its sad. In another countries we have a lot solutions because there are some TV boxes without HD. so there isnt delay like here(england).

"8-9 seconds is the only sensible delay on football.  Those who say otherwise are either:1) happy to hoover2) happy to be hoovered"

Exactly.

Somebody just doesn't get it

9 second delay seems to be perfect

Mr.Angry     Joined: 05 Jan 11
Replies: 3798 03 Apr 13 18:58 
8-9 seconds is the only sensible delay on football.  Those who say otherwise are either:

1) happy to hoover
2) happy to be hoovered

You could argue you are being hoovered with a 9 second delay.  30 seconds to go in a match, I want to lay 1.05 on the result.  9 seconds later when my bet hits the market either

a) Nothing has happened and the true price is 1.03 but my bet gets matched at 1.05
b) A dangerous freekick is given, true price is 1.07, my bet may not be matched because the 1.05 backer cancels the lay.
c) Goal is scored after 5 seconds, my lay would have paid but doesn't because the market is either suspended or the backer has cancelled the back

So whilst in cases you'll pick up backers money a large delay isnt necessarily better

sky is mainly dish, Virgin cable.

Don none of the scenarios in your a-c, unless I misunderstood, are hoovering in the context of this thread, whilst all of course possible the main protection of the delay is preventing being hoovered after a goal but before the suspend.

Spanish football especially was/is notorious for this. I (and I'm sure I wasn't alone) stopped leaving money up in Spanish football solely because of this.

DonNo1 spot on, and I think this is why 8-9 seconds has become the standard delay. Its not just suspending for goals - 5 seconds should be long enough for most matches - but also to protect the market makers from people betting using radios or at the match when theres a free kick, breakaway etc.

but there is cable in Sky? im asking because in england there are a bad weather and sometimes tv be off.
And If sky use cable will be the same time delay virgin?

Tiagus – ShaneESP has already answered your question, Sky services come via satellite wheras Virgin comes via cable. If your Sky (satellite) pictures are affected by local weather then the Virgin should remain “up”.

I have both side by side so am able to compare – a few years ago, Virgin changed the way they received their Sky feed. Overnight they went from being a couple of seconds ahead to the current 1.7 secs (approx.) behind.

Both the systems I am referring to are Standard definition (SD). If you get an HD box from either Sky or Virgin you still have the option to watch it in SD which is ahead of the HD version.

Assuming you are just looking for the fastest readily available Sky Sports pics then get a Sky satellite dish and system installed and watch in SD.

There is the chance of occasionally losing your picture if there is a storm directly above you but this has only happened to me a few times over a few years and generally only lasts for a few minutes at most.

As far as I am aware, any box you get will have both SD and HD channels anyway – however, I can only speak from my own experience regarding the boxes I have. The best thing for you would be to check with them.

Another caveat – I spoke earlier about Sky sports being faster through a sky dish rather than Virgin but have no idea how the delays stack up through other platforms like BT Vision or TOPup TV. Perhaps somebody else has experience of these and can comment?