>"If you talk about the next FIFA World Cup or next Winter Olympics I think we will have a 1.5 second latency," Mohite says. "But getting it to zero is going to take another two to three more years of time."
We know there is a roughly 5 to 6 seconds delay from Real life to TV Broadcast. ( Or may be from Betting company to TV Broadcast ) [1]. Which should have been enough time for OTT to catch up to OTA. Assuming if they could allow OTT to have 1.5 second head start of OTA.
And to be honest I am very much surprised how unprepared all these OTT players were ( If you live in a country that was well prepared and offer low latency streaming, please forgive me ). As if they just discover 30+ sec delay in OTT delivery is going to be a big problem in World Cup. And this isn't as complicated as a Low Latency Live Streaming to Worldwide audience which requires much more complicated Edge and POP measurement and design, they are basically streaming to audience within their broadcasting right which is all regional.
I have a hard time understanding why we cant do sub 8 seconds delay delivery today ( Compared to TV, not real life ). I think this is mostly due to manager and marketing department decide to throw in OTT as an added features for their customers to enjoy / upsell their package in the last minutes without fully considering, investing and testing their tech. We should have been aiming for 1.5 sec this World Cup. Not Next.
P.S - I do agree with another comment about OTA broadcast. I just wish our phone could receive those signal without much compromise. Instead it seems the world is moving towards IP based everything.
I watched the England semi final on a pub outdoor TV with approx 1.5 second discrepancy in latency between screens in different areas of the courtyard (no idea of the technical setup which achieved this). Learning the outcome of a shot/cross just as you watch the ball being struck is particularly weird (quite fun when a free kick is scored, arguably worse than a longer lag the rest of the time as there's little mystery about when/how something will happen)
It would be odd if the same pub had more than one satellite/cable connection, so that's presumably to do with different decoders inside each TV. But 1.5 seconds is a long time!
We know there is a roughly 5 to 6 seconds delay from Real life to TV Broadcast. ( Or may be from Betting company to TV Broadcast ) [1]. Which should have been enough time for OTT to catch up to OTA. Assuming if they could allow OTT to have 1.5 second head start of OTA.
And to be honest I am very much surprised how unprepared all these OTT players were ( If you live in a country that was well prepared and offer low latency streaming, please forgive me ). As if they just discover 30+ sec delay in OTT delivery is going to be a big problem in World Cup. And this isn't as complicated as a Low Latency Live Streaming to Worldwide audience which requires much more complicated Edge and POP measurement and design, they are basically streaming to audience within their broadcasting right which is all regional.
I have a hard time understanding why we cant do sub 8 seconds delay delivery today ( Compared to TV, not real life ). I think this is mostly due to manager and marketing department decide to throw in OTT as an added features for their customers to enjoy / upsell their package in the last minutes without fully considering, investing and testing their tech. We should have been aiming for 1.5 sec this World Cup. Not Next.
P.S - I do agree with another comment about OTA broadcast. I just wish our phone could receive those signal without much compromise. Instead it seems the world is moving towards IP based everything.
[1] https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/beating-the-broadcast-delay-...