Where to Watch the Races ?

[Linny]

Cap OTB shows replays of 3 other tracks aside from NY and airs them as soon as possible post race.
Not sure about HRTV but TVG shows almost everything delayed.

[deltagulf]

also to as far as i know watching the raceses online are all on a delay. even on the radio. its at least a seven second delay.

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by Linny

Cap OTB shows replays of 3 other tracks aside from NY and airs them as soon as possible post race.
Not sure about HRTV but TVG shows almost everything delayed.

Not NYCTOB (channel 71). While NYRA is running you can't view other tracks. You can, SOMETIMES, gets the odds for the other tracks, however, on channel 73.

[Stall Mucker]

Without getting to technical: All signals today in the digital world are delayed for some length of time. Most of the time the viewer or listener doesn't realize.

Because of encoding and decoding the end result is delay. Delay times can vary. Many race track signals are sent (uplinked) to a bird downlinked and sent back up again and then sent back to the end user. With International signals this can happen several times. Example: As is sop, the Dubai signal is trans ocean fibered, uplinked to South Africa, graphics package added up;inked again, God knows what after that and the distributed to US sites who then may uplink again to other distributors. I lost count of the delay time already.

Streaming (internet) video with audio, and depending on the measure of quality (compression) intended for the presentation will further cause delay. I've seen this delay as much as 30 secs or more. I can reasonably measure delay by the number of sources at my disposal that I can monitor at the same time. For those of you at home watching 1 source the difference is not realized and It should not really matter. You're seeing the race.

Another example: assuming the track of choice simulcast coming to you is 1 to 4 secs delayed, then redistributed to digital cable (Time Warner) and you've got yourself another 8 or 10 or 15 secs more delay. Delay time depends on a lot of variables.
Why does delay time matter?
Race replays are another matter. Track agreements, state law. regulatory rule, politics, time constraints, producers call, Executive Producer's "friends" want to see something else. I've worked under all these conditions and more.

[the_fat_man]

Some of us are hung up on the lack of availablity of video system wide

others

are making issues over a few seconds worth of tape delay


any wonder why the tracks could basically give a **** about providing BETTER/ADDITIONAL service

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