I bought a 2nd smaller telly last weekend (Hisense 40 inch A4G) and this weekend I’ve had it in my loungeroom (normally sits in the bedroom)… It’s very light so it’s easy to move around.
So I did some estimations on lags between the different signals of metro and regional broadcasters that are receivable in my area (Sydney, Newcastle/Sugarloaf, Lake Macquarie/Belmont North and Central Coast/Forresters Beach).
As for ABC and SBS there was very little difference time wise between the 4 sets of signals.
It gets a bit more interesting with the commercial broadcasters however.
Seven Network
VHF 6 Artarmon - has the ‘earliest’ signal
UHF 42 Central Coast - probably about 0.3 secs behind
Nine Network and 10 Network have very similar results to Seven’s.
Prime 7
Interestingly, all of UHF 35 (Newcastle), UHF 32 (Belmont North) and UHF 46 (Central Coast) looked to be almost perfectly in sync.
The other interesting fact is that all Prime7 signals are now only about 0.5 behind Artarmon… Prime used to the slowest by a long way (as much as 23 seconds when their playout was in Canberra, this dropped to about 5 seconds when they first moved to Media Hub).
They appear to have a smaller lag than even 9NBN, despite the latter also being O&O and also based at NPC.
9NBN
Was about 1 second behind Artarmon. All Newcastle, Belmont North and Central Coast signals were pretty much in sync.
WIN / 10
Newcastle about 6 seconds behind Artarmon, so is now the slowest of the regionals.
The interesting thing for me was that their Central Coast feed was slightly ahead of Belmont North, which was about another 0.7 second behind Newcastle. I had assumed both Central Coast and Belmont North were being fed off air from Newcastle.
