[dtgriscom]

> the satellite system provides appreciably lower latency than distribution over the internet

Is that true? Round trip to/from geostationary satellites is about 240ms.

And, with most stations using HD encoding, which adds 8 seconds to the transmission delay, any network latency isn't going to be that important anyway.

[throwaway173738]

It’s not about the latency between when words are spoken and when they’re heard, it’s snot when a packet is sent and when it’s received. There’s a lot of jitter and you really don’t want intermittent drops to cause people to miss parts of your programming.