Re: In praise of 'steam radio'
Matt Carey <[email protected]>
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On 3 Feb 2009, at 4:10, Matt Patterson wrote: > > The problem is more pronounced with 'Pause Plus' and similar radios > which let you 'pause' live radio. What they do is store the digital > signal in RAM, and they typically have a 15 second (or thereabouts) > long buffer which they have to fill first, so you get a really delayed > signal with them. I used to get the same problem with my Virgin HD+ hard disc recorder. The TV signal for that used to be a few seconds behind an old analogue set we had. It was buffering a few seconds of signal so it could deal with me pausing live TV. Interestingly, BBC HD was about 10 seconds behind that. Most probably due to the huge amount of data being shuttled around! Matt ___________________________________________________________________ Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe For all Information Design matters: http://InformationDesign.org Problems? Write to: [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________