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Ramruma
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BBC solves World Cup streaming delay

The BBC says it has worked out how to eliminate "streaming lag", which causes live TV to be delayed by several seconds when watched online.

Many online viewers of football's World Cup in the summer heard neighbours cheering goals they had not yet seen happen, because the online stream was a few seconds behind the TV broadcast.

BBC Research & Development said it has now managed to "eliminate" the delay.

However, its software is not ready to be rolled out to the public yet.


More at
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45499784
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Report Latalomne • September 13, 2018 7:58 AM BST
I read this this morning and was initially excited.  Then the more I thought about it, I imagine all they've done is reduce the delay to that already applied to digital TV transmissions?  Plain
Report dave1357 • September 13, 2018 8:57 AM BST
^Yes

The BBC said it found ways to create smaller segments that can be passed through the system more quickly. It said viewers of the resulting online streams would see action "at the same time as they would see it if they were watching on TV".

I would guess that they are only talking about HD anyway as this would require more data than the SD- betfair video.
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