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    From JMB99@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 4 17:22:44 2024
    There was an interview a short time ago on BBC News channel with someone
    in Beirut.

    There did not seem any delay?

    Just wondering why not when you get a delay on interviews to people even
    if they in the UK.

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  • From Roderick Stewart@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Jul 4 18:16:44 2024
    On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 16:25:56 -0000 (UTC), Tweed
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    JMB99 <[email protected]> wrote:
    There was an interview a short time ago on BBC News channel with someone
    in Beirut.

    There did not seem any delay?

    Just wondering why not when you get a delay on interviews to people even
    if they in the UK.



    Prerecorded with the delays edited out?

    Maybe sometimes they use can cabled links but sometimes a satellite
    link is the only type available, or it's cheaper?

    Rod.

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  • From JMB99@21:1/5 to Tweed on Thu Jul 4 18:17:14 2024
    On 04/07/2024 17:25, Tweed wrote:
    There was an interview a short time ago on BBC News channel with someone
    in Beirut.

    There did not seem any delay?

    Just wondering why not when you get a delay on interviews to people even
    if they in the UK.


    Prerecorded with the delays edited out?


    I did wonder, it could easily have been pre-recorded and edited but not
    seen them doing it previously.

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  • From NY@21:1/5 to Roderick Stewart on Thu Jul 4 21:33:48 2024
    On 04/07/2024 18:16, Roderick Stewart wrote:
    On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 16:25:56 -0000 (UTC), Tweed
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    JMB99 <[email protected]> wrote:
    There was an interview a short time ago on BBC News channel with someone >>> in Beirut.

    There did not seem any delay?

    Just wondering why not when you get a delay on interviews to people even >>> if they in the UK.



    Prerecorded with the delays edited out?

    Maybe sometimes they use can cabled links but sometimes a satellite
    link is the only type available, or it's cheaper?

    The satellite delay to a geostationary satellite is only about 1/4
    second - 1/8 going up and 1/8 coming down to another part of the earth
    that is within range.


    About 36,000 km which 36 * 10^3 * 10^3 = 3.6 * 10^7 metres. Speed of
    light 3 * 10^8 m/s, so delay is 0.12 seconds one way or 0.24 seconds
    round trip.


    But "satellite link delays" seem to be much longer than that. I imagine
    most of the problem is digital encoding/decoding delays, which are going
    to be fairly constant no matter whether the signal is going by landline
    or satellite.

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  • From Mark Carver@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 5 10:21:35 2024
    On 04/07/2024 17:22, JMB99 wrote:
    There was an interview a short time ago on BBC News channel with someone
    in Beirut.

    There did not seem any delay?

    Just wondering why not when you get a delay on interviews to people even
    if they in the UK.


    Why would there be a delay ? It's all IP delivery over fibre. Do some
    pings to New Zealand, and they will probably be milliseconds, and not
    seconds. Any delay these days is not really distance related, it'll be
    other factors.

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