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by boppo1 1264 days ago
Aren't wifi and bluetooth just "radio that sends packets"?
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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.