Re: Digital tv time delays

Nomen Publicus wrote:

It's only a temporary problem. When owning a non DAB radio becomes a
hangable offense and everybody switches to digital, the beeb will just put
their clocks forward by a couple of seconds and everything will be good
again.

No it won't because DAB radios (and other digital reception receivers) all vary with their processing time. Try two different make DAB radios side by side tuned to the same station.

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Mark
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