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Dan Hong
08-24-2004, 10:46 AM
Well golly gee. I was watching the gymnastics competition at the Olympics last night, and much to my delight (relief), there was a gigantic plasma screen shown behind the girls on the balance beam. Guess what...they had almost a full second of delay between the live performer and the plasma screen. I guess our little 2-4 frame isssue isn't because we have inferior equipment. Maybe it's because the physics of running a video signal through two or three or four processing units adds delay to the video. I'm sure the Olympics has access to the $500,000 Sony digital HD switchers. The VT3 is slightly less costly, and evidently just as efficient.

I'm still a believer.
Jim_C
08-24-2004, 10:53 AM
Actually the technology they have there is so sophisticated, what you were seeing on the plasma screen was actually real time. What we see on TV hasn't actually happened yet.

:rolleyes:
Jim Capillo
08-24-2004, 11:17 AM
Originally posted by Jim_C
Actually the technology they have there is so sophisticated, what you were seeing on the plasma screen was actually real time. What we see on TV hasn't actually happened yet.

:rolleyes:

Huh? :eek: ;) :p
essentricaudio
08-24-2004, 11:42 AM
Originally posted by Dan Hong
...they had almost a full second of delay between the live performer and the plasma screen. I guess our little 2-4 frame isssue isn't because we have inferior equipment.

I noticed this also, it was driving me nuts, and I was not even at the event! I don't suppose this is going to make life any easier when someone complains about IMAG being "weird"... I have found that telling them "it's just your eyes" or "we do that on purpose so we can edit the pastors comments on the fly..." goes a lot further than a technical explination.
SCS
08-24-2004, 02:08 PM
Originally posted by Jim_C
Actually the technology they have there is so sophisticated, what you were seeing on the plasma screen was actually real time. What we see on TV hasn't actually happened yet.

:rolleyes:

And don't forget to add in the Satellite's delay on top of that... (I wonder how far their streaming is out?).