On Thursday, 26 September 2019 11:12:47 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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ss wrote:
We were both watching PM question time tonight (wed)
Me on my desktop and she on laptop.
Desktop has cable connection, laptop wifi.
The desktop was running about half minute behind the laptop.

How come, I would have thought both would be running at the same time.

Is this normal?

Nothing digital is ever 'live'. You could argue that analogue ain't either
since the best it can manage is approaching the speed of light.

well it does depend on what you mean by 'live' as with most things.
Most of us know what we mean when it's said that we go live to...
and I doubt you'd get very far complaining to the advertising authorities.

So you need some clue as to what a person meant by saying live.
My HD channels seem to be slightly less 'live' than the SD channels, when switching they appear to be about 1 word behind, but that could also be the media box or the TV.

It;s like any subject unless yuo understand the context you get confused about the terms and terminology, simialr to so many things including IDing a duck, it not always as simple as it seems.


And your own computer will introduce even more delay in the chain.

and the further you sit from the screen the longer the delay too :-)