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Re: DTV should focus on HDTV and lowering prices

said by vic102482 See Profile:

Latency and satellite will always be a problem, you are talking 26,000 miles round trip.
It's actually 22,000 miles one way, and 44,000 miles round trip. It takes about 250 milliseconds for a round trip, so considering the fact that the signal has to make two round trips for Internet access, the distance alone is adding 500 milliseconds. Then you have to include the time it takes for the data to get from the NOC to the server, and back. There's just no way of reducing the latency with geosynchronous satellites.

That being said, and me being a DirecTV customer, I was very glad to hear that they were re-purposing Spaceway to do HD.
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