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by LeoPanthera 1260 days ago
You know, before wifi and bluetooth we had this amazing technology designed to transmit audio through the air with zero latency.

It was called "radio".

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Aren't wifi and bluetooth just "radio that sends packets"?
Sure, but you can't play begin to play the sound until you have enough bits that you can decode what was sampled, and that always means you have to wait at least a couple of milliseconds. Conventional analog radio allows you to play out the modulating waveform with sub millisecond delay.