Why is my digital cable on a 2 sec delay?
11-22-06, 08:10 AM
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Why is my digital cable on a 2 sec delay?
from the analog signal which is brought up by my PIP, the digital signal seems to lag 2-3 seconds behind. Doers that seem odd to anyone?
11-22-06, 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by joeblow69
Do you have a DVR? I noticed both my moxi and my tivo did that.
11-22-06, 08:54 AM
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Supposedly the digital signal takes longer to transmit than regular cable. I'm sure it's more technical than that, but something like that.
11-22-06, 09:57 AM
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I've noticed it too, we'll have the Tv in our bedroom and the living room on at the same channel, and the one with the DVR will be a few seconds behind the other, and they're both digital.
11-23-06, 01:50 PM
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It's not a delay in signal speed, it's the delay in converting the signal once it hits the box... straight to tv is converted faster than through a normal cable box, which is faster than going through a DVR...
11-24-06, 12:44 AM
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Supposedly the digital signal takes longer to transmit than regular cable. I'm sure it's more technical than that, but something like that
Originally Posted by JM
Digital cable is MPEG-2 encoded then transmitted to your set top box, which then has to decode it. The delay is due to the encoding and decoding process.
11-24-06, 09:42 AM
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I'm not saying it bothers me, i just thought it odd. It's actually beneficial bc when I see something in PIP and then turn I don't miss the 2 seconds during the switch over.
