Is live tv actually live?
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No - but then again you don't see anything "live" as it takes time for light to reach your eyeball and register in your brain even if you are there. It's just a bit longer on live TV.
Of course it is...unless you're watching replay.
But if you're watching digital tv signal...please not that there can be a delay for the encoding to take place. usually 1-2 second delay.
Live just means that it has not been pre-recorded and rebroadcasted like most sitcoms. Live doesn't necessarily mean real-time. There is up to a 10 second delay because of encoding, decoding and also for the case of wardrobe malfunctions, profanity, etc that the FCC would not like. This allows a live editing crew to make any bleeps.
These days most programs are steering away from true live programs because of past incidents. Too unpredictable.
Not often they cannot risk live programmes incase of trouble with guests etc they are pretaped to exclude any mistakes
in a word, yes, it does state on the screen when live tv is being broadcast.
No, live television has a government mandated 15 second delay. This allows for cut in and beeping out of content. In local TV in NYC some of the channels had shown people jumping on 9/11 they didn't mean to at first but the directors and editors where so shocked that they didn't have time to react within the 10 seconds they used to give.
Technically no but to you it is unless your there you would not know the difference. All "Live" tv broadcasts are transmitted on a 7 sec delay. This gives the wonderful sensors time to Bleep out curse words and such. Some times the guy on the Bleep button is sleeping and a word or two will get through. But yes live tv for all intensive purposes is live. Some parts of that live broadcast may be prerecorded. The Donald trump show "The Apprentice" just had a Live season finally from the hollywood bowl. Some parts of that show were pre recorded and then incerted into the live broadcast. But it was live you saw it as it happened just 7 seconds later. Here is the exception. Many times a Live show on the Coast, like the david Lettermen show or Saturday night "live" are on at 1130 NY time. Now with the 3 hour difference it would only be 8:30 in La. So CBS & NBC in LA record the live broacasts and plays them back at their scheduled time slots in La. In that case you should see on the screen recorded earlier. Nice thing about doing Live broadcasts like the Apprentice from La is when its 9 pm in NY its only 6pm there so when the show is done brodcasting at 7pm La time its still early enough to go to dinner after the show. People in La could have gone to the Hollywood bowl to see the show but if they went home they would see it played back 3 hours later and it would still say "live" from LosAngles in the beginning. I hope now you are not totally confused. You should be a video engineer who has to keep all the shows in the right time slots nationwide. By the end of the week you have no clue which end is up.
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