[LEAPSECS] Celebrating the new year a few seconds late

[Rob Seaman]

When quantum TVs hit the market you'll hear half of each individual
house cheering and the other half wailing.

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On 1/1/19 7:36 AM, Philip Newton wrote:
> 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.
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