[LEAPSECS] Celebrating the new year a few seconds late

[Brooks Harris]

On 2019-01-01 9:51 AM, Rob Seaman wrote:
>
> When quantum TVs hit the market you'll hear half of each individual 
> house cheering and the other half wailing.
>
> --
>
This may create a new phenomenon where everyone in the audience is both 
dead and alive. I wonder what clinical procedures psychology will 
develop for treating that condition?

> 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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