[LEAPSECS] Celebrating the new year a few seconds late

[Philip Newton]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 at 15:33, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> A lot of Americans synchronize their new year celebrations to the
> drop of the ball in Times Square as seen on TV, which means they
> celebrate a few seconds late because digital TV has an inherent delay
> to it (for signal encoding or something... I really don't know the
> technical details).

You used to hear that during major sports events as well -- there'd be
cheers coming up from various houses, then an echoing cheer a little
bit later when those who had digital rather than analogue TV saw the
goal.